Proprietary Automation
Tap into advanced, customized automation tools for efficient data management, planogram development and validation. Our proprietary solutions, refined over years, enhance performance and save you time and money.
SPACE + CATEGORY MANAGEMENT
Transform your space management approach
Meet changing consumer demands with best-in-class space and category management services, powered by extensive retail knowledge and actionable customer insights.
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Services
Advanced solutions to maximize efficiency
Today’s empowered consumers demand instant access to products and a seamless shopping experience. Our strategic space planning solutions balance consumer needs with operational efficiencies and localized insights to optimize your retail space, enhancing customer satisfaction and driving sales growth.
We help manufacturers and retailers create streamlined, effective store layouts that make products easier to find while catering to local preferences and in-market trends.
Planogram Development
Leverage automated, highly accurate planogram (POG) designs to speed up shelf placement, improve inventory planning and optimize product assortment.
Shelving Evaluation
Identify non-compliant POGs and uncover growth opportunities with automation-assisted validation, ensuring your shelves meet performance standards.
Space Analysis
Gain quick insights into store performance with tools evaluating departments, aisles, categories, subcategories, segments and regions.
Store Plan Development + Optimization
Create and maintain accurate store floorplans that reflect real-time layouts. Store-specific planograms track item-to-fixture relationships, enabling efficient space-aware assortment and better inventory planning.
Planogram Project + Surge Support
Expand your team’s capacity with expert Space Planners using advanced automation, delivering accurate planograms on time and within budget while ensuring control throughout the process.
High/Low-Resolution Image Capture
Capture low-res images and data for all brands in the category —national, regional, local, and private label—to ensure planograms are fully imaged and spatially accurate.
Virtual Store Environments
Test new product and category presentations in a virtual setting, reducing costs associated with physical lab setups. Conduct shopper research more efficiently and cost-effectively.
Custom Reporting
Tailor dashboards and reporting tools that align with your specific specific business objectives, tracking performance against KPIs over time.
Approach
Propelled by automation, underpinned by expertise
Save time and money with Acosta’s strategic, flexible and automated space management solutions, ensuring fast and accurate shelf placement without the need for costly in-house resources.
Deep Industry Insight
With an average of over 15 years of space management experience, our team becomes an extension of yours, proactively identifying sales opportunities wherever they exist. Combined with cutting-edge tools, we eliminate the need for in-house experts and expensive software.
Best-In-Class Analytics
Harness industry-leading tools and powerful automation to pinpoint actionable opportunities at the national, regional and local levels. Ensure your planograms meet shelving objectives, quickly assess performance across categories and develop custom scorecards to measure against your unique KPIs.
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“We take a consumer-centric approach to designing space and category solutions and strategies that maximize sales and optimize space. It’s because of our integrated data sources and proprietary automation tools that we can pinpoint substantial opportunity to better connect with shoppers and save our clients' time and money in the process.”
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Trusted by trusted brands
Experience matters. Our team of space and category experts come from manufacturers, retailers and agencies supporting some of the world's biggest brands. That’s why more than 100 retailers and manufacturers across channels trust us to build plans specifically for them.
Space + Category Management FAQs
Explore more about Acosta’s space + category management services with these frequently asked questions.
Why should I choose Acosta over building out or expanding our internal team?
Acosta’s associates are extensively trained in space management principles and advanced software. We invest in complex space planning tools and continually train our team on the latest industry trends, best practices and tools, so you don’t have to. Our customized proprietary automation tools save you time and money, allowing you to focus on growing your business.
We help brands develop growth strategies by identifying popular products, optimizing pricing, and filling any gaps in your offerings across retailers. We also assess products for potential discontinuation to streamline your product mix.
Our scale allows us to flexibly adjust resources based on your budget and objectives. We can build tailored, dedicated teams or simply supplement your team for surge project support, placing talent on-site, in hybrid settings, or remotely.
What automation tools do you use, and how do they save me money?
We utilize industry-leading tools for rapid planogram automation and leverage custom automation solutions for even greater efficiency. Our tools automate the planogram validation process, data management and cleansing, and reporting, reducing human errors and increasing speed. By automating repetitive tasks, we enhance productivity, speed to shelf, inventory planning, resets and assortment allocation.
This automation translates directly into cost savings. For instance, improved planogram accuracy leads to higher inventory productivity and lowers field execution expenses. Our unique approach automates both productivity tasks within the planogram and validation, data management and reporting outside the planogram, using a variety of data sources.
What industry tools and technology does your team use for space and category management?
We utilize leading space management software, including BlueYonder, Symphony, NIQ Opportunity Finder, and 345, alongside our proprietary space analysis and automation tools.
Additionally, our exclusive partnership with Pensa leverages patented AI and computer vision to create highly accurate views of retail shelf conditions, guiding shelf planning and in-store execution.
What sets Acosta apart from other space management partners?
With Acosta, you get strategic consultancy from trusted advisors backed by deep retail knowledge, comprehensive shopper insights and longstanding retailer relationships. As part of Acosta Group, you also gain access to a wide range of commerce-centric services.
