Solutions for Category Managers

Maximize Category Yield with Precision

Identify revenue leakage and optimize product placement to ensure every linear foot of your category is performing at its peak.

Your Challenges

Category management is strategic—but execution gaps, supplier disputes, and incomplete data turn strategy into guesswork.

Execution Black Box

You design planograms, but have no visibility into whether stores actually execute them. Compliance reports arrive weeks late—if at all.

Supplier Negotiations Without Data

Suppliers claim they deserve more space. You suspect they're underperforming. But without objective share-of-shelf metrics, negotiations feel like guesswork.

Manual Space Analysis

Calculating facings, linear space, and brand share across 200 stores means hours in Excel. By the time you finish, the data is stale.

Proving ROI to Leadership

Leadership asks: "Did the new planogram improve sales?" You have no systematic way to measure before/after performance or compliance impact.

How ShelfMind Helps

Turn planograms into strategic intelligence. Measure what matters. Negotiate with confidence.

Immersive 3D Inspection

Inspect every shelf with perfect physical fidelity. See exactly how X/Y/Z capping and orientations impact your linear space and brand visibility.

Hyper-Local Assortment

Overlay demographics and income data to identify micro-merchandising opportunities. Optimize pack sizes for urban students vs. rural families.

Predictive Sales Lift

Use AI to forecast the revenue impact of planogram changes. Identify high-value "What-If" scenarios before committing to store resets.

Revenue Opportunity Scoring

Assign real dollar values to compliance gaps. Prioritize execution fixes based on where the biggest revenue leakage is happening.

AI Adjacency Audit

Automatically validate merchandising logic. Ensure cross-sell strategies and competitive blocking are physically executed as designed.

Multi-Planogram Sync

Manage and compare different planogram versions within a single store view. Switch between modular layouts with zero data mixing.

Real Category Manager Workflow

How Sarah, a beverage category manager, uses ShelfMind to negotiate with suppliers and optimize shelf space.

1

Upload Q1 Planogram Set

Sarah exports 150 beverage planograms from Blue Yonder as a single PSA ZIP file. Upload takes 2 minutes. ShelfMind extracts and parses all files automatically.

2

Check Brand Share Allocation

Premium coffee supplier claims they deserve 30% share. Share of Shelf analytics shows they're getting 22% by facings and 18% by linear space across all stores. Data proves under-allocation.

3

Share Compliance Dashboard with Supplier

Sarah creates a read-only workspace for the supplier. They can see their exact placement, share metrics, and compliance across all locations. No manual reporting needed.

4

Renegotiate Agreement with Objective Data

Armed with objective metrics, Sarah negotiates revised space allocation: 28% share by facings. Both parties agree based on data, not gut feel.

5

Monitor Execution Compliance

After planogram rollout, Compliance Monitoring shows 89% adoption across metro stores but only 67% in regional. Sarah escalates regional execution issues to ops team with store-level fix lists.

Ready to manage categories with data, not guesswork?

Join category managers using ShelfMind to validate strategy, negotiate with confidence, and prove ROI to leadership.