At DotActiv, we’re constantly innovating to streamline retail operations and elevate the user experience. We’re incredibly proud to announce the release of two groundbreaking tools that will transform the way category management is done: Lola and Luna.
Together, they bring a new level of intelligence and automation to DotActiv’s category management platform, helping you optimize your operations like never before.
Introducing Lola: Your AI-Powered Data Assistant
Our latest AI-powered model, Lola, is designed to simplify your interaction with data, making information more accessible, accurate, and actionable. Lola is an AI-driven assistant, designed to provide instant answers and insights. Powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT-3.5 or 4, Lola helps you get the most out of your data by offering:
What is Lola?
Lola is an advanced AI assistant integrated within DotActiv’s software ecosystem, dedicated to assisting users by answering queries related to internal company data. It bridges the gap between users and their databases, providing a seamless interaction between you and your data by automating query resolutions. Whether you’re exploring sales metrics or navigating the DotActiv PowerBase, Lola is the key to unlocking insights without the need for technical expertise.
Lola’s Core Features Include:
- Data Access:
It retrieves sales figures, product performance, or any internal metrics through SQL queries based on your input.
- Documentation Retrieval:
Lola efficiently pulls articles and insights from DotActiv PowerBase, answering queries about system functionality and best practices.
- Conversational Intelligence:
Lola holds context during conversations, making it easy to continue asking related questions without starting over.
The Value Lola Brings
With Lola, you no longer need to sift through databases or manually execute complex SQL queries. Instead, simply ask your questions in plain language and get results quickly and accurately. This makes Lola essential for non-technical users looking for quick insights into performance metrics or internal documentation, saving valuable time and reducing reliance on technical resources.
- Ease of Access:
It simplifies data retrieval, making insights accessible to everyone, regardless of technical skills. - Efficiency:
Lola accelerates the process of extracting information, boosting overall productivity. - Future-Ready:
While already powerful, future versions of Lola will introduce automated data analysis, empowering users to gain insights even faster.
Using a token-based system, Lola gives you the flexibility to use its capabilities when you need them most. Plus, with future updates, Lola will become even more powerful, offering deeper data analysis, clustering, and forecasting capabilities that will revolutionize the way you plan and optimize your store.
Introducing Luna: Automating Planogram Management for Greater Efficiency
Luna, our latest automation tool, is designed to manage and streamline the scheduling and refreshing of planograms. Operating continuously in the background, Luna automates what was once a manual process, ensuring your planograms are always up to date with minimal intervention.
Luna is all about making your life easier by automating one of the most time-consuming aspects of category management: planogram updates. Luna’s automation capabilities allow you to:
What is Luna?
Luna is a server-side application that automates the refresh and scheduling of planograms within DotActiv’s ecosystem. While Lola focuses on AI-powered queries and data interpretation, Luna is dedicated to operational automation. By managing the planogram refresh process, Luna ensures that your product layouts are consistently accurate and reflect the latest data, all without requiring manual updates.
Luna’s Key Features Include:
- Automated Planogram Refresh:
Luna updates planograms without user intervention, ensuring accuracy in product listings, placements, and facings.
- Scheduling Tasks:
It automates the scheduling of planogram updates, keeping them aligned with your current business data and rules.
- Approval Workflow:
Luna manages the approval process, alerting users when updates require their attention and facilitating the integration of new planograms into stores. - Integration with Import Utility:
Luna pulls the most recent planogram from the Import Utility as a starting point, updates it, and returns the refreshed version for final implementation.
The Value Luna Brings
Luna’s automation capabilities reduce the manual effort involved in keeping planograms up to date. By automating repetitive tasks, Luna frees category planners to focus on higher-value activities while ensuring that planograms are always accurate and consistent across the retail network.
- Efficiency:
Automating planogram updates saves time, minimizes errors, and ensures your planograms always reflect the latest data.
- Consistency and Accuracy:
Luna applies predefined rules to update planograms consistently and accurately across all stores.
- Streamlined Approvals:
With built-in approval workflows, Luna accelerates the process of planogram validation and implementation.
- Scalability:
Whether you’re managing updates for a single store or an entire retail chain, Luna handles planogram refreshes at scale, ensuring consistency across the network.
Why Lola and Luna Together?
These tools work together to bring intelligence and automation to your store management processes. While Lola helps you make smarter decisions based on data and expert guidance, Luna takes care of the tedious work, ensuring your planograms are always up-to-date with minimal manual input. Together, they create a streamlined, efficient, and smarter way of managing your store layouts, product placements, and overall store performance.
At DotActiv, we’re dedicated to making your job easier and your operations more efficient. With Lola and Luna, the future of category management is here. Start exploring these tools today and take your store management to the next level.
