At DotActiv, we are committed to continuously enhancing retail operations with tools that simplify processes and improve efficiency. That’s why we’re thrilled to introduce Luna, our new planogram refresh automation tool. Luna is designed to manage and streamline your planogram management process, saving you time and ensuring your layouts are always up-to-date with minimal intervention.
Introducing Luna: Planogram Automation
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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.
What Makes Luna Special?
Luna operates behind the scenes, running 24/7 to automate your planogram updates based on schedules and rules that you define. Whether it’s updating product listings, adjusting facings, or integrating changes into your database, Luna takes care of it all – allowing you to focus on more strategic tasks.
No more manual adjustments or tracking down individual product changes; Luna ensures that your product placements are always optimized according to real-time data like Days of Supply (DOS), product availability, and market trends. Imagine a planogram that’s automatically adjusted every time a product is phased out or a new one is introduced, giving you instant first-mover advantage.
How Does Luna Work?
Luna takes charge of refreshing planograms based on user-defined rules. It pulls the latest planogram from the Import Utility, updates product listings, placements, and facings according to real-time data, and seamlessly integrates the refreshed planogram back into the system. Luna also handles the approval process, notifying relevant stakeholders when updates need to be reviewed, ensuring a smooth and efficient workflow from start to finish.
Luna’s Key Features:
- Automated Planogram Refreshes:
Luna updates planograms without user intervention, ensuring accuracy in product listings, placements, and facings. This ensures that your shelves always reflect the most relevant and profitable assortment, driving better sales performance and customer satisfaction.
- Customizable Rules:
You have complete control over how Luna operates by setting rules for product listings and facings adjustments. If you only want Luna to make minor adjustments or require approval for larger changes, that’s entirely up to you. For instance, if a change results in more than a 10% adjustment in facings, Luna can be set to alert your team for approval before finalizing the change.
- Approval Workflows: Approval Workflow:
Luna manages the approval process, alerting users when updates require their attention and facilitating the integration of new planograms into stores.
If any update exceeds your predefined thresholds, Luna will notify you or your team via email and in-app alerts, keeping you in the loop and ensuring every update aligns with your strategy.
- Scheduling Tasks:
Luna automates the scheduling of planogram updates, keeping them aligned with your current business data and rules.
- 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.
Limitations
Luna automates the refresh process, but it does not make decisions regarding product listings. These decisions remain in the hands of category planners and other users. Additionally, Luna’s scope is limited to planogram updates, and it does not perform broader market analysis or external data processing.
With Luna, DotActiv continues to innovate, bringing you the tools to automate your operations and maintain accurate, up-to-date planograms effortlessly. Luna transforms planogram management from a time-consuming task into a streamlined, efficient process, driving operational excellence across your business.
How to Set It Up?
Getting started with Luna is easy. Our intuitive wizard walks you through the configuration process step-by-step, allowing you to customize schedules and rules based on your specific needs. Whether you want daily, weekly, or monthly planogram updates, Luna ensures that everything runs smoothly in the background. Plus, the flexibility of the rule-setting process means you can tweak the system to match your exact requirements, ensuring Luna works just the way you want it to.
How Will Luna Benefit Your Business?
By automating the planogram refresh process, Luna helps you eliminate manual tasks, reduce errors, and ensure that your store layout is always optimized for maximum profitability. With Luna, you can react quickly to inventory changes, reduce excess stock, and ensure that the right products are always in the right place, leading to increased sales and better customer experiences.
Luna is just another way DotActiv is making category management smarter, faster, and more efficient. Start using Luna today to optimize your planograms with ease!
