The Retail Decision Intelligence Playbook
A practical framework for moving from dashboards to decisions — how leading retail networks operationalise buying, allocation, markdown and transfers with AI.
Playbook · PDF · 24 pages
What's inside
This playbook distils how modern retail networks stop looking at data and start acting on it. It's the same operating model we deploy with Solya customers — written so your team can pressure-test it against your own stack.
- The decision inventory — a one-page method to list every recurring operational decision (buying, replenishment, allocation, markdown, transfers) and score each on value, frequency and current latency.
- From dashboard to decision — why reporting maturity doesn't reduce decision latency, and the four-layer model that does (connect, decide, act, show).
- Trust before automation — how to phase in "propose-and-approve" workflows and graduate them to auto-execution as confidence builds.
- The 90-day rollout — a week-by-week plan to get a first end-to-end decision running on real data.
Who it's for
Heads of merchandising, supply chain and retail operations who own the P&L impact of operational decisions — and the analytics leaders who support them.
Why it matters
Most retail teams have more dashboards than ever and decisions that still wait days for a human to reconcile conflicting numbers. This playbook is about closing that gap: fewer reports, faster decisions, and a clear audit trail behind every one.
More resources
The CFO's Business Case for Retail Decision Intelligence
A quantified, de-risked, board-ready case for moving from dashboards to a retail decision system — the model, the payback curve and the one-pager finance needs to approve the spend.
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The Markdown & Clearance Field Guide
When to mark down, how deep, and where — a working method to recover margin and clear clean by treating markdown as a read-driven decision, not a calendar event.
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