LTPlabs and NielsenIQ simplify the transition to automatic planogram generation with an AI-based solution to read Merchandising rules

LTPlabs is pleased to announce its collaboration with NielsenIQ, the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, to develop an innovative add-on to NIQ’s retail space planning tool, Spaceman Automation.

TETRIS, developed by LTPlabs, efficiently transitions retailers to automatic planogram generation. This new component extracts merchandising rules from existing manual planograms and directly integrates them into NIQ Spaceman’s workflow, accelerating the transition.

This collaboration will enhance NIQ’s ability to deliver exceptional value to retailers by streamlining the creation of automated store-specific planograms. Integrating TETRIS with NIQ’s Spaceman solution empowers retailers with data-driven insights and advanced tools to design more efficient and customer-centric shelf layouts.

TETRIS leverages Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning techniques to identify the planogram’s main aggregations of products and determine its implementation rules, such as location, implementation criteria, sequence within each criterion, and implementation direction. This information is crucial for Spaceman Automation to successfully generate planograms automatically.  Key benefits of using TETRIS include:

• Reducing the time and effort required to gather and input merchandising rules into Spaceman Automation;
• Leveraging AI and insights from past successful planogram generations to identify key product groupings among all criteria;
• Support from an experienced team for the creation and optimization of rules for Spaceman Automation.

Teresa Bianchi de Aguiar,  partner at LTPlabs, says:

Merchandising rules, often scattered across manual planograms and difficult to interpret, can now be efficiently systematized. With TETRIS, retailers can focus on improving what lies at the core of the automatic planogram generation process: merchandising rules

Sergio Hernando, Global Product Leader of Spaceman, emphasizes:

NIQ continues to make significant investments in our Spaceman solutions to ensure that clients can fully adopt and benefit from automated planogram generation. Our collaboration with LTPlabs and the integration of TETRIS marks a pivotal advancement in simplifying client’s automation journey. This solution enables retailers to seamlessly transform manual layouts into essential inputs for automated planogram creation, leveraging our advanced ‘smart automation’ algorithms. We remain committed to helping retailers elevate their merchandising strategies, improve operational efficiency and drive sales in a rapidly evolving marketplace.