Oracle Retail Lifecycle Price Optimization Demo Deck for Tillys 3.14.24

Oracle Retail Planning Overview
March 2024
Tillys Oracle’s Lifecycle Price Optimization
Oracle Retail Team
Retsci, Director of Science Analytics
Bill Zacher
Retsci, Chief Operating Officer
Ryan Somers
Product Management & Strategy
Rachel Lewis
Principal Sales Consultant, Retail Planning
Mike Daves
Account Executive
Kevin Walsh
Sales Consulting VP
Bob Zacher
Senior Cloud Architect
Carla Anderson
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Oracle Retail Experience at Scale
310 Million SKU
52.7 Trillion Managed SKU Locations
43 Million Daily Transactions
163K Stores
380 Million Customer Records
499.3 Billion Annual Revenue
35+ years developing and deploying retail software
130K+ Cores of Compute
16 Petabytes of storage
Agenda
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Introductions
Overview
Demonstration
Science as a Service & Implementation with Retsci
Wrap Up & Next Steps
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Tillys Opportunities
Scenario Modeling
Platform to Grow withEfficiency
Maximize Margin
Proactive vs. Reactive
Oracle Named a Leader in IDC MarketScape: Worldwide
Retail Price Optimization Solutions 2023
“Built for scale: Oracle's price optimization solution is well designed to meet the scale needs of any retailer, regardless of size, industry segment, geography, business model, or channel mix.”
A Leader in Retail Price Optimization
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Price & Strategy
How do I ensure that I am pricing optimally throughout an item’s lifecycle? How do I ensure I am maintaining price perception while balancing margin and revenue goals?
Price & the details
How can I understand how product – store- customer price sensitivity affects revenue and margin and product availability ? How can I take all pricing decisions faster without deviating from my pricing strategy?
Move Inventory
How do I place inventory when and where my customers want it and in the right quantity and at the right price?
Price & Effectiveness
How do I monitor and ensure I meet my goals season after season? How can I grow share instead of cannibalizing sales?
Customers
What and when are my customers buying from me? When do they switch to competitors? How can I increase their share of wallet?
Work the Value Chain
How do I monitor and ensure seamless alignment across the value chain?
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Precision in Pricing
T R A N S F O R M
B r o w s e a n d p l a n
T r a n s a c t
A c q u i r e
C o n s u m e
R e v i e w
I N N O V A T E
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Unified Planning Process
B r o w s e a n d p l a n
T r a n s a c t
A c q u i r e
C o n s u m e
R e v i e w
24 months – 6 months 6 Months – 1 Week In Season Next Season
Pre-Season MFP Category Plans
In-season Assortment Analytics | OTB Re-Planning | Price Recommendations & Targeted Offers Localized Assortments Initial Buy & Price Plan
In-Season Forecasting, Allocation & Replenishment Weekly Item Plan
Sales, Inventory, Receipts
Analyze &
Review
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Regular Price
Promotions
Markdowns
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Retailer’s Data
Applied AI for Unified Planning
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Retail Analytics & Planning Common UI (Retail Home, Workflow, Analytics)
Retail Insights
Merchandise Financial Planning
Assortment and Item Planning
Assortment & Space
Optimization
Inventory Planning
Optimization
Lifecycle Pricing
Optimization
Retail AI Foundation
Advanced Clustering
Forecasting Engine Attribute Extraction Customer
Segmentation
Customer Decision Trees
Demand Transference
Size Profile Optimization
Affinity Analysis Innovation Workbench
Descriptive
Descriptive analytics is a point in time metric that provides an interpretation for how business is performing
Predictive
A more advanced method of data analysis that uses a variety of methods and models to make assessments of what could happen in the future
Prescriptive
While predictive analytics show the anticipated results of potential actions, prescriptive analytics provide recommendations to achieve specific results
How is my new assortment selling, and where is it selling best/worst?
How much am I forecasted to sell over the next weeks and months?
What can I do to sell more, make more margin, and achieve my inventory goals?
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Supporting the Full Range of Analytics
Lifecycle Pricing Optimization drive higher revenue & margin by
optimizing prices based on demand and pricing rules and strategies
Provides robust what-if scenario planning
Guided Learning and Chat bot to aid the users
Built on AI Foundation
Machine learning and deep learning techniques to forecast and evaluate
impact of optimized recommendations
Pricing Strategies management, including key competitive strategies &
ranking and prioritization of rules Allow for high automation and
configuration of workflow
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Lifecycle Pricing Highlights Driven by Automation
Maximizing the Value of Your Assortment with In-Season Promotion/ Markdown & Offer Optimization
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Promotion and Markdown Optimization
Product Introduction $58.99
Promotion 10% Off
Promotion 15% Off
Markdown 30% Off
Markdown 50% Off
Markdown 70% Off
Targeted Offer Highlighting
Relevant 10% Off Promotion
Targeted Offer Special 25%
Offer for “Trend Setter”
Targeted Offer Optimization
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Business Constraints & Objectives
Demand Sensing
Statistical forecast Lifts and demand estimates Price elasticity
Pricing strategy Business rules Target goals Lifecycle eligibility
Price Recommendations & Estimated Impact
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Recommendation Engine
Constraints Organization
Typically defined at Global and Optimization Level, with
overrides at Class, Subclass and Item Levels
Presented in a Consolidated View for Management and
Visibility
Discount Ladders set for Promotion and
Markdown and Location
Sell-Through Targets
Time-related
Constraints
No-touch Periods
Time-between
Promotion Length
Product Lifecycle
Promotion Constraints
Promotion Days
Discount % Min / Max
Total Promotions
Markdown Constraints
Markdown Days
Discount % Min / Max
Total Markdowns
Product Group Rules
At most one item
All items promoted
All items promoted same
Defining the Optimization Business Rules / Constraints
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Promotion Markdown & Offer Optimization Demonstration
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AI : Like Items using Image Similarities Identifies similar item based on product images so that it can be used to identify like items for forecasting or initial pricing
• Deep learning-based segmentation to eliminate background information and noise in images
• Segmented images are transformed into embedding vectors using deep neural networks
• Embedding vectors to compute similarity scores
• Compare the query image with all others to identify similar images based on calculated scores
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4-10% increase in Gross Margin
Increase in Forecast Accuracy
2-5 days reduction in inventory
Up to 50% increased staff efficiency
Automation
Exception Management
Collaboration
Reduction in Vendor Variability
Increased Sell-Thru % 4-10%
Faster IRR
The Value based on 15+ retail case studies
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Retailer’s Data
Applied AI for Unified Planning
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Retail Analytics & Planning Common UI (Retail Home, Workflow, Analytics)
Retail Insights
Merchandise Financial Planning
Assortment and Item Planning
Assortment & Space
Optimization
Inventory Planning
Optimization
Lifecycle Pricing
Optimization
Retail AI Foundation
Advanced Clustering
Forecasting Engine Attribute Extraction Customer
Segmentation
Customer Decision Trees
Demand Transference
Size Profile Optimization
Affinity Analysis Innovation Workbench
Demo Slide 1 Slide 2: Oracle Retail Team Slide 3 Slide 4: Agenda Slide 5 Slide 6 Slide 7 Slide 8 Slide 9 Slide 10 Slide 11 Slide 12 Slide 13 Slide 14 Slide 15: Maximizing the Value of Your Assortment with In-Season Promotion/ Markdown & Offer Optimization Slide 16 Slide 17: Defining the Optimization Business Rules / Constraints Slide 18 Slide 19: AI : Like Items using Image Similarities Identifies similar item based on product images so that it can be used to identify like items for forecasting or initial pricing Slide 20: The Value Slide 21