What is S5 Stratos?
- Founder: Not publicly listed
- Launch: Circa early 2020s (exact date not publicly disclosed)
- Use Cases: Assortment planning, merchandise financial planning, allocation optimization, inventory lifecycle management
- Technology: AI / machine learning, predictive analytics, embedded recommendation engines
S5 Stratos is an AI-powered E-commerce platform that designed for today's retailer. A data science engine lies at the heart of Stratos, able to understand meaningful patterns by scanning billions of data points capturing transaction, demand, and supply data. It embeds artificial intelligence (AI) driven recommendation engines into simple user workflows to transform merchants, planners, and supply teams from examples of raw data into actionable insights.
S5 Stratos allows merchandisers to follow the full-life cycle of their product -- from introduction, and assortment design, markdowns, to exit -- across omni-channel retail, wholesale, and direct to consumer business models. It includes modules for assortment planning, including where products should go and when; merchandise financial planning, modeling revenue, margin, and inventory flow; and allocation optimization, distributing the right quantities of products to the right stores/channels. All of this is made possible by collapsing silos of forecasting/planning/buying/allocation that empowers merchants to act faster, create less waste, and do be a better steward of demand by meeting customers wants.
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