Merchandising optimization software – a solution for planogram and floor plan creation, planning, and management using sales data and AI forecasting analytics, completed by in-store task execution to improve margins, sales and customer satisfaction.
Seamlessly orchestrate and control complex retail merchandising management with minimal effort.
LEAFIO Shelf Efficiency is a data-driven, professional retail merchandising tool. After years of analyzing the challenges of modern retailers, we have developed a comprehensive solution that covers the entire end-to-end merchandising process for both headquarters and stores. Shelf Efficiency is part of the LEAFIO AI Retail Platform and works alongside Inventory Optimization, Assortment Performance, Promotion Management, and Logistics Solutions.
LEAFIO’s planogram builder for generating data-driven planograms: Create them easily and use autofacing features to build those that factor in demand forecasting, sales, turnover, ABC analysis data, etc. Send these planograms to the store in just a few clicks.
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Floor plans for each store, updated in real time with all fixtures, layouts, and shelves. Digitize them to achieve higher SPSF/SPSM, monitor performance, and optimize labor costs and space planning with a best-in-class merchandising software solution.
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Data based creation of planograms using AI demand forecasting, sales and customer preferences parameters: brands, price, sizes, etc. This tool allows you to standardize displays across the chain, optimize shelf spacing, and scale the planogram generation process.
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Develop profitable planograms that take into account the sales, stock, and general demand indicators of each individual store, rather than the chain as a whole. With LEAFIO, one of the most comprehensive merchandising software solutions, you will get better customer experience and higher sales per foot/meter.
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Evaluate the efficiency of your planograms, make data-driven decisions and improve your KPIs with configurable analytics on sales, profit and more. The data will associate you with your daily operations and help with a strategic vision of development.
A cross-platform mobile merchandising application that allows store associates to receive tasks in real time from head office through actual visual planograms and scan item barcodes for easy in-store navigation. For the head office, it’s an efficient tool for display monitoring with real photos and inventory balance data at its disposal.
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Upload a display photo and let the AI instantly compare it against the planogram on record. Receive an accuracy score in percent, a detailed compliance report, and visual annotations that pinpoint every mismatch: wrong facings, misplaced SKUs, and missing products right on the image.
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increase in sales per meter/foot
assortment
optimization
faster planogram generation process
LEAFIO Shelf Efficiency works as a merchandising management system that covers every stage of the merchandising process — from the store layout to shelf analytics — so the head office controls the display across the entire chain and stores get clear tasks in one tool.
Create working and draft sales floor layouts, arrange and change the position of fixtures, and analyze how effective these actions are.
Build planograms with the drag-and-drop tool or autofacing, which calculates the number of SKUs on the fixture based on sales, turnover, stock, etc. With fixture zoning, highlight supplier or category blocks on the shelf and set display rules for a specific zone.
Store employees receive display tasks in the LEAFIO mobile app, and you check the results without leaving your office — including AI planogram compliance checks from shelf photos.
With group management and “format fixture”, add or remove products from the assortment across the entire retail chain in a few clicks — up to 1,000 stores at once.
Track the effect of your actions in real time: Excel reports, printouts from the system, or regular mailings on an individual schedule; the analytics dashboard for daily monitoring — and a check whether each category’s share of shelf matches its share of profit.
Let's talk about your merchandising challenges and explore how AI can help you capture more revenue from every square foot. We'll walk through your current workflow and show you exactly where LEAFIO can optimize space allocation, speed up planning cycles, and turn your shelf strategy into measurable business results.
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Plum Market co-founder and CEO
AI visual merchandising eliminates the guesswork from shelf strategy by analyzing sales patterns, inventory performance, and consumer behavior to recommend optimal product placement automatically. Modern agentic AI goes beyond basic analytics; it actively participates in decision-making by recommending facing changes based on real-time sales trends and demand shifts. The AI continuously monitors category performance and suggests when to increase facings for high-velocity items or reduce space for underperformers, adapting your merchandising strategy to market conditions without waiting for quarterly reviews. This intelligent automation means faster response to trends, optimized space allocation that evolves with demand, and merchandising decisions backed by data intelligence rather than manual spreadsheet analysis.
Merchandising software for retail enables instant chain-wide updates when urgent situations demand immediate action. Whether it's a product recall, unexpected stockout, competitive response, seasonal emergency, or promotional pivot, you can deploy merchandising changes to hundreds or thousands of stores in minutes instead of days or weeks. The platform lets you modify planograms centrally, then push updated tasks directly to store associates' mobile devices with clear visual instructions showing exactly what needs to change. AI-powered compliance verification ensures execution happens quickly and accurately—associates photograph updated shelves, and the system confirms changes were made correctly across your entire network.
Visual merchandising planning software integrates with your existing retail systems to create a unified data foundation for smarter decisions. Common integrations include POS systems for sales transaction data, ERP platforms for product catalogs and pricing, inventory management systems for stock levels and replenishment, supplier databases for product specifications and agreements. The software pulls historical sales, real-time inventory positions, margin data to form merchandising recommendations, and insightful analytics. Cloud-based APIs enable seamless connections without replacing your current infrastructure—the merchandising platform becomes an intelligence layer on top of systems you already use.
Absolutely. Most retailers begin with a pilot program focusing on a single category or regional cluster to prove ROI before expanding. Retail visual merchandising software is designed for phased implementation: you might start with a high-priority category like beverages or snacks where merchandising impact is immediately visible, or test in 10-30 stores across one region to validate the approach. This lets your team learn the platform, refine workflows, and demonstrate measurable results: improved sales, better compliance, faster planogram creation, before committing to a chain-wide rollout. Pilots typically run 8-10 weeks, enough time to see performance trends and gather user feedback. Once success is proven in the pilot, expansion is straightforward: the same processes, templates, and learnings scale to additional categories and locations. Starting small reduces implementation risk, builds internal champions, and gives you concrete data to justify broader investment across your entire merchandising operation.
An end-to-end merchandising process covers every step from planning to control: designing the store layout (macrospace), building data-driven planograms (microspace), sending display tasks to stores, making changes across the whole chain, and analyzing the results. LEAFIO Shelf Efficiency acts as a single merchandising management system for all of these stages, so head office and stores work in one tool with one set of data.
Yes. Shelf Efficiency is one module of the LEAFIO AI Retail Platform and shares data with Inventory Optimization (stock levels and demand forecasts shape facings), Assortment Performance (matrix changes update planograms across the chain), Promotion Management (promo displays are planned together with promo stock), and Logistics Solutions (WMS, TMS, and route planning). You can start with one module and add the others on the same platform.
