DataWeave’s AI platform enables retailers and consumer brands to accelerate sales growth and optimize marketing investments via comprehensive and granular market intelligence across channels. By delivering advanced insights into pricing and assortment strategies and analyzing the digital shelf, DataWeave empowers businesses to optimize key performance indicators, including pricing, share of search, promotions, content, and availability, with an overlay of competitive and market intelligence. | DataWeave’s AI-powered Fuel Pricing Intelligence helps convenience stores, gas stations, and fuel retailers stay competitive with timely, accurate, and hyperlocal fuel pricing insights. By sourcing from both first- and third-party sites and apps, it delivers grade-level pricing data across 30,000+ ZIP codes in North America, including rural and low-traffic areas. Delivered via dashboards, APIs, or raw feeds, it enables smarter pricing decisions, improved margins, and faster market response.
Columbus Consulting
ABOUT COLUMBUS CONSULTING Columbus Consulting delivers solutions that drive true value and have been transforming the retail and CPG industries for over two decades. We are a retail consulting company of industry experts. Our approach is simple, if you do it, we do it. We are more than consultants; we are experienced practitioners who actually sat in our clients’ seats. We understand the challenges, know what questions to ask and deliver the right solutions. Columbus offers a unique, consumer-centric approach with an end-to-end perspective that bridges functional & organization silos from strategy to execution. OUR SPECIALTIES include: unified commerce, merchandising & category management, planning & inventory management, sourcing & supply chain, data & analytics, accounting, finance & operations, people & organization and information technology. Let us know how we can help you.
Churchill Systems, Inc.
Churchill Systems Inc. is a retail demand forecasting leader with 35 years of AI expertise, trusted by some of the world’s largest retailers. Founded as an artificial intelligence partner to IBM in 1989, Churchill has spent decades perfecting proprietary AI solutions to help retailers turn massive volumes of complex data into precise, actionable insights. Our technology addresses the core challenges of demand planning across key areas of retail operations — from merchandise planning and supply chain to pricing and promotions management. Churchill’s end-to-end demand forecasting helps retailers take control of every stage of the product lifecycle—eliminating inefficiencies, preventing stockouts, and increasing forecast precision to unlock stronger revenue performance. Our software solutions are designed to seamlessly integrate into your existing architecture—no rip-and-replace required—maximizing the value of current systems without disrupting operations.
CENTRIC SOFTWARE INC.
Centric Software® headquartered in Silicon Valley delivers an AI-driven concept-to-commercialization platform for retailers, brands and manufacturers worldwide. Trusted across fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home, food & beverage, cosmetics, personal care and multi-category retail, Centric empowers companies to plan, design, develop, source, price, allocate and sell products with speed and precision. Its portfolio includes Centric PLM™, Centric Planning™, Centric Pricing & Inventory™, Centric Market Intelligence™, Centric Visual Boards™ and Centric PXM™ which drive measurable gains in productivity, margins and time to market. | Centric Software provides the market-leading consumer goods Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) platform, Centric PLM™, featuring integrated industry best-practices and innovative, AI-enabled capabilities tailored specifically for food manufacturers, retailers and food service providers to seamlessly manage the overall product lifecycle. Centric PLM streamlines product development to speed time to market and innovation while enhancing quality control and ensuring regulatory compliance. | Centric Software provides an innovative and AI-enabled product concept-to-commercialization platform for retailers, brands and manufacturers of all sizes. As experts in cosmetics & personal care, fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home, food & beverage as well as multi-category retail, Centric Software delivers best-of-breed solutions to plan, design, develop, source, comply, buy, make, price, allocate, market, sell and replenish products. | From its headquarters in Silicon Valley, Centric Software provides the market-leading AI-enabled Product Lifecycle Management platform for cosmetic and personal care manufacturers, brands and multi-category retailers. As experts in all fast-moving consumer goods, Centric Software delivers best-of-breed solutions to design, develop, source, buy, make, package, assort and sell products. Centric solutions optimize the product portfolio, harmonize product offers and streamline product development by speeding time to market and innovation while enhancing quality control and ensuring regulatory compliance. Centric PLM features integrated industry best practices and innovative, AI-enabled capabilities tailored specifically for cosmetic and personal care manufacturers and retailers. Seamlessly manage the overall product lifecycle, from initial concept and formula development to packaging, quality, supplier collaboration, labeling, production, SKU rationalization and beyond. Results include up to a 50% improvement in productivity and a 60% decrease in time to market. Centric Visual Boards are a visually oriented top-down/bottom-up product portfolio optimization tool. Real-time data and imagery from multiple business systems are brought into a singular accessible workspace, creating a new, visual way of working for all teams to ensure robust, curated global/regional product offers, dramatically decreasing assortment development cycle time. Centric Market Intelligence is an AI-driven platform giving insights into consumer trends, competitor offers and pricing to boost competitivity and get closer to the consumer, with an up to 12% increase in average initial price point. Centric Software’s market-driven solutions have the highest user adoption rate, customer satisfaction rate and fastest time to value in the industry. Centric Software has received multiple industry awards and recognition, appearing regularly in world-leading analyst reports and research. Centric Software is a subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA), the world leader in 3D design software, 3D digital mock-up and PLM solutions. Centric Software is a registered trademark of Centric Software, Inc. in the US and other countries. Centric PLM, Centric Market Intelligence and Centric Visual Boards are Trademarks of Centric Software, Inc. All third-party trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners.
CapNexus
RPE and Capstone Integrated Solutions are a powerhouse in retail IT software services and solutions providing a broader and complementary offering. Both companies have a proven track record helping retailers increase sales, improve profits and enhance the customer experience. With over 25 years of experience, RPE offers strategic planning, process improvement, package selection, systems implementation and integration and cloud and managed services. Capstone, a full-service software and digital services company, brings premium engineering, cloud native and AI solutions to the partnership. Together, our team of industry experts is deeply skilled in selecting, designing, building and supporting software solutions across various platforms and verticals. We offer a complete breadth of services, from strategy, change management and software selection to implementation and support, helping clients succeed in an ever-evolving retail landscape.
Board
Board is the Enterprise Planning Platform built to accelerate business performance and enable continuous planning with greater forecast accuracy to drive confident, aligned decisions. Its fully integrated planning solution spans the entire enterprise, delivering value for financial and operational planning in one unified platform. Using internal data and expert-curated external indicators, Board provides real-time visibility into your business Board offers the most flexible, collaborative and adaptive user experience, powering executive dashboards and analytic capabilities that allows clear explanation and interpretation delivered through generative AI. This allows organizations to respond in an agile manner: capitalize on opportunities, optimize resources and mitigate risks.
BLUE YONDER
Blue Yonder is the world leader in digital supply chain transformation. Retailers, manufacturers and logistics service providers worldwide rely on Blue Yonder to optimize and accelerate their supply chain from planning through fulfillment, delivery, and returns. Blue Yonder’s AI-driven supply chain platform and multi-enterprise, multi-tier network enable more accurate forecasting and dynamic management of capacity, inventory and transport. Blue Yonder helps businesses navigate modern supply chain complexity and volatility with more resilient, sustainable supply chains to delight customers, scale profitably, and run flawlessly. | Blue Yonder is the world leader in digital supply chain transformations and omni-channel commerce fulfillment. Our end-to-end, cognitive business platform enables retailers, manufacturers and logistics providers to best fulfill customer demand from planning through delivery. With Blue Yonder, you’ll unify your data, supply chain and retail commerce operations to unlock new business opportunities and drive automation, control and orchestration to enable more profitable, sustainable business decisions. | Blue Yonder is the world leader in digital supply chain transformation. Retailers, manufacturers and logistics service providers worldwide rely on Blue Yonder to optimize and accelerate their supply chain from planning through fulfillment, delivery, and returns. Blue Yonder’s AI-driven supply chain platform and multi-enterprise, multi-tier network enable more accurate forecasting and dynamic management of capacity, inventory and transport. Blue Yonder helps businesses navigate modern supply chain complexity and volatility with more resilient, sustainable supply chains to delight customers, scale profitably, and run flawlessly. | Blue Yonder is the AI company for supply chain. As the world leader in end-to-end digital supply chain transformation, Blue Yonder offers a unified, AI-driven platform and multi-tier network that empowers businesses to operate sustainably, scale profitably, and delight their customers—all at machine speed. A pioneer in applying AI solutions to the most complicated supply chain challenges, Blue Yonder’s modern innovations and unmatched industry expertise help more than 3,000 retailers, manufacturers, and logistics service providers confidently navigate supply chain complexity and disruption. | Blue Yonder is a world leader in digital supply chain transformation. Retailers, manufacturers and logistics service providers worldwide rely on Blue Yonder to optimize and accelerate their supply chain from planning through fulfillment, delivery, and returns. Blue Yonder’s AI-driven supply chain platform and multi-enterprise, multi-tier network enable more accurate forecasting and dynamic management of capacity, inventory and transport. Blue Yonder helps businesses navigate modern supply chain complexity and volatility with more resilient, sustainable supply chains to delight customers, scale profitably, and run flawlessly.
Bamboo Rose
Bamboo Rose is a global leader in enterprise retail technology solutions. TotalPLM™ is the most comprehensive Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) platform, integrating Planning and Merchandising, Creative Collaboration, Product Development, Sourcing, Supplier Relationship Management, Purchase Order Management, and Global Trade Management — all powered by AI-fueled Decision Intelligence. Built for scalability and agility, the Bamboo Rose platform helps retailers and brands optimize operations, drive margin growth, and meet evolving industry demands. Learn more at bamboorose.com or follow us on LinkedIn. | Bamboo Rose is a global leader in enterprise retail technology solutions. TotalPLM™ is the most comprehensive Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) platform, integrating Planning and Merchandising, Creative Collaboration, Product Development, Sourcing, Supplier Relationship Management, Purchase Order Management, and Global Trade Management — all powered by AI-fueled Decision Intelligence. Built for scalability and agility, the Bamboo Rose platform helps retailers and brands optimize operations, drive margin growth, and meet evolving industry demands. Learn more at bamboorose.com or follow us on LinkedIn.