TETRIS is an AI solution to extract merchandising rules from existing planograms

Chicago – Dec. 5, 2024: NielsenIQ, the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, is pleased to announce its collaboration with LTPlabs, a member of the NIQ Partner Network and a consulting firm specializing in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Advanced Analytics, 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.

“Merchandising rules, often scattered across manual planograms and difficult to interpret, can now be efficiently systematized,” highlights Teresa Bianchi de Aguiar, a partner at LTPlabs. “With TETRIS, retailers can focus on improving what lies at the core of the automatic planogram generation process: merchandising rules”, she adds.  

“NIQ continues to make significant investments in our Spaceman solutions to ensure that clients can fully adopt and benefit from automated planogram generation,” emphasizes Sergio Hernando, Global Product Leader of Spaceman. “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.” 

Learn more about NIQ Spaceman Services and Retail Solutions.  

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About LTPlabs:

LTPlabs is a consulting firm that combines AI and Advanced Analytics expertise with a strong business acumen, resulting in highly customized solutions capable of transforming companies by empowering decisions with Analytics. LTPlabs is specialized in identifying, igniting, and scaling high-impact use cases that drive significant value using AI and Advanced Analytics. Whether businesses want to increase revenue, reduce costs or shift their business models, data can make or break its success. For more information, visit LTPLABS.COM. 

About NIQ

NielsenIQ (NIQ) is the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. NIQ combined with GfK in 2023, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. Today NIQ has operations in more than 95 countries covering 97% of GDP. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights—delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms—NIQ delivers the Full View™.   
For more information, please visit www.niq.com