Microsoft Scenario Library Retail Price, promotion & markdown optimization agent

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Retail scenario: Price, promotion & markdown optimization agent

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Scenario

Use Copilot Studio to create a price, promotion & markdown optimization agent

Optimizes pricing and promotions to improve margins and reduce aging inventory.

1. Analyze product performance

Analyzes product performance across stores, categories, and time using product sales data by leveraging historical sales, seasonal trends, and regional buying behavior.

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AI Agent

Benefit: Analyzes product sale data to identify products that require pricing adjustments.

Generates dynamic pricing suggestions using demand forecasting models that account for factors such as seasonality, competitor pricing, price elasticity, and localized demand signals.

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AI Agent

Benefit: Generates adaptive pricing, to achieve more responsive and informed pricing decisions.

Recommends targeted markdowns or promotions based on real-time inventory levels, product aging, and sales velocity and sends for approval to relevant team.

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AI Agent

Benefit: Delivers quality content via emails, without much manual efforts.

KPIs

Opportunity to impact key functional area KPIs

Better manage costs, discounts, and pricing to improve average margins.
Improve quality of campaign content
  • Improve marketing content
  • Improve quality of proposals and RFP responses
  • Improve quality of emails and chats

Ensure your marketing budget is used efficiently with research, analytics, and personalization capabilities that help you reach customers wherever they are in their shopping journey.
Improve quality of campaign content
  • Improve marketing content
  • Improve quality of proposals and RFP responses
  • Improve quality of emails and chats

How Microsoft Copilot can help employee turnover rates

Reduce time spent on shift scheduling while optimizing coverage requirements. Improve employee morale with improved communication and simplified schedule changes.
Improve quality of internal materials and processes
  • Improve job descriptions for further role clarity
  • Improve company meetings with summarization and recap
  • Completely focus during the meeting

Help customers move from ‘browse’ to ‘buy’ with personalized shopping experiences that understand context to surface the perfect product, targeted marketing campaigns that maximize the power of your marketing spend, and helpful answers in the pocket of every store associate.
Improve quality of campaign content
  • Improve marketing content
  • Improve quality of proposals and RFP responses
  • Improve quality of emails and chats

Streamline processes that lead to greater customer satisfaction, from analyzing multiple data sources to understand which products to stock to ensuring product availability and answering customer questions in-store.
Improve quality of campaign content
  • Improve marketing content
  • Improve quality of proposals and RFP responses
  • Improve quality of emails and chats

Provide real-time monitoring of sales, inventory, customer feedback, and staff performance across different locations and/or channels by leveraging data from various sources to quickly gain actionable insights.
Improve targeting
  • Analyze current product mix
    and cross sell success

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