daVinci Retail is merchandise planning software designed for enterprise retailers. Its modules cover buying, assortment planning, item planning, merchandise financial planning, forecasting, and store clustering. Canvas Buying brings buy plans together in a shared cloud application backed by a centralized enterprise database. Assortment Planning supports tailored buys across channels, stores, and customer groups, while Merchandise Financial Planning supports strategic and open-to-buy plans across retail channels, including ecommerce and wholesale. Item Planning helps track time-phased buys for core items and sales and inventory against open-to-buy plans. The suite also includes size profiling, allocation management, pricing and markdowns, and product hierarchy capabilities. Retailers can implement the modules they need. The web applications are delivered through AWS and require no installation; the Buy Management System can also run on a customer server or cloud provider. Integration options include APIs, CSV automation, spreadsheet imports, and web services, RESTful, and SOAP connectors. daVinci was founded in 2005 and is based in Somerville, New Jersey. Pricing is available on request.
Who it is for
It suits enterprise retailers planning merchandise across channels, stores, or customer groups. Retailers can choose the modules they need and use the platform on Android, iOS, web, API, or self-hosted environments.
What is good
- Modular architecture lets retailers select needed functions.
- Supports buying, assortment, item, and financial planning.
- Integrates through APIs, CSV, web services, REST, and SOAP.
- Support includes live chat, tickets, phone, and email.
What to know first
- Pricing is available only on request.
- Web applications require AWS delivery.
- Customer-server or cloud hosting is specified for Buy Management System.
Verdict
daVinci Retail brings multiple retail planning functions into a modular suite, with both cloud-based applications and a separate hosting option for its Buy Management System. Retailers considering it will need to contact the company for pricing.
Compared on retail merchandise management software
- Merchandise planning
- Yes
- Assortment planning
- Yes
- Allocation management
- Yes
- Pricing and markdowns
- Yes
- Product hierarchy
- Yes
