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What Is Fast Simon’s Merchandising AI Assistant?

Oli Kashti - Writer and Fact-Checker for Fast Simon
By Oli Kashti
Joel Taylor - Editor for Fast Simon
Edited by Joel Taylor

Published October 1, 2024.

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Fast Simon’s new Merchandising AI Assistant combines all of the well established benefits of merchandising with their intuitive forward thinking AI chat technology. With the eCommerce world adapting to keep up with the growth in chat technology, Fast Simon is able to offer a solution that stays on top of the game.

What Is A Merchandising AI Assistant?

Fast Simon’s Merchandising AI Assistant uses AI trained on store data to suggest real-time recommendations for merchandising. This gives merchants the unique opportunity to chat with an AI about the best recommendations for merchandising that will produce the best results.

The power of AI assistants are well known for consumers interacting with businesses, in terms of answering FAQs and offering personalized recommendations. Harnessing this AI technology to advise brands on their best courses of actions is the next step. 

How Does The Merchandising AI Assistant Work?

Data gathered by Fast Simon is used to offer suggestions based on:

  • Product attributes
  • Availability
  • Performance

As well as any other relevant factors. The merchandiser can combine business goals and objectives, as well as trending topics to complete their analysis. The result of this is time and money being saved. Manual and rule-based merchandising can take you so far, but combining the power of AI ensures a more robust merchandising strategy than ever before.

An Integrated Assistant

The assistant uses natural language processing in order for the merchants to be able to ask prompts, questions and queries in an intuitive way. It is integrated within the merchandising interface. 

The assistant responds to questions and prompts in real time, offering recommendations in chat form. Merchandisers can then accept or decline suggestions with a simple click. Drag and drop functionality can then be used to implement the merchandising rules.

Fast Simon’s Merchandising

Fast Simon’s merchandising suite is already well established. Through the visual merchandising editor, intuitive drag-and-drop technology is possible without lengthy and costly backend development. This creates a system that is flexible to adapt to current trends, as merchandising should be. Merchandising rules and strategies are easy to implement, and the AI assistant makes this even simpler.

Other possibilities within Fast Simons merchandising suite are:

This addition of the Merchandising AI assistant to the suite creates a more natural communication line between the merchants and merchandising. This creates a faster and smoother pathway to effective merchandising than ever before.