Radian, the pioneer of retail Hybrid Intelligence™, today announced a major expansion of its Merchandising Planning Suite, which will deliver integrated capabilities across assortment, base price, promotion, shopper marketing, and space management on a single platform. The release introduces new AI-enabled tools built on Radian’s distinctive hybrid approach, which combines decades of retail merchandising experience with advanced analytics and machine intelligence to help merchants build better plans faster.
The expansion arrives at a pivotal moment as merchandising organizations are being asked to do more with leaner teams, respond to cost volatility in weeks rather than quarters, and defend every price and promotion decision with data. Most AI tools promise speed but deliver opacity via recommendations merchants can’t explain to their leadership, suppliers, or themselves.
Radian’s hybrid model takes the opposite approach: AI accelerates analysis, surfaces opportunities, and pressure-tests scenarios, while experienced retail logic and human judgment shape the final plan. Every recommendation is traceable to the underlying data and assumptions, so plans are both faster to build and easier to defend. The merchant stays in command while the machine does the heavy lifting.
Because all five disciplines – assortment, base price, promotion, shopper marketing, and space management – share a single data foundation, decisions connect rather than collide: an assortment change automatically informs the space plan; a base-price move is evaluated alongside the promotional calendar; a promotion is judged against its true incremental impact on the category, not just its own lift. This eliminates the swivel-chair workflow — and the conflicting answers — that fragment most merchandising organizations today.
“Merchants don’t need another point solution; they need one connected planning environment where AI does the heavy lifting and practitioner expertise drives the decision,” said Jason Rumley, President at Radian. “That hybrid approach is what sets Radian apart, and it’s why our customers are building better plans in a fraction of the time and delivering better results, which is especially important in a low-margin industry like grocery.” — The expanded capabilities are now available to new and existing Radian customers, with modular deployment options that let retailers start where the need is greatest and extend across the platform over time.
