Intelligent Retail Platform Blog

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2025

Winter Meetup 2024

For us at Quant, the end of the year, means the traditional Quant Meetup – a three-day meeting of the team that makes Quant happen. We are delighted that a record high number of people attended this year, we welcomed several new coworkers and we are looking forward to Quant Meetup 2025.

Quant helps JPServis to manage 5 store chains seamlessly

Martina Pokorná, Category Specialist from JPServis, which has been our client since 2022 and uses Quant to optimally plan their retail space and create planograms, shared her experience with Quant during this year's QuantCON. We were interested to know what features are among the most popular or how she uses the different planogram projects.

JPServis manages 5 retail networks of more than 50 shops, kiosks and cafes. The group includes Minit bakeries, Momento cafés and Pont To Go stores. The product lines of their store chains are therefore different, which brings certain challenges in terms of retail planning. However, Quant is well equipped to handle these challenges easily.

Swiss company Laboratoires Hauser creates planograms in Quant

Swiss company Laboratoires Hauser has chosen Quant Planogramming to create standalone planograms that are shared across partner stores.

The company distributes premium brands of beauty products and cosmetics to leading drugstore chains, perfumeries, department stores and supermarkets in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Laboratoires Hauser places a high value on quality service and therefore on the optimal display of the brands represented.

Intelligent Retail: Effective planogramming with AI-Driven Planogram rules

The future of retail lies in adaptability and precision. Retailers face the constant challenge of balancing ever shifting customer expectations with store-specific constraints. Hyper-competition in today’s market means retailers must be as efficient as possible to succeed.

Traditionally, planograms were either created for each store individually, requiring a lot of manpower to then keep up to date, or using a one-size-fits-all approach of 'average store' planograms, leading to a considerable error rate. Moreover, the average store planogram did not reflect the specifics of local demand. Both far from ideal.

Looking back at Retail in Detail 2024

This year's Retail in Detail: Digitech conference offered not only a great opportunity to meet colleagues from the industry, but also many news from the world of retail and digital technologies. The main topic of this year's event was artificial intelligence and the speakers presented primarily its use cases from their business.

How Quant helps Smarty with planograms for short life cycle products?

At Quant, we consider building a close relationship with our customers to be the key to long-term business relationship. That is why we are inquiring about what our customers have to say about us. At this year's QuantCON conference, we interviewed Marian Moravec, Retail Specialist at Smarty. We were eager to learn what area has Quant helped Smarty the most and what simplifications the Automatic Planogram updates module has provided for their specific business model.

Store Layout Import from DWG

The majority of retailers have their store layouts designed in some CAD tool at least in some basic form, typically in DWG format. The inquiry about the option to import the store layout into Quant directly from DWG is therefore quite common.
Until recently, the only option was to export the technical plan as a PDF, upload it to the background layer and then manually place the fixtures using custom libraries in Quant.
Thanks to the new functionality of fixture coordinates import, you can now import store layouts into Quant significantly faster and even automate it to a certain degree.

How did Notino manage to reduce overstocking using Quant?

One of our long-standing customers is Notino, the largest specialist online beauty retailer in Europe, which deployed Quant in 2020 for space planning and category management.
During the QuantCON conference, we asked Markéta Vojáčková from Notino what the biggest benefits have been after implementing Quant or how they manage to open new stores using Quant.

Visit us at Retail in Detail 2024

Yet another year has gone by and therefore we would like to invite you to this year's Retail in Detail: Digitech conference organized by Blue Events. The conference will take place on 30th October 2024 at the Conference centre City Prague.
The topic of this year is very on trend – AI Evolution. From the guest speakers you can learn how AI and related innovations are rapidly transforming processes and standards in the retail world. You can look forward to representatives from leading companies in the retail world who will share their valuable tips and know how on how to leverage these technologies to achieve greater efficiency, better customer experience and increased security.

Why are historical sales not enough for quality forecasting and ordering?

Data on historical sales and buying patterns alone is not enough to solely base an accurate forecast on. In order to achieve accurate forecasts, it is essential to include not only historical sales data, but also information about inventory and past and future events that may affect sales. Artificial intelligence will then be able to assess the impact of these factors on sales more accurately and offer more precise predictions.

Quant now supports Single Sign On

In today’s fast-paced retail environment, managing multiple applications and systems efficiently is essential for success. Yet, with so many platforms and tools required to manage the operations properly, managing login credentials for each of them separately can become a hassle and a security risk for your business.
That is why Quant has recently integrated the option to activate Microsoft Single Sign-On within its Retail Planning edition.
Activating SSO in Quant allows you to facilitate user access, enhance security, and significantly improve productivity.

Quant Meetup – A great team behind a great product!

Our team meets regularly not only for formal events such as conferences and workshops, but also for more traditional informal events such as Quant Meetup, where we have the opportunity to meet new team members and strengthen our collaboration. Quant Retail, which has been on the market for over 20 years, has operated on a "work from home" model since its beginning. Opinions on this work format vary, but we are proof that full remote work can bring positive results and growth to a company.

AI in retail? It won't be without work.

Every few years, a new disruptive technology comes along that promises to revolutionize more than just retail. Artificial intelligence is certainly not a technology that will magically solve our problems on its own, but its use can bring significant benefits, whether in the form of automated decision making or machine learning.
But it won't be without work! In fact, it's more true than ever for AI applications that data is the foundation.
Let's take a look at some examples of retail AI deployments that have worked in the field.

Welcoming new customers for the first half of 2024

In the first half of 2024, we welcomed 11 new customers to the Quant family from 9 different countries. The number of stores managed by Quant grew by more than 1,500. Together with the growth of our solution among existing clients, this has increased the total value of long-term contracts by more than 30%, an absolute record.

Nahdi Medical Company Selects Quant for Intelligent Space Planning

Nahdi Medical Company, a leading chain of Saudi retail pharmacy, has selected Quant, a leading solution for intelligent space planning, to manage and optimize layouts and planograms in more than 1100 pharmacies in KSA and UAE.

Looking back at QuantCON 2024

On 12-14 June 2024, the next edition of the QuantCON conference took place on the shores of Lake Mácha at the Port Hotel. We met a record number of Quant users from the Czech Republic and Slovakia, presented the most important news and improvements over the last year, answered many stimulating questions and gained a lot of inspiration.

Fratelli Morgese company has selected Quant for standalone planograms creation

Italian company F.lli Morgese, which operates the Euroesse supermarket chain and franchise stores, chose Quant as the solution for creating standalone planograms.

Medi-Market has chosen Quant for unified space planning

Medi-Market, a Belgian parapharmacy chain operating in several European countries, chose Quant Premium for its unified space planning after a successful Proof of Concept. The main advantage of the chosen solution is the linking of the pharmacy floor plan management process and optimal distribution of categories on the store floor with the creation of store specific planograms optimized using AI and many of Quant's intelligent tools, including automatic data integration with ERP and other external platforms.

RCR Cristalleria Italiana selected Quant for designed planogram creation

The Italian company RCR Cristalleria Italiana, which manufactures and distributes crystal glass products, has chosen Quant Basic to create planograms with their designer products.

RCR emphasizes high quality from the actual production to the final sale and display of the products. Quant has managed to combine both the design of specific modules or gondolas, including banners and shelf strips, and the display of individual products with different types of packaging.

Italian pharmacies FELIA create planograms in Quant

Italian pharmacy chain FELIA was searching for a simple solution to create planograms without the need to draw floor plans. Quant Basic was therefore a great choice, as it makes it easy to create planograms for individual modules as well as for entire lines of fixtures divided, for example, by category or producer.

Orsay creates store layouts and planograms in Quant

Orsay, which operates more than 150 brick-and-mortar fashion stores in many European countries, chose Quant for space optimization, store-specific planogramming and reporting after a successful proof of concept. Photo documentation, task management and forms make communication with stores easier.

Looking back at Retail Summit 2024

The 30th anniversary edition of the Retail Summit, which took place on 25-27 March 2024, was once again a great opportunity to meet major players in the Czech and Central European retail market. Quant Retail has traditionally been a gold partner and the main theme this year was Opening Mind & Markets.

QuantCON 2024 Program

Druhý ročník QuantCON proběhne v termínu 12.–14. června 2024 v Hotelu Port. Bude opět bohatý na zajímavé prezentace a workshopy nejen od našeho týmu, ale o své zkušenosti o využítí Quantu se podělí i naši zákazníci.

Top Benefits of Intelligent Space Planning for Dark Stores

In the busy world of Q-commerce, where things need to be fast and efficient, Dark Stores have become important for smooth operations. But, in this changing world, the key player is often overlooked—intelligent space planning.

Visit us at Retail Summit 2024

The Retail Summit 2024, the most important retail conference in Central Europe, is fast approaching and we, as a traditional gold partner of the event, cannot miss it. We cordially invite you to the 30th anniversary edition, which will take place on 25-27 March 2024 at the Congress Centre in Prague. The theme of this year's edition is Opening Minds & Markets and the programme for all days is really varied.

La Vinoteca chose Quant's unified Space & Demand Planning

La Vinoteca, chilean stores specialized in the sale of wines, liquors, bakery, charcuterie and cheese has chosen Quant for Space & Demand Planning after successful Proof of Concept project we did together. La Vinoteca will not only be using Quants Floorplanning and Planograming tool, but also the Automatic Ordering functionality.

MonkeySports has chosen Quant to create Store Specific Planograms

MonkeySports, a specialized sports store selling hokey and lacrosse equipment has chosen Quant to create Store Specific Planograms for their stores in USA.

Looking back at 2023

In 2023, we celebrated 20 years since the beginning of Quant's development. Looking back at our achievements, we see that we've given ourselves a lot of special gifts for this milestone birthday.