Empower your merchants to reach their full potential
McKinsey’s Merchant AI Accelerator leverages agentic AI and our retail expertise to supercharge merchants.
Merchant AI Accelerator is a transformative approach that equips your merchants with the skills, technology, processes, data, and operating model they need to make better, faster decisions—giving you a competitive edge.
Merchant AI Accelerator
Our AI-powered approach that amplifies your merchants and rewires your end-to-end merchandising function—automating manual tasks and building the right capabilities to save time and grow revenues. McKinsey has supported more than 230 merchandising transformations over the past five years, training 10,000 merchants and managing $200B in retail spend through our solution platforms. We’ve learned what works—and what doesn’t—and know how to sustain impact by building capabilities and driving lasting adoption across your organization.
Amplify your merchants
This suite of over ten AI solutions takes on manual, repetitive work so merchants can reclaim up to 40 percent of their time to focus on strategy, customers, and negotiations.
Customize your solutions
Our offerings span assortment, COGS, inventory, pricing, and promotions, and extend into supply chain, marketing, and store operations. Each module can stand on its own or be integrated with others; all are built on a unified data foundation and tailored to your organization.
Rewire your organization end to end
McKinsey helps evolve your entire approach to merchandising, integrating technology, data, strategic guidance, change management, and capability building to ensure your merchants deliver lasting improvement.
AI solutions powering Merchant AI accelerator
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