Merchmix released the latest generation of its AI-powered merchandising and inventory operating system, a platform that promises to free businesses from “admin-heavy workflow” from finance and procurement to store management.

The tech firm, founded in 2024, said in a recent statement that this brings together retail intelligence, financial planning, stock allocation and visual merchandising into a single platform that can work for brands, retailers, and wholesalers.

Its newest OS features several tools that can help with business strategy, from distributing stock based on live demand signals to a suite that can track the return on investment “of every SKU on every fixture in every store.”

This, in essence, can change how retail leaders process what happens inside a store. As Merchmix Co-founder Nicola Bond put it in a statement, these people are “tired of stitching together spreadsheets and legacy systems just to understand what is happening.”

In effect, retail planning cycles would only take days, instead of months.

“The platform dramatically automates manual, admin-heavy workflows so teams can focus on strategy, not process,” she said.

“Our customers are already seeing significant improvements in margin of up to 50 percent, faster planning cycles—from weeks to days or hours—and better stock utilization as they bring planning, merchandising and execution into one intelligent operating system,” she added.

Traditional methods of managing inventories struggle with the costs of not hitting the right spot between understocked and overstocked.

Retailers around the world lose $1.73 trillion dollars every year to inventory distortion, which refers to costs of out-of-stocks and overstocks, roughly equivalent to the size of South Korea’s economy, according to a 2025 analysis by research and advisory firm IHL Group.

Merchmix said its OS is available to retailers, brands, wholesalers and inventory-led businesses across the U.K., Europe, the U.S. and APAC.