Complexica Pty Ltd, a leading provider of Artificial Intelligence software for supply & demand optimisation, announced today that Phase 2 of its award-winning Decision Cloud® Promotional Campaign Manager (PCM) has gone live within Metcash’s liquor division, Australian Liquor Marketers (ALM). The Phase 2 roll-out of the cloud-based application provides Metcash/ALM with advanced capabilities for predicting marketplace performance of future promotional plans, as well as generating what-if scenarios and optimised plans based upon a variety of constraints, business rules, and KPI objectives.
When Complexica was launched 2014, the company's first two customers were in the food and beverage sector, with Artificial Intelligence being part of the founder's life for many decades before that. They are astounded to see the hype around AI today, and how many small companies have been created to capitalise on its rise. “In all our years of experience we found that to deliver AI-based technology successfully the first rule is to make sure AI is really the right technology to solve the problem you are trying to solve. AI is just one component of an overall solution.”
For businesses wanting an AI solution, Complexica looks at the number of customers they have, the number of products they sell, and the complexity around how they make and/or deliver those products to customers. Michalewicz explains it is the complexity of a business not its size that is key. “It is a well-suited solution when the complexity of a business’s operations begins to overpower the people working in it and they struggle to manage and stay on top of what needs to be done”.
Complexica Pty Ltd, a leading provider of Artificial Intelligence software for optimising sales, marketing, & supply chain decisions, announced today that its award-winning Promotional Campaign Manager (PCM) software has gone live on time and on budget within Metcash’s liquor division - Australian Liquor Marketers (ALM). Next month, Complexica and ALM will kick off phase 2 of the project, which will introduce advanced prediction and optimisation capabilities into the deployed system.
“We are excited to progress our partnership with Complexica to the next phase, with the initial roll out of their Promotional Campaign Manager (PCM) software being well received by the business and delivering on the promise of removing duplication and manual work from our processes. Phase two of the project will allow us to build promotional programs using advanced prediction and optimisation algorithms, to ensure the best possible outcomes for our retailers,” said Joel Zamek, General Manager of Merchandising at Australian Liquor Marketers.
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14 March 2019
Speaking to the 2019 Annual Leaders Forum edition of National Liquor News, Rod Pritchard the Interim CEO of ALM detailed the great shape the business is in and how it aims to continue delivering sustainable growth for its independents into 2019.
When asked how he planned on continuing to build and improve the IBA network into 2019, Rod answered: “Our IBA offer is fully focused on delivering against the needs of our shoppers. We tailor our offer for each of our retail banners in the IBA network, to best meet the changing shopper expectations across the various retail channels that exist in the market. We utilise the shopper insights and data that we have at our disposal to make informed ranging and programming decisions, and to fine tune our offer accordingly. We recently announced our partnership with Complexica – who are experts in the artificial intelligence field – and we will be rolling out the new promotions platform that they have developed for us in the first quarter of 2019. This is a particularly exciting initiative for us, and we expect our retailers and suppliers to mutually benefit from the outputs of the new platform.”
Metcash’s liquor division, Australian Liquor Marketers (ALM), is taking its marketing to the cloud after signing an agreement with Complexica for standardising and optimising its promotional activities using Artificial Intelligence. ALM supports more than 2700 independently-owned stores operating under the IBA banner group including Cellarbrations, the Bottle-O, IGA Liquor, Thirsty Camel, and Porters Liquor.
“Following a successful proof-of-concept earlier this year, we have selected Complexica as our vendor of choice for standardising and optimising our promotional planning activities,” said interim CEO of ALM, Rod Pritchard. “Complexica’s Promotional Campaign Manager [PCM] will provide us with a cloud-based platform for automating and optimising promotional planning for more than 2700 stores, leading to improved decision-making, promotional effectiveness, and financial outcomes for our retail stores.”
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