Case Study: Associated Wholesale Grocers improves shelf planning and store execution with SymphonyAI

Shelf planning innovation fuels shopper satisfaction

Associated Wholesale Grocers, Inc. (AWG), the nation’s largest cooperative food wholesaler for independently owned supermarkets, needed a better way to help its diverse members manage shelf planning across many store formats. With shoppers expecting more local products, new items, and better in-stock performance, AWG needed a solution to improve planogram performance, store execution, and overall merchandising consistency.

AWG implemented SymphonyAI’s shelf planning solution to automate store clustering and generate store-specific planograms with flexible shelf layouts, must-stock items, and merchandising rules built in. The platform improved collaboration between AWG, its retail members, and stores, helping increase planogram adoption, support DSD and third-party items, improve on-shelf availability, reduce waste, and strengthen reset execution and store efficiency.

Associated Wholesale Grocers, Inc. (AWG)

Brian Adams

Director of Category Management Execution