Simbe for Merchants suite offers retailers chain-wide visibility - The Robot Report

Simbe Robotics has launched Simbe for Merchants, a comprehensive suite designed to provide retailers with real-time, chain-wide visibility into product placement and inventory on store shelves. Central to the offering are “realograms,” automatically generated, to-scale diagrams that accurately depict what is physically present on shelves, alongside real-time planogram dashboards. This technology addresses significant retail challenges, as retailers lose an estimated 5.5% of sales and 5% of margin due to in-store inefficiencies, with planogram execution averaging only 60%. Simbe’s solution enables merchandising teams to monitor shelf conditions daily, ensuring correct product placement, display setups, and vendor alignment, ultimately driving measurable sales and margin improvements. The system leverages Simbe’s Tally robots and Tally Spot shelf-mounted cameras, combining computer vision and RFID capabilities to capture detailed, frequent data across hundreds of stores worldwide. Features like Multi-Store View allow retailers to instantly compare shelf conditions for specific products or categories across multiple locations, facilitating efficient