About daVinci Retail - We are a team of retail industry specialists

Created by merchants, for merchants.

daVinci Retail helps retailers plan and buy optimal merchandise assortments tailored to their customers profitably. Created by merchants for merchants, daVinci’s Buy Management System integrates business intelligence with buyers’ knowledge to fashion individual assortments optimized to every micro market’s tastes while meeting strategic financial goals. Our suite of applications is inspired by our extensive experience and direct industry knowledge from working with hundreds of retailers. daVinci’s multi-tiered and modular architecture allows retailers to implement a low-risk/high-return philosophy at their own pace. Bridging the gap between concept and execution, daVinci Retail is your planning vehicle to getting the right product into the stores at the right time. Take control of your assortment planning process every step of the way with daVinci Retail.

Our Inspiration

Leonardo da Vinci, the archetypal Renaissance man, was full of unquenchable curiosity and boundless inventive imagination. He was diversely talented and intelligent in a wide range of subjects from fine arts to science, anatomy, and beyond. His ingenious spirit lives on today at daVinci Retail. As Leonardo strove to marry aesthetics and technical inventiveness, we seek to provide you with a comprehensive tool that perfectly balances art and science.

The name daVinci embodies our company’s fundamental philosophy. A retailer’s success depends upon the buyer’s skill, judgment, and science. Achieving the full benefits of the blend requires a solution that is up to the task. daVinci’s Buy Management System enables the merchant team to use their intuition and business knowledge, combined with available information and science, to achieve strategic merchandise objectives.

History

Founded in 2005, our founders were frustrated with existing tools that are not structurally designed to meet the unique challenges of assortment planning. Each member of our senior management team has over 25 years of direct retail industry knowledge and experience in planning and buying. We saw first hand the challenges retailers faced. daVinci Assortment Planning was born out of this expertise combined with extensive software engineering excellence.

Designed and built for enterprise retailers, daVinci Retail was architected independent of any specific retailer driving product design and development. This was done to ensure that we delivered a flexible and adaptable best-of-breed solution to different retail businesses. We spent our first two years developing an assortment planning product we wish we had as retailers. We’ve since added more features and new products to support the merchandising team in their pursuit to buy right from the start.

The Senior Team

Innovative Technologies from People Who Know Planning and Buying Inside & Out

Ning Chiu

Founder & CEO

William Booth

Business Solutions Architect

Melanie Tomaselli

VP Customer Success
Sales & Marketing

Leah Cook

Retail Business Consulting & Implementations

Derek Rayside

Technology Strategist

OUR BELIEFS

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We Believe It’s Best to do One Thing and Do It Well.

We are singularly focused on the art and science of buying. We believe it’s critical to specialize in, because retailers make money when they buy, not when they sell. Our solutions help retailers buy right. We believe it’s best to do one thing and do it well. That’s why we pride ourselves as retail planning and buying specialists. Our goal is to make the process of buying as simple and as profitable as possible for you; it’s what we do!

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We Believe There is a Better Way, Always.

Retail is constantly transforming with industry shifts and changing customer demands. In today’s competitive retail landscape, continuous innovation is critical to success. Retail leaders are constantly looking for new ways to stay ahead of the competition. We believe true partnerships add value that extends beyond simply being a software provider. We are success enablers for our retail customers. Our innoVinci Lab is in constant motion, relentless in our search for new ways to improve your merchant team’s efficiency and decision quality.

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We Believe Tech Should Grow with You.

When we created daVinci, we knew you wanted a scalable solution. We created it to be adaptive and focused on agility and quick implementations to ensure you maximize your ROI. We understood your business is your secret sauce, so your buying and planning system can not be “out-of-the-box.” daVinci’s Buy Management System is designed to be modular and adaptable. It’s configurable to your needs today and grows with you.

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We Believe in You.

Having spent decades in retail, we saw the gap in the market, a tool specifically tailored for merchants to help them buy and plan more effectively than spreadsheets. We believe a software solution itself can not be the panacea or the replacement for merchants’ art and intuition. But it can be the canvas for them to blend art with science. We know what you do is unique and valuable. We just need to give you the tool and let you create.

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We Believe Our People are Our Biggest Asset.

When you purchase our software, you benefit from our team’s expertise with decades of retail knowledge and experience. Our retail backgrounds in buying and planning allow us to speak the same language, to truly understand your needs and drive how the daVinci solution works for you. We are merchants first, backed by a team of tech wizzes from diverse backgrounds and cultures.

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