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50–70%
WISMO and returns deflection
60–80%
Digital containment at peak
Faster
Markdown cycles, fewer stockouts (merchandising agents)
80%+
Touchless vendor-invoice processing

Ranges reflect outcomes observed across Pronix retail and ecommerce engagements; results vary by category mix, commerce stack and peak-season plan.

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The enterprise challenge

Retail's real omnichannel challenge is context, not channels.

Customers move fluidly across web, app, marketplace and store. Their context doesn't. AI applied across service, commerce, merchandising and store — with peak-season ops engineered in — closes that gap.

  • Peak-season economics
    Contact-center staffing for peak is the industry's biggest CX cost — AI containment moves that number materially.
  • Returns drive customer lifetime value
    Returns UX is a retention lever masquerading as a cost.
  • Merchandising decisions bound by analyst time
    Markdown and replenishment across thousands of SKUs are analyst-bound — agentic AI proposes actions, humans approve.
  • Store associates as the ceiling on CX
    Store CX depends on associates having the right knowledge and product context in the moment.
Capabilities

Retail-first AI and CX capabilities.

01
Omnichannel order & returns bot

Salesforce Agentforce service agents backed by Commerce Cloud + OMS APIs, voice fallback via Amazon Connect + Lex — 50–70% WISMO/returns deflection.

02
Conversational commerce

Product discovery, guided selling and post-purchase support on web, mobile and messaging.

03
Semantic product search & merchandising RAG

AWS Bedrock semantic search + LLM re-ranking tuned on conversion signal — search-driven conversion lift on long-tail queries.

04
Merchandising & inventory agents

AWS Bedrock agents monitor sell-through, propose markdown and replenishment actions with rationale, execute after buyer approval.

05
Store-associate copilots

In-store copilots for product knowledge, inventory look-up and clienteling on associate handhelds.

06
Vendor invoice processing (D365)

IDP + 3-way match automation, exception queue and analyst copilot for coding — 80%+ touchless invoice rate.

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Peak-readiness AI ops

Load-tested containment, elastic CCaaS capacity, extended managed-ops coverage and daily war-room during peak.

How we deliver

A six-step model, from assessment to managed operations.

Every engagement follows the same rhythm — so business, IT and delivery stay aligned from opportunity to outcome.

01
Assess

Journey, contact-driver and channel baseline.

02
Design

AI architecture, CCaaS blueprint, peak plan.

03
Pilot

One journey live end-to-end.

04
Implement

OMS/CRM integration, CCaaS build.

05
Scale

Journeys, channels, brands, regions.

06
Operate

Managed operations including peak-season.

Where it lands

Use cases already in production with enterprise clients.

Omnichannel order & returns bot (Agentforce + Amazon Lex)

Service agents backed by Commerce Cloud + OMS APIs; voice fallback via Amazon Connect — 50–70% WISMO/returns deflection.

Merchandising agent for markdowns & replenishment (AWS

Agents monitor sell-through, propose markdown/replenishment actions with rationale, execute after buyer approval — faster markdown cycles, fewer stockouts.

Semantic product search & merchandising RAG (AWS Bedrock)

Semantic search + LLM re-ranking + evaluation loop tuned on conversion signal — better relevance, higher conversion on long-tail queries.

Vendor invoice processing (Microsoft Dynamics 365)

IDP + 3-way match automation, exception queue and analyst copilot for coding — 80%+ touchless invoice rate.

Advisory brief

Peak-Ready CX & Merchandising Reference Architecture

How to design retail AI for two buyers at once — the VP CX (containment, returns UX, peak load) and the COO/CMO (merchandising and inventory agents). Includes load-tested containment patterns, OMS/commerce integration seams and a peak-season operating rhythm.

Delivered by

Pronix service lines aligned to retail & ecommerce ai and cx solutions outcomes.

Strategy, implementation and operating support are combined around the service motions most relevant to this industry.

Runs on

Grounded on your data. Governed on day one.

Every platform we implement is only as good as the retrieval, connectors and controls behind it. These are the horizontal solutions we ship with every engagement.

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Frequently asked

Questions buyers ask us first.

Do you integrate with our OMS and commerce platform?
Yes — Shopify, Salesforce Commerce, Manhattan Active Omni, SAP Commerce, custom OMS and headless commerce stacks.
How do you handle peak-season readiness?
Load-tested AI containment, elastic CCaaS capacity, extended managed-ops coverage and daily war-room during peak — sized against your prior-year contact curve.
Do merchandising agents replace merchants?
No — agents monitor sell-through and propose markdown, replenishment or assortment actions with rationale. Buyers/planners approve and execute. Humans stay in the loop on every commercial decision.
Can this power B2B commerce too?
Yes — many of the same patterns apply to distributor and B2B service, with account-aware personalization.
Next step

Book a working session with our retail & ecommerce ai and cx solutions team.

30 minutes. Your architecture, your data, your KPIs. You leave with a concrete pilot outline and a business case worth defending.