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title: "Category Management"
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date: "2026-06-03T19:27:18+00:00"
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#  Category Management: simulate, manage, and control your assortments in a single collaborative tool

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 ![eCOS® - Category Management](https://www.externis.com/templates/yootheme/cache/0a/ecos-assort-category-management-0a14387d.png)

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##  Your daily challenges

 Build coherent

and profitable assortments tailored to local expectations

 Optimize actual numeric and weighted distribution

by monitoring commercial execution

 Align headquarters and field teams

around a clear, measurable strategy

 Centralize your data to collaborate better,

 act faster, and convince your partners

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##  Take back control of your assortments, listings, and

data with eCOS® ASSORT

As a category manager, you are the conductor of the product strategy at the point of sale. Balancing performance analysis, supplier negotiations, promotional planning, and coordination with the field, your role is both strategic and cross-functional.

eCOS® helps you manage your activity with precision and agility by connecting your data, scenarios, and teams.

 ASSORT

Product assortment
management

🎯 Category management

 ![](https://www.externis.com/images/articles/assort/category-management/ecos-assort-icone-04.svg) Centralization and product information sharing

 ![](https://www.externis.com/images/articles/assort/category-management/ecos-assort-icone-03.svg) Informations collection at the point of sale

 ![](https://www.externis.com/images/articles/assort/category-management/ecos-assort-icone-02.svg) Negociation of the assortment

 ![](https://www.externis.com/images/articles/assort/category-management/ecos-assort-icone-05.svg) Referencing SKUS and notifying the sales force accordingly

 ![](https://www.externis.com/images/articles/assort/category-management/ecos-assort-icone-06.svg) REPORTING and PERFORMANCE
management

##  How we approach Category Management

 ![ eCOS® Assort - Category Management](https://www.externis.com/templates/yootheme/cache/4c/category-management-4c9ec689.png)

 Collaborative, centralized category management powered by eCOS® ASSORT

Get a quick overview of your key indicators: volumes, revenue, numeric distribution, weighted distribution, negotiated and actual deals… Track your performance by retail banner, channel, region or category.

**Data-driven assortment management**

Create, test, and deploy your product assortments based on defined business objectives:

- Multi-banner simulation
- Projection in volume, value, numeric and weighted distribution
- Scenario comparison
- Automatic optimization recommendations

 ![ eCOS® Assort - Connected listings](https://www.externis.com/templates/yootheme/cache/11/connected-listings-116eb4ad.png)

**Connected listings management, grounded in real-world field data**

From the enriched item database to field data, everything is aligned:

- Tracking of listing agreements
- Direct availability to the sales force
- Monitoring of activation (actual numeric and weighted distribution)

**Seamless integration with your existing tools**

Interoperable with your ERP, PIM, CRM, and BI systems, eCOS® works with always up-to-date data.

###  Concrete benefits

 -98%

Excel files

 -80%

emails exchanged

 +80%

time saved

 -12%

stockouts reduced

 ![ eCOS® Assort - Collaboration](https://www.externis.com/templates/yootheme/cache/7d/collab-360-assort-7dc403d4.png)

###  What makes eCOS® ASSORT the best fit for your Category Management strategy?

Intelligent and shared data utilization**
A tool designed with category managers**
Collaborative approach: marketing, sales force, purchasing, logistics...**
100% SaaS, interoperable**

 ![Marine Joncour, Retail Development Manager at BEL](https://www.externis.com/templates/yootheme/cache/53/marine-joncour-539f6182.png)

 « Thanks to eCOS® Assort, I’ve saved 80% of the time spent on data processing, which I now dedicate to client relationships. »

 ![Whiskies du Monde](https://www.externis.com/images/clients/logos/BEL.svg)

Marine Joncour,

 Retail Development Manager at BEL

 « Thanks to eCOS® Assort, I’ve saved 80% of the time spent on data processing, which I now dedicate to client relationships. »

 ![Marine Joncour, Retail Development Manager at BEL](https://www.externis.com/templates/yootheme/cache/71/marine-joncour-7165b570.png)

Marine Joncour,

 Retail Development Manager at BEL

 ![Valois & Cie](https://www.externis.com/images/clients/logos/BEL.svg)

 Ready to optimize your eCOS® suite?

 Contact us today to discuss your project and discover how our tailor-made solutions can transform your tools.

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