Retail Solutions

Retail Solutions, Inc. (RSi) provides software-as-a-service (SaaS) products for the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry and its retailers. The company's technology offers business intelligence by capturing and analyzing consumer demand signals from point-of-sale data, helping clients optimize on-shelf availability, operational productivity, and omnichannel sales.

Founded in 2003 as T3Ci (The Tag Tracking Company, Incorporated) by Jonathan Golovin, Richard Swan, Peter Rieman, and Shantha Mohan, the company initially focused on analyzing data from radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags. This was in response to Walmart's 2003 mandate requiring its suppliers to use RFID technology. In 2007, after Walmart ended its RFID mandate, T3Ci acquired VeriSign's Retail Data Services business unit and rebranded as Retail Solutions, Inc., shifting its focus to point-of-sale data and "demand signal repositories". The company was acquired by IRI Worldwide in October 2020.

RSi serves CPG manufacturers and retailers by providing data management, reporting, and business intelligence applications. Its core products, Retail Visibility and Retail Intelligence, are part of the "Retail Execution Management" platform, which enables clients to analyze sales data to improve execution. The business model is primarily subscription-based, offering access to its cloud-based applications and analytics tools. The company also offers certain raw daily data to suppliers at no charge while providing more detailed web-based reports for purchase.

Keywords: demand signal analytics, retail data, business intelligence, SaaS, CPG industry, point of sale data, supply chain analytics, on-shelf availability, omnichannel sales, retail execution management, IRI, consumer packaged goods, data management, retail intelligence, demand signal repositories, retail visibility, inventory management, operational productivity