Identify New Product and Supplier Options with Microsoft Copilot

This step-by-step guide shows retail merchandising managers how to use Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat to research and evaluate suppliers faster across five workflow stages: rating potential suppliers against key criteria in a comparative table, assessing supplier financial viability and certifications, analyzing customer satisfaction data and online sentiment, verifying product compliance with relevant standards, and drafting vendor communications and internal approval requests. Each stage includes ready-to-use Copilot prompts — for example, 'Create a table rating potential suppliers for [product/category]' — and connects to Microsoft's Prompt Gallery for additional merchandising templates.