Know What to Buy. How Much to Buy. Where to Place It.

Integrate merchandise planning and assortment execution to maximize sell-through, reduce overstock, and drive profitable growth.

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Comprehensive Merchandise Planning for Complex Retail Operations

Transform top-level goals into detailed, actionable merchandise plans. Any changes made at the store, department, promotion, or purchasing levels are automatically reflected in overall merchandise and financial plans. This gives a unified view with unmatched clarity. Our Open-to-Buy plan serves as a strategic guide for purchasing decisions, helping you manage inventory levels efficiently across all sales channels to maximize both profitability and inventory turnover.

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Sales Performance Improvement

Increase Sales by up to 25% with Optimized Assortments

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Inventory Turnover

Reduce Overstock by 30% with Intelligent Assortment Planning

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Customer Satisfaction

Enhance Customer Satisfaction by 20% with the Right Product Mix

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Reduction in Stockouts

Reduce Stockouts by 40%

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Product Availability

Ensure 98% Product Availability

Why Assortment Planning is Key to Retail Success
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Drive Revenue Growth

Strategic assortment planning ensures that product mix aligns with customer preferences and purchasing trends. By offering right products at the right time, you boost sales, increase average transaction values, and drive overall revenue growth.

Drive Strategic Decision-Making

Leverage data-driven insights to make smarter business decisions. Assortment planning provides critical information about sales patterns, consumer behavior, and market trends, helping you make informed choices about product selections and promotional strategies.

Focus on High-Performing Products

Assortment planning allows you to identify and prioritize high-performing products. By optimizing your inventory based on sales performance, you can enhance sales efficiency and focus on items that drive revenue.

Optimize Store Performance

Tailored assortments for each store based on local market needs and demographics can significantly enhance store performance. By aligning product offerings with the specific preferences of customers in each location, you improve sales efficiency and boost store profitability.

Reduce Wastage and Costs

By optimizing your product mix and aligning inventory with actual demand, you can significantly reduce wastage and associated costs. Efficient assortment planning minimizes the risk of unsold stock and markdowns, contributing to a more sustainable and cost-effective retail operation.

Drive Success in Every Category with Data-Driven Planning

Review past performance and align it with strategic direction. Create a detailed open-to-buy plan by channel, ensuring transparency at every hierarchy level.

Spot opportunities within categories to scale up or scale down, driven by trends and forecasts.

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Enhance Purchasing Decisions

Integrate inventory strategy with sales objectives, whether for individual channels or across your entire retail operation, for enhanced flexibility and insight.

Factor in markdowns and reductions directly into your inventory and purchasing plans.

Enhance Retail Success with Precision Assortment Planning

Intelligent Demand Forecasting

Accurately predict product demand.

Flexible Store Clustering

Group stores by performance, size, or location and more.

Customizable Assortment Plans

Create and adjust plans based on real-time data.

Seamless Integration

Works with existing retail systems and OTB plans.

Data-Driven Decision Making

Get insights to optimize inventory.

Increase Margins

Maintain real-time visibility into key margin metrics for each channel and the entire business, ensuring your merchandise strategy aligns with profitability targets.

Build detailed plans for promotional and permanent markdowns to sustain profitability.

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Pre-season and In-Season Planning

Streamline your planning process with powerful plan seeding tools and effortless integration with in-season data, minimizing manual intervention.

Adapt your in-season open-to-buy strategy with ease, responding swiftly to evolving business conditions.

Enterprise-level approval workflows: Multiple users, managers, and an efficient approval process.

The right assortment planning tool helps with product selection, optimize inventory, and align with market trends for superior retail performance.

Reach out to explore how tailored assortment planning can refine your product mix and maximize your retail efficiency.

  • 99.9% In-Stock Percentage
  • 50% Reduction in Lost Sales
  • 30% Reduction in Inventory Cost

Benefits of Merchandise & OTB Planning

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Flexibility

Open-to-Buy planning empowers retailers to carefully manage inventory levels, striking the right balance between overstock and shortages. Achieving this equilibrium minimizes markdowns and ensures retailers can capitalize on sales opportunities.

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Enhanced Cash Flow

By optimizing Open-to-Buy planning, businesses avoid locking up capital in excess inventory. This allows retailers to reallocate financial resources to other vital areas like marketing and business expansion.

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Increased Customer Satisfaction

Open-to-Buy planning helps retailers consistently meet customer demand by ensuring products are readily available. This reliability strengthens customer loyalty and promotes repeat purchases, which are critical for growth in today's competitive retail environment.

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Enhanced Decision-Making

OTB provides retailers with a structured framework for inventory planning and purchasing decisions. This allows retailers to focus on products that align with sales targets, allowing for data-driven and informed choices.

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Increased Profitability

By optimizing inventory and reducing markdowns, retailers can improve profit margins. Proper use of OTB contributes to more efficient inventory turnover, which ultimately drives profitability.

Transform Retail with Precision Assortment Planning

Deliver the Right Products, Drive Growth, and Enhance Customer Experience.

Assortment Planning ensures that the right products are available at the right time and place. Our solution offers data-driven insights to help retailers curate the perfect product mix for every store, improving customer satisfaction and boosting profitability.

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Explore how data-driven insights and smart curation lead to exceptional product mixes tailored just for your needs. Don't just imagine the possibilities - experience them firsthand!

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The right open-to-buy solution can help to measure productivity, keep stock, provide recommendations, factor in market trends, trigger notifications and guide purchasing and markdown decisions.

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