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Common apparel & footwear
challenges by role
- “I have difficulty matching products with changing consumer behavior, trends (e.g. casualization and choices).”
- “I have to launch an increasing number of new and personalized items.”
- “Massive volumes of customer, supplier, product, and market data are available but not being used effectively to drive decisions and business results.”
- “Our market visit reports are all on email – no way to reference them systematically.”
- “We have limited Visibility to NPI, Marketing, Promotion & Price Changes – Extremely manual processes.”
- “There is complex coordination between different actors, where often the manufacturing is not owned by our brand.”
- “We have a lack of collaboration and visibility between various links in the supply chain, causing poor insights into SKU levels leading to over/under stocks.”
- “Allocation of constrained supply is often contentious and sub-optimal.”
- “We have store footprint rationalization due to consumer demand shifts to e-commerce.”
- “We are seeing significant shifts in demand across channels and products that are hard to forecast."
- “Managing unique seasonality and SKU variances across my regions is challenging.”
- “Proliferation of product offers due to new collection launches, are resulting in higher inventory in the store.”
- “Slow, siloed planning processes without clear view on constraints lead to alignment gap between planning, finance and operations execution."
- “Increasing volatility of raw material and commodity costs are creating headwinds.”
- “Our S&OP process is conducted on PowerPoint – A big productivity drain driving highly ineffective meetings.”
- “Our AOP /finance process is disconnected from the rolling forecasts of our S&OP process.”
- “Our growth return on marketing/trade spend is not meeting expectations.”
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Top 5 quick-win o9 capabilities that apparel & footwear clients are starting with
AI/ML Powered Forecasting and Demand Planning
AI Forecasting
AI/ML Powered Forecasting and Demand Planning
Using market knowledge, unleash the potential of AI/ML forecasting to more accurately predict demand. By better linking demand and supply, shape demand to maximize both short-term and long-term revenues and margins.
Merchandise Financial Planning
Merchandise Financial Planning
Merchandise Financial Planning
Ensure predictable financial performance. Align all financial, strategic, Top-down, Middle-Out and Bottom-Up planning processes to improve efficiency, quality and accuracy.
Assortment & Allocation Planning
Assortment & Allocation Planning
Assortment & Allocation Planning
Utilize advanced allocation, segmentation, and optimization techniques to proactively position inventory to service demand. Utilize machine learning on shopper big data to offer hyper-localized assortments that are relevant to consumer demographics.
Supply Chain Analytics, Planning & Control Tower
Retail Control Tower
Supply Chain Analytics, Planning & Control Tower
Respond to Demand changes and supply disruptions in real-time with advanced Demand/Supply Matching capabilities, analytics and scenario evaluation all aided by the most advanced supply chain digital twin in the market.
Market & Supply Chain Data - Knowledge Foundation
Market Intelligence
Market & Supply Chain Data - Knowledge Foundation
Connect the dots across products, channels, customers, and markets. Leverage the vast amounts of data now available – e.g., Shopper Loyalty Data, mobility data, POS data, customer trends, economic activity, etc. – to better understand your markets and customer demand drivers.