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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.”
Aim big, start small, iterate rapidly.
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.
"Creating high-level financial plans and targets for our biggest regional channels and top product categories has been game-changing. It has led to more strategic conversations, better quality, and more accurate plans, and grounded us to unlock long-term growth."
Director of Global Planning
"One of the clients I was working with receives over 15,000 signals per day from an S&OE perspective, and a control tower can filter out 99% of these signals, with 98% able to be resolved automatically by the system as it learns to identify, prescribe, implement, and suggest solutions to problems."
Supply Chain Lead
"The o9 platform makes our decision-making much faster. It’s also giving us a better and deeper understanding of the analytics, the cost of decisions, and now when we make those decisions, there’s a much higher degree of confidence that we actually execute."
Director of S&OP
"We had a significant reduction in expedited costs. Our target was 4 to 6 million dollars. And we achieved close to 9 million dollars…"
Vice President of Supply Chain COE
"What's really succeeding with us is the idea of the connection to the data and a best-in-class UX/UI, so the people that use the business can really make an impact."
Chief Strategy & Technology Officer
Next generation supply planning and collaboration to optimize decision making and product flow
International apparel and footwear brand deploys an AI Platform to transform end to end planning processes
Increased margins through regional inventory management with AI enabbled integrated business planning
