Assortment Planning Software
White Paper
Solving Broken Apparel, Fashion & Luxury Supply Chains
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Integrate Merchandise Planning goals into your Assortment Planning process
o9’s Assortment planning enables you to analyze your business trends and convert them to your assortment strategies. This solution can produce assortment recommendations by product attribute, location as well as carryforward styles. Users gain efficiencies with easy reconciliation visibility to MFP targets.
Move on from traditional store clustering models
Traditionally store clustering is based on sell-out data but with o9 you can build store clustering on any store attribute ranging from traffic, consumer profiles, location, and size to name a few. These clusters can also be incorporated within other o9 solutions like MFP and Allocation. Use integrated analytics to recommend number of style options.
"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
"o9 is moving the team’s workload and energy away from executing mundane, tedious tasks like determining how many units of each SKU go to each store every single week. We're moving them upstream into preseason planning, into developing strategy, and then the system executes automatically."
Associate Vice President of Allocations and Merchandise
"The o9 platform unlocked significant processes for us in order to effectively address changes in our volumes and to align those volumes to our labor capabilities at our distribution centers."
Senior Manager Supply Chain Planning
"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
"o9 was able to significantly improve our forecast accuracy."
Senior Vice President of Corporate SCM and Logistics
o9 Solutions named a leader in The Forrester Wave™ for Collaborative Supply Networks
o9 Solutions recognized as a Leader in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Supply Chain Planning Solutions
Top reasons
Why customers choose o9 for their assortment planning software
Use localized assortment planning to create optimal product mixes with various assortment strategies that are based on and linked to product attributes.
Maintain healthy inventory levels by leveraging AI/ML capabilities that recommend buys based on KPIs and external data trends.
Upgrade to future-proof, scalable systems by ditching spreadsheets and using cloud-based systems to collaborate effectively and in real-time.
Increase revenue through assortment hyper localization and omnichannel assortment plans. Maximize and improve profitability across different channels through more strategic decision-making.
Integrated assortment across all product types: basic, seasonal, fashion, hardlines, softlines, or grocery. Including prescriptive product recommendations for future seasons or years.
AI/ML-driven store clustering & options recommendations with conceptual line planning and space allocation.
Post-game analysis for prior season performance with integrated sales, margin, inventory, and receipt plan.
Prescriptive product recommendations for future season or year assortment strategy and detail assortment build.
Plan better. Create an efficient supply chain. Make the planet a healthy place to live
An efficient and proactive supply chain makes our planet a more healthy place to live and your employees happier in their jobs.
o9’s next-generation assortment planning software capabilities are helping global enterprises improve planning accuracy, which leads to better plans and improved financial performance. And when a business plans better, it creates operational efficiencies that significantly reduce wastage.
The integrated planning efficiencies delivered by o9 are helping corporations do more, be more and mean more, internally and to the world at large.
