Merchandising sits at the crossroads of strategy and operational execution. Defining the offer means reconciling omnichannel requirements, brand identity and operational constraints - from budget framing (open-to-buy, margins, growth assumptions) down to assortment construction by store cluster. Our work is to give those decisions a platform that reconciles commercial performance, brand coherence and operational excellence.
Our added value
A practical command of merchandising planning from budget framing to in-store execution: fast product cycles, multi-dimensional offers (categories, clusters, channels, brands, currencies) and the permanent trade-off between attractiveness and profitability. We combine that operational understanding with deep EPM platform mastery - notably Anaplan for Merchandise & Assortment Planning - and deliver clear, visual tools your teams adopt because they map to how the season is actually run.
Our convictions for your merchandising project
- The buy plan is only as good as the budget framing above it - turnover ambition, purchase budget and markdown risk must be modeled together, not in three files.
- Assortment decisions belong at cluster level: intelligent store segmentation beats both uniform ranges and store-by-store heroics.
- In-season reactivity is a process, not a dashboard: reallocation and markdown decisions need a weekly rhythm with the data already reconciled.
- Product data governance - hierarchies, prices, margins, currencies - is part of the project scope, not an assumption.
Our merchandising expertise domains
Business planning & budget - Frame the season with a solid budget approach: turnover targets, purchase budgets sized against markdown risk, and margin scenarios that surface sell-through risks before commitments are signed.
Collection planning - Cascade financial ambition down to buyer-facing collection plans: hypotheses refined by category and family, with style and color-level performance targets that sharpen purchase relevance.
Assortment & purchase quantities - Cluster-based assortment construction respecting capacity constraints, with the quantitative analysis and synthetic views buyers need to refine quantities and track execution.
In-season management - Live product performance monitoring with reallocation, retention and rebalancing strategies that optimize sell-through and assortment representation while the collection trades.
