Other systems stop at what happened. Merchmix helps your team decide what's next, the moment the signals are there.
Automation stops at the buy button
Everything after the sale is automated: orders, stock, fulfilment, accounting. What to buy, how much, and where it goes is still a spreadsheet job.
The plan never meets the operation
Buying and planning happen outside the system, so every decision is re-keyed into operations and loses accuracy on the way.
Reporting tells you what happened
You can see performance after the fact, but nothing turns those numbers into the next buy, the next allocation, the next move.
Brightpearl runs everything after the buy button. Merchmix runs everything that decides it.
Both Merchmix and Brightpearl describe themselves as a retail operating system. The difference is which half of retail each one runs. Brightpearl runs the back office after the buy button: order management, inventory, accounting, purchasing, warehouse and fulfilment. Merchmix runs the front office that decides the buy: MFP/WSSI, OTB, range planning, allocation, replenishment, Planogram/VM and AI-led trade actions. Run them together, or expand into the full Merchmix stack with ERP, PLM, WMS and OMS when the time comes.
merchmix.Merchandising-led PLANNING & TRADING Action layer AI, ALLOCATION & VM | BrightpearlOperations-led STOCK, ORDERS & ACCOUNTING Back office layer FULFILMENT & FINANCE |
|---|---|
✓ MFP/WSSI, OTB and range planning | ✓ Inventory and stock control |
✓ Option planning and range building | ✓ Order management and fulfilment |
✓ ERP, POS, ecommerce and supplier data ingestion | ✓ Sales channel and ecommerce integrations |
✓ Weather, search demand and external market data streams | ✓ Purchasing, supplier and warehouse workflows |
✓ Competitor product movement and pricing signals | ✓ Built-in accounting and financial management |
✓ AI forecasting and merchandising recommendations | ✓ Automation engine for post-purchase operations |
✓ Allocation and replenishment by SKU, store and week | |
✓ ARRO workflows for stock movement and availability | |
✓ Planogram, VM execution and store-level action | |
✓ Works with your existing systems, with approved write-back |
From first signal to shop floor.
Core is the commercial engine of Merchmix. It connects budgets, planning, range building and daily trade in one place, reading years of your sales history alongside live signals from every connected system. Plug it into the stack you already run, with full write-back to your ERP, OMS or Shopify.
Direction
Before a single budget is set, Merchmix reads your history and your signals and shows where growth can come from, and what's holding it back.
Budget
Growth direction becomes commercial targets: sales, GP, stock investment, OTB, down to category level. One budget, one version.
Control
The MFP/WSSI turns the budget into a weekly sales, stock and intake plan. Continuity protects your never-out lines before gaps become lost sales.
Range
Option counts shape the assortment, range boards turn it into product, and cross costing checks supplier, landed cost and margin before you commit the buy.
Moments
Trading moments and marketing spend planned against the same numbers as the range, so the calendar and the buy never disagree.
Trade and review
The daily beat. Merchmix surfaces the ranked move, your team approves, one click executes it across your stack, and the Decision Log records every call. Product reviews feed what worked back into the next budget. The loop closes.
One platform. Built to grow with you.
Merchmix helps your team plan what to buy, put stock where demand is, and keep the shop floor selling. Every module stands alone: buy one, buy a few, or run the whole platform. Most retailers start with Core, because that is where it hurts.
ARRO
Allocation and replenishment by SKU, store, channel and week, using live stock, rate of sale, cover, store grades and size curves.
Start where the pressure is. Add modules as your team grows, with every workflow connected to the same sales, stock and planning truth.
Planogram
2D and 3D floor plans, VM guides, compliance and fixture-level ROI connected to range and stock performance.
Core
Budgets, MFP/WSSI, OTB, option planning, range planning, dashboards, reporting packs, product reviews and AI actions, all connected to daily retail decisions.
ERP, POS, ecommerce and supplier data, connected in one workflow.
ERP
Products, inventory, purchasing, sales and finance workflows connected to planning and execution.
PLM
Specs, samples, suppliers and critical path linked directly to buying, planning and store execution.
WMS
Receiving, putaway, picking, packing, dispatch and warehouse KPIs tied to the same stock truth.
OMS
Routing, splits, backorders, dropship and fulfilment exceptions across every channel and location.
Built from 18+ years of retail experience.
Merchmix is shaped by retail operators, not outside observers. With 18+ years of firsthand experience across merchandising, planning, buying and inventory workflows, the founding team built Merchmix around how retail teams actually work: budgets, MFP/WSSI, OTB, range planning, allocation, replenishment, store execution and daily trade.
Built to connect your stack.
Merchmix connects to the systems you already use, giving teams one live view of sales, stock, orders, suppliers and store performance. Use it with your existing ERP, POS and ecommerce tools, or expand into the full Merchmix ecosystem when you are ready.
Truly modular. Start with the workflow that hurts most, then add more as the business grows.
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