Other tools plan what should happen. Merchmix executes the response, the moment the signals change.
Planning is not execution
You signed off the range and the budget. But if your system cannot write that plan back as POs, allocations, or markdown executions, your team is still trapped doing manual spreadsheet updates to make it happen.
The disconnect in the daily trade
A planning workspace shows you where actuals miss the budget. It cannot auto-calculate chases, VM modifications, or replenishment orders. The lag between knowing you need to trade and executing it is where margin leaks.
Isolated tools create operations gaps
When planning lives in its own dedicated tool, store layouts, warehouse capacity, and POS realities are ignored. Merchmix brings planning, operations, and store execution into one workspace.
Toolio plans the range. Merchmix runs the store.
Toolio is a specialist merchandise planning application designed for building budgets, OTB and assortments. Merchmix covers the same planning layer but carries the workflow through to execution, connecting plans directly to allocation (ARRO), replenishment, visual merchandising (Planogram/VM) and AI-led daily trade recommendations. This comparison outlines the execution and operations capabilities of both systems.
merchmix.Connected Execution PLANNING & OPERATIONS Action layer AI, ALLOCATION & VM | ToolioInventory-led BUDGET & OTB Workspace layer REPORTS & VISUALS |
|---|---|
✓ WSSI, OTB and Range Planning | ✓ WSSI, OTB and Range Planning |
✓ Option planning and range building | ✓ Option planning and range building |
✓ Store-level allocation and replenishment (ARRO) | ✓ Descriptive inventory visibility |
✓ Visual merchandising, store layouts and Planogram VM | ✓ No visual VM or layout mapping |
✓ AI-led daily trade recommendations and Decision Log | ✓ Planning workspace and report lists |
✓ Approved write-back to ERP, POS and ecommerce systems | ✓ Approved write-back support |
✓ Weather, competitor movement and external market signals | ✓ No external market signals |
✓ Decision tracking with full audit trails and approvals | ✓ Planning workflows and approvals |
✓ Truly modular: start with one module, add as you grow | ✓ Single all-in planning block |
✓ Works with your existing systems, with approved write-back Book a Demo |
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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