Commit the buy while the budget is still in view.

Merchmix is a merchandising and inventory operating system with intelligence at its core, helping retailers connect planning, buying, allocation, suppliers and execution in one platform. For buyers it runs option planning, range building, size buying and the handoff to the ERP in one workspace, with cost, margin and open to buy visible on every line, so the buy that reaches the purchase order is the one the team planned.

Recommended counts are drawn from last year and the year before, per subcategory, with variance against target shown on every line. The plan holds the split across continuity, seasonal and fashion, and ranks last season's styles on gross profit and weeks of cover so the team can decide what repeats, what drops and what still needs building to reach target.

Yes. Units, landed cost, RRP and first margin sit on every style in the range plan, and total buy value recalculates as quantities change. Committed buy is tracked against open to buy with remaining headroom visible throughout, so the budget position is read at the point of decision rather than reconciled after the order has gone.

From any year, season and week range you choose rather than a rolling annual average, because peak weeks sell a different shape to quiet ones. Sales mix is compared against stock mix for every size, the largest gap is named, and the size to prioritise is called out with the quantity that corrects it. Separate size templates per category mean footwear and dresses work to their own grids. For the underlying calculation, see our guide to size curve optimisation.

Yes. The range is grouped by supplier and pushed to your connected ERP, and purchase order raised and delivered status tracks back against every line, so the buy that was planned is the buy that was placed. The ERP remains the system of record for stock, and intake feeds back into the merchandise financial plan, which means the season's committed buy is visible in the weekly position rather than sitting in a separate file.

Costing usually happens in a spreadsheet, in three currencies, after the range is already set. Cross Costings consolidates demand across styles into a single costed brief, with specification and target cost set before it goes out, then normalises every quote so suppliers bidding in different currencies are judged on the same basis. The delta against target margin is visible on every brief, and the awarded cost lands back on the range margin rather than being re-keyed into it.

Option plans carry commercial notes per subcategory, an approval status and a full history of who changed what and when. The plan is the gate: it moves to Range Plan only once it is signed, so a range cannot be built against an option count nobody approved. Approval is a person every time, and the approved version is the one the buy is measured against at the end of the season.

No. Most retailers start with the planning layer and add allocation, suppliers or the wider system afterwards. Every module added works off the same live numbers from the day it is switched on. Onboarding runs as a six-week proof of concept on your own data, so the first thing a team sees is its own range rather than a demonstration tenant.