Fashion & apparel
The season never sits still.
Size and fit curves, colorways, drops, markdowns and returns, planned in one place, recalculated in seconds.
Fashion breaks generic planning.
A mid-market retailer runs 10+ systems and 50+ spreadsheets before merchmix. None was built for a size curve.
- Size and fit curves
- core sets the buy by size, per store.
- Colorways at high SKU counts
- Ranges and options planned in core, colorway by colorway.
- Drops and the critical path
- forge runs sketch to costed and approved.
- Sell-through against a weekly WSSI (MFP)
- core moves sales, stock and intake together, weekly.
- Markdown exposure
- core previews a price change before you publish.
- Stock in the wrong store
- core plus allocates and refills; yukti rebalances between stores.
- Returns
- UNCONFIRMED
Drops run on dates.
forge holds every date from sketch to approved. A slip shows the day it happens.
Sketch
The style starts in forge.
Bought
The buy sits inside OTB in core.
Allocated
core plus sends it to the stores that sell it.
Traded
atlas shows sell-through by size, live.
Sell-through changes the buy.
The file planners live inside: 65 MB, 45 tabs, 3 years, $100M of budget, 10 hours a week to rebuild. core recalculates it in seconds.
Sizes sell at different speeds.
Size analysis reads sales, stock cover and size mix, then recommends quantities by size and store. Approved recommendations pass into the next range plan.
| Store | XS | S | M | L | XL | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KingsbridgeA | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| NorthgateA | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| BaysideB | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| EastgateB | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| RiversideC | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| Online— | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| Total | · | · | · | · | · | · |
Proof
“You have no idea how much time you’ve saved me. At least 7 or 8 hours a week.”
A planning lead at a fashion retailer, on size analysis.
Stock lands in the wrong store.
yukti reads every season you have traded, then rebalances between stores, raises replenishment, cuts the purchase order and creates the new style, inside rules you set.
Mid-market budgets already cover this.
About 1/10 the cost of enterprise suites, with no per-seat fees. Live in 12 to 15 weeks, end to end.
Questions, answered.
Does merchmix handle size curves?
Yes, by size and store, from your sales and size mix.
Do you work with fashion retailers today?
Yes. merchmix is in pilot with fashion and pharmacy retailers.
Can it hold a drop calendar and a critical path?
Yes. forge holds the dates from sketch to approved; core holds the trading calendar.
What does it cost?
About 1/10 the cost of enterprise suites, with no per-seat fees.
Can we test it on our own range?
Yes. A free 6-week POC on your own data, no contract.
Your next season starts here.
1 hour with sales and product, then 6 free weeks on your range.
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