MFP
Merchandise financial planning (MFP), or Weekly Sales, Stock and Intake (WSSI) if that is the term your team uses, on one live grid updating as the week trades. Learn how a WSSI works or let Merchmix Intelligence re-forecast as the numbers move, so the plan your team opens on Monday reflects what actually happened last week.
Sales, stock, intake and margin update as the week trades, with variance against plan visible on the same line. Merchmix Intelligence recalculates your open to buy and flags where cover is drifting, so your team moves before the markdown is the only option left.
Sales, stock and intake sit on one weekly grid, so cover is a number the team can see moving rather than something reconstructed after the fact.
Edit forecast values directly in the grid, navigate department to category to subcategory, and restore any earlier version. Once committed, the weekly plan becomes the record allocation, replenishment and finance work from.
Merchandisers, planners, buyers and heads of trading work in the same grid, and finance plans against the same committed numbers rather than a separate model.
Sales, stock, intake and margin land in the same place they are planned, so the weekly trade review reads straight from the grid without manual copy-paste.
Now
5.9 wks
Target
6 to 8 wks
Trend
Falling
Every discrepancy between what your systems say you hold and what actually sold, priced and totalled across store and floor planning, so you know what it is costing before it reaches the P&L.
Plan and compare across stores, ecommerce and marketplaces, with exceptions surfaced against the plan rather than found later.
Spot margin pressure early, uncover what's driving it, and take action faster with allocation and replenishment aligned to stock cover. Merchmix turns weekly performance data into clear, actionable insights that help you improve profitability and protect growth.
Buyers commit long before the season proves them right. Merchmix holds the open to buy position on the same grid your team trades from, so the budget is checked at the point of decision rather than reconciled weeks later.
What is left to spend, at cost or retail, by department.
Orders raised count against the buy the moment they go out.
Sales, intake and forecast changes feed the position. No separate sheet.
Every order tested against remaining budget before approval.
Merchmix reads cover, remaining budget and forecast demand together, then proposes a quantity your buyer can adjust, approve or reject.
Cover falls below the threshold you set, by style, size and location.
A proposed quantity, with the cover, budget and demand behind it shown.
Your buyer adjusts or approves, and the commitment lands against the buy.
Sophie Langford
Senior Buyer, Sydney Australia
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