23K
Active SKUs
450
Stores
4
Countries
8K+
Products
3
DCs
Goals
Streamline, standardize and digitize pre-season planning process
Improve speed and efficiency in the planning and leverage advanced analytics in the buying processes
Standardize master data management throughout the product development process
Create the ability to track and reconcile top-down plans with bottom-up buying decisions
Establish visibility and KPI tracking across the organization
Challenges
Completely manual end-to-end process from concept development through purchasing
Use of a heuristic approach in forecasting rather than a scientific approach
Human errors caused by manual analysis across many spreadsheets
No data integrity, process standardization, or digital collaboration
Benefits
End-to-end integration in pre-season planning processes
Standardization of master data management, product attributing and tech-pack creation during product development to initial purchase order
Increased collaboration across teams provided by visibility
Planning future products according to attribute-based forecasting, taking into account the stock out and demand zone effects
“The digital transformation of Penti took a big step forward as we integrated our business processes on one platform. As a result of pre-season planning with Solvoyo, we reduced labor costs and balanced work distribution across the teams. Most importantly, we now act based on data-driven recommendations to pursue our higher targets.”
Deniz Zurnaci, Senior Planning Manager, Penti
About Company
Penti stands as one of Turkey’s largest apparel manufacturers and retailers, with an operational footprint spanning more than 600 stores worldwide, including over 400 domestic locations and a franchise network across 36 countries.
Achievements
98% In-Store Availability
200bps Improved Gross Margin
Don’t take our word for it
Solvoyo has been a very effective solution partner in our fast growth and digital transformation journey. Using Solvoyo’s platform for fashion planning solutions, we were able to bring automation to buy planning and size optimization decisions.
We’ve been using Solvoyo’s PLM solution for our pre-season and in-season planning processes. Solvoyo’s cloud-based PLM solution helps us digitize our manual processes and workflows. The integration between our ERP systems and the PLM solution of Solvoyo has been working well for us.
Using Solvoyo Assortment Planning has provided a huge convenience to us as we replaced our manual methods to achieve faster analysis and decision-making. We can easily see the reference products used in generating new purchase orders and review our buying decisions.
The digital transformation of Penti took a big step as we combined our business processes under one roof. As a result of pre-season planning with Solvoyo, we reduced labor costs, balanced the work distribution across our teams, and most importantly improved decision-making based on data-driven recommendations to pursue our higher targets.
Using Solvoyo’s Markdown Optimization solution, we now can achieve different business objectives. With an AI/ML predictive life cycle forecasting engine, Solvoyo prevents us from taking unnecessary discounts and thus, minimizing margin lost.
