Store-level assortment planning software

Category and assortment planning is the retail process of deciding what to offer and how much of it each store or channel gets for an upcoming season. It covers collection design, localized buying, size and prepack optimization, and the management of limited-time promotional products.

Assortment localization gives markets, store clusters or regions different products or different timing, so each one matches its local customer demand. Solvoyo does this with store clustering and store-level forecasting. You can set different assortments, sizes, in-store dates and depth targets for each segment. For background, read our post on cluster analysis in retail.

Solvoyo forecasts a new product from the most similar items in its sales history, found with attribute-based models. It turns their sales into store-level demand estimates for the new item, based on its category, price point and product attributes. Similar item selection favors recent history, so the estimate reflects current demand trends. For apparel and fashion retailers, the forecast feeds initial allocation, which sets the right quantities and size ratios for each cluster from day one. Product attributes digitalized at the development stage in product lifecycle management flow into forecasting and buying, with no manual re-entry between development and planning.

Size and prepack optimization sets the size breakdown and prepack combinations for each store or region, based on size-selling analysis of similar items. It reduces size imbalances and inventory costs and improves on-shelf availability for the sizes customers buy. For more on the size problem in fashion, read solving the size dilemma with AI.

Solvoyo monitors every active item continuously against its sell-through trajectory and turns the result into recommendations. Items tracking ahead of plan get automated repeat-buy recommendations. Underperformers get markdown recommendations, sized against remaining selling life and exit dates. Solvi, Solvoyo’s AI planning agent, lists prioritized action items with their quantified business impact, so merchants start with the highest-consequence exceptions and skip building their own analysis from a WSSI report.

Yes. Solvoyo connects to ERP and PLM systems in real time. It generates purchase orders automatically, syncs master data and reconciles plans across systems, so nobody re-enters data by hand and errors go down.

Retailers using Solvoyo report planning cycles that shrink from days to hours. AI recommendation acceptance rates exceed 90%, and measurable business results show up within three to six months of go-live.