Retail Planning, Automated From Season Plan to Store Order
Retail planning solutions cover the decisions between the season plan and the store shelf: budgets, assortment, replenishment, pricing and analytics. Solvoyo is supply chain decision automation for retail. It makes those decisions on one platform, and Solvi, its AI planning agent, ranks what still needs a planner by business impact.
What Solvoyo Automates, Decision by Decision
- Strategic and Tactical PlanningSet financial targets at any level of the merchandise hierarchy and Solvoyo disaggregates them instantly, from Open-to-Buy budgets to attribute-level sell-through analysis.
- Category & Assortment PlanningReconcile merchandise hierarchy targets with SKU-level assortment and buying decisions, and localize collections by store, cluster or region.
- Omnichannel PlanningAllocate new-season inventory with attribute-based models, replenish stores with no-touch AI-driven orders, and rebalance the network as demand shifts across channels and locations.
- Pricing OptimizationOptimize base prices, promotional offers and end-of-life markdowns at the item-channel/location level, in real time as demand and inventory shift.
- Retail Analytics & CollaborationSee performance in one unified view of descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive analytics, with Solvi surfacing exceptions and recommending prioritized action items.
How the Pieces Fit Together
Solvoyo works as a Lego platform with ready templates. Start with the one solution that fixes your most expensive decision, add the next when you are ready, and skip the rip and replace. The pieces share one plan: targets from strategic planning flow into assortment and buying decisions, and approved promotions trigger store and DC replenishment recommendations.
Related industries: Apparel, Grocery and E-commerce.
Results, in Our Customers’ Words
55%
Fewer lost sales, with 8x planner productivity, across 1,000+ stores.
Solvoyo is not just a great platform to support your replenishment process. It is also a great team to support you with insights and guidance on the road to improved efficiency. A true partnership.
Michał HalwaCFO, Studenac Market
95%
Of daily recommendations accepted, across 670 stores in 50 countries.
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.
Cem DikenPlanning Director, DeFacto
25%
Revenue growth with only 2% more stock, at 98% in-store availability.
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.
Roberto MarcheseChief Marketing Officer, Penti
Which Retail Planning Platform Supports Preseason Buying Decisions?
Solvoyo supports pre-season buying through its Strategic and Tactical Planning solution. Teams set financial targets at any level of the merchandise hierarchy, plan lines by attribute, and manage Open-to-Buy with GMROI-based recommendations on how to allocate the remaining budget. DeFacto and Penti use it for pre-season planning.
How Do MFP, Assortment and Replenishment Work Together?
Merchandise financial planning sets financial targets for the season. Category and assortment planning reconciles those targets with SKU-level buying decisions and localizes them by store cluster. Daily replenishment recommendations then move stock to stores. Planning decisions flow from one step to the next without manual re-entry.
How Does Retail Markdown Optimization Work?
Pricing Optimization decides markdown timing and depth for each SKU or color option. It weighs remaining shelf life, sell-through velocity, competitor actions and margin targets. You set the margin, sell-through and inventory goals, and Solvi recommends or executes the price moves that hit them.
What Does Automated Store Replenishment Look Like?
Omnichannel Planning sets dynamic inventory targets for each store and produces replenishment decisions daily from demand-driven models. Forecasts factor in promotions, special events and weather, and recommendations respect packing requirements and store capacity. Approved recommendations convert into executable transactions at the moment of approval.
See It Run on Your Own Data
Solvoyo automates supply chain decisions. Its recommendations are good enough that planners accept 95%+ of them. Request a demo to see how it works.
Frequently Asked Questions
Retail planning solutions cover the decisions between the season plan and the store shelf. That includes financial targets and Open-to-Buy budgets, assortment and size decisions, replenishment and allocation, pricing and markdowns, and the analytics that show how each performs. Solvoyo automates these decisions on one platform.
Yes. Solvoyo is a Lego platform with ready templates. Start with the piece that matters most to you, such as replenishment or pricing, and add the next when you are ready. There is no rip and replace, and because it is one platform, the pieces connect as you add them.
Yes. Solvoyo integrates with ERP and WMS systems in real time, including SAP, Oracle and Microsoft Dynamics. Approved plans, purchase orders and actual sales data sync between the systems. That removes manual reconciliation and moves planning decisions straight into execution.
Yes. Solvoyo replaces spreadsheet-based planning with an AI-native platform. It automates routine decisions and gives every stakeholder a single version of the plan. Planners review ready-to-approve recommendations and apply judgment where it matters most.