Merchandise Planning Software for MFP, WSSI and OTB
Solvoyo’s merchandise planning software runs merchandise financial planning (MFP), weekly sales, stock and intake (WSSI) tracking, and Open-to-Buy (OTB) on one plan. Set targets top-down or middle-out at any level of the merchandise hierarchy, and Solvoyo disaggregates them automatically. Solvi, our AI planning agent, flags repeat-buy and markdown risk early enough to reallocate budget.
3-8x
Planner Productivity
18-23%
Stock Cover Reduction
Donโt take our word for it
“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.”
“With a network of 9800 stores, supply chain disruptions and uncertainty are normal for us, we keep opening hundreds of new stores and multiple DCs every year. With advanced analytics and automation, we planned for this level of complexity way ahead of our competitors.โ
โ80% of IT tools investment fails if the partners don’t strive to continuously improve and adapt. That is what sets our partnership with Solvoyo apart.โ
“Shorter lead times create opportunities to increase the budget allocated for in-season buying decisions based on sales performance and trends. With that comes the need for leveraging advanced analytics to support these buying decisions. This is where Solvoyo adds value. We enable data-driven decision-making by providing insights, alerts, and actionable recommendations.”
โSolvoyo has been a very effective solution partner in our fast growth and digital transformation journey. Using Solvoyoโs platform for fashion planning solutions, we were able to bring automation to buy planning and size optimization decisions.โ
“When I write or speak about supply chain management, I always state that the purpose of a supply chain is to do one thing โ enable growth. I believe Solvoyo is the optimal supply chain platform to help companies achieve the growth they desire.”
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Solvoyo Platform
Results at a Glance
3-8x
Planning productivity
200 to 300 bps
Gross margin improvement
18-23%
Stock cover reduction
95%+
Decision Automation on daily operational planning
How Merchandise Planning Works in Solvoyo
Scenario planning at any level of the hierarchy
Run unlimited scenarios and compare versions side by side. Adjust budgets at any level of your hierarchy as conditions change.
One shared view of sales, stock and receipts
See sales trends, inventory levels, and incoming receipts as they happen, with one shared view across categories, channels, and teams.
In-season buying guided by GMROI
GMROI-based recommendations and automated diagnostics help allocate remaining budgets to the categories and items that drive the most value. After the buy, omnichannel replenishment and allocation allocates new-season inventory to stores and replenishes them.
One planning cycle from annual budget to in-season buying
From annual budgets to weekly operations to in-season buying, every stage flows into the next with no manual reconciliation. Merchandise hierarchy targets from MFP reconcile with SKU-level assortment and buying decisions in assortment planning and store clustering.
What Solvi does across MFP, line planning and OTB
Solvi, Solvoyo’s AI planning agent, shows where the season is tracking against the financial plan and recommends what the merchandising and buying team should do about it, before the window to act closes.
In MFP, Solvi continuously monitors sales, margin, and inventory performance against plan at every level of the merchandise hierarchy. It flags categories where cumulative sell-through is diverging from the financial target early enough to trigger a budget reallocation.
In line planning, Solvi analyzes attribute-level performance from prior seasons to identify which product dimensions consistently drove sell-through: price bands, fabrications, colorways and silhouettes. Those attributes are standardized at the development stage in product lifecycle management and flow directly into line, assortment and buy planning.
In OTB management, Solvi monitors live category performance against budget. It identifies which categories have the sell-through velocity to support a repeat buy before exit date, and it sizes the recommendation against remaining selling life, lead time, and MOQ constraints. It also flags categories where the current stock cover trajectory will leave residual inventory at the end of the season if intake phasing is not adjusted now. For the step after the buy, read our post on full-price sell-through through allocation and replenishment.
Solvi works continuously, so planning and buying teams see these decisions before the weekly buying review. It puts a margin and revenue figure on every recommended action and ranks them, so the biggest financial decisions come first.
Solvoyo Differentiators
Autonomous Decision Making
Executes high-quality supply chain decisions with little to no planner intervention.
Recommendations Planners Trust
Recommendation quality drives 95%+ user acceptance, so planners accept and execute the recommendations at scale.
Optimization + AI + Heuristics
Combines mathematical rigor and machine intelligence to outperform rule-based planning.
Real-World Constraint Modeling
Builds real-world operational constraints directly into every decision the system makes.
Network Wide Objective Solving
Optimizes cost, service, inventory, and feasibility across the full supply chain at once.
Unified Data and Execution
Connects data, planning, diagnostics, and action in one system built for execution.
See MFP, WSSI and OTB in a Demo
Request a demo to see merchandise financial planning, WSSI and Open-to-Buy run on one plan in Solvoyo’s supply chain decision automation platform.
Frequently Asked Questions
Merchandise financial planning (MFP) is the retail process of setting sales targets, margin goals, inventory budgets, and Open to Buy (OTB) plans across categories, channels, and seasons. Weekly performance and in-season buying are both measured against it, so it anchors strategic retail planning.
Solvoyo’s MFP solution lets merchandising and finance teams set sales targets, margin goals, and inventory budgets top-down, middle-out, or bottom-up, at any level of the product hierarchy, channel, location, and time period. AI-powered scenario planning replaces manual spreadsheet cycles. Adjustments cascade automatically to lower levels, and actual performance is tracked continuously against plan, so course corrections happen during the season.
WSSI is a tactical planning process that tracks weekly sales performance, inventory levels, forecasts, and expected receipts in one continuous view. It supports operational decision-making throughout the season: planners see trends and gaps while there is still time to act on them.
Open to Buy management controls how much budget remains available for in-season purchasing after committed orders and on-hand inventory are accounted for. Solvoyo automates the calculations and integrates with approved MFP targets. GMROI-based recommendations then show how to allocate the remaining budget.
MFP sets the strategic targets at the start of the season. WSSI tracks performance against those targets every week and supports operational adjustments. OTB manages in-season buying decisions and keeps purchases aligned with the approved MFP plan as live performance data comes in.
Solvoyo’s retail planning solutions replace spreadsheet-based planning with an AI-native platform that automates routine decisions and gives every stakeholder a single version of the plan. They address five problems that erode retail margin and inflate inventory: inaccurate demand forecasting, chain-average planning that ignores store-level demand variation, disconnected tools that force manual reconciliation across merchandise and supply decisions, slow planning cycles that miss market shifts, and markdown decisions made too late to protect margin. The platform covers fashion, grocery, e-commerce, and omnichannel retail. Solvoyo’s pricing and markdown optimization covers the markdown problem from first price to final markdown.
Yes. Solvoyo offers real-time, bi-directional integration with ERP systems. It syncs approved plans, purchase orders, and actual sales data, which removes manual reconciliation and carries planning decisions straight into execution.
Solvoyo supports top-down, bottom-up, and middle-out planning in the same solution. Top-down targets disaggregate automatically to lower levels of the hierarchy. Bottom-up changes reconcile back against approved targets without manual effort.