Retail customers shopping in store

“If you are looking for a new retail system, look no further.”

Ash Hardwick

Director, Cotton On Group

Plan · Retail Directions Platform

Merchandise Management

Plan, buy and manage your range on live data, not last month's spreadsheet.

The Challenge

Driving by looking in the rear-view mirror

Merchandise decisions made on yesterday's data, lead to overstock in one store and stockouts in another, markdowns that erode margin, and buyers flying blind.

How Retail Directions solves it

Make decisions based on live demand

Retail Directions gives merchandisers live sales, gross margin and inventory data to drive ranging, open-to-buy, allocation, replenishment as well as stock balancing and consolidation, so the right stock is in the right place at the right time.

What you get

  • Item registration and range management
  • Sales and profit budgeting in three dimensions (time, location, items)
  • Financial category planning
  • Purchase orders for direct delivery, x-dock, and break-bulk
  • Purchase allocations
  • On-demand allocations
  • Advanced algorithms for store stock replenishment
  • Advanced stock redistribution supporting store balancing and consolidation
  • Markdown and promotion planning
  • Supplier with item compliance and factories tracking management
  • Marain and sell-through analysis using the unique SalesCube® tool. Supporting analysis in three dimensions

In practice

The right stock, in the right place

Merchandisers act on what's actually selling, where. Higher sales, fewer markdowns, fewer stockouts, healthier margin. Stronger brand.

Retail customers shopping in store

“If you are looking for a new retail system, look no further.”

Ash Hardwick · Director, Cotton On Group

See Merchandise Management in action

Contact us and we will demonstrate exactly how it works for a retailer like yours.