Footwear & Sportswear Industry Solutions

Accurate demand predictions ensuring your sportswear and footwear meet market needs

Inventory missteps, broken size sets, or poor timing – what is impacting your profitability?

Industry Challenges

High SKU Complexity

Multiple size, color, and style variants across genders and regions increase inventory fragmentation, often leading to broken assortments and excess inventory.

Demand Volatility

From new sneaker drops to seasonal activewear collections, demand fluctuates rapidly based on trends, influencer endorsements, and athlete collaborations– making accurate forecasting essential.

Multichannel Presence

Maintaining unified inventory visibility and real-time stock sync across multiple avenues of customer shopping, like marketplaces, brand websites, and retail stores, is critical to avoid missed sales.

Long Lead Times

Global sourcing and longer manufacturing cycles for footwear and performance gear require brands to plan with high precision and reduce dependency on buffers.

Size Curve & Fit Returns

Mismatched size distribution and poor planning lead to higher return rates and customer dissatisfaction, especially in online orders where fit is crucial.

Seasonal Spikes

Back-to-school, festive, or sports season surges can overwhelm unprepared systems, causing understocking at high-demand locations and overstocking elsewhere.

Improvement in inventory health

99.9

Inventory Delivery and Order
Fulfillment Rate

Improvement in warehouse efficiency

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Purpose-Built Solutions for Footwear & Sportswear Retail

Increff’s modular platform helps brands tackle the industry's biggest pain points with speed and precision.

Capabilities

Store-Specific Optimization
Trend-Aligned Assortment Planning
Dynamic Allocation & Inter-Store Transfers
Unified Inventory Across Channels
Markdown Optimization & Inventory Aging Control
Regional Utilization & Smart Fulfillment
Scalable & Fast to Deploy

Store-Specific Optimization

Use real-time sales and trends to plan ideal size sets for each store and channel. Match top styles with top stores to maximize ROI. Reduce broken size sets and improve inventory health by up to 13%.

Trend-Aligned Assortment Planning

Leverage data-backed demand forecasts to build collections aligned with consumer buying patterns, social trends, and past performance, improving full-price sell-through.

Dynamic Allocation & Inter-Store Transfers

Ensure bestsellers are always available where they’re needed. Increff’s auto-reallocation engine helps brands improve ROS by up to 28% by moving inventory from slow to fast-moving stores.

Unified Inventory Across Channels

Achieve real-time inventory sync across warehouses, stores, D2C setups, and marketplaces, fulfilling orders much faster.

Markdown Optimization & Inventory Aging Control

Identify slow-moving styles early and trigger smart markdown recommendations. Clear inventory faster without deep discounting, preserving margins.

Regional Utilization & Smart Fulfillment

Improve delivery speed and reduce logistics costs by allocating inventory across warehouses based on local demand, enabling faster regional fulfillment and better platform ratings.