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Allocation & Replenishment for E-commerce and Offline Retail
New season allocation
Auto Replenishment
Interstore Transfers
Special event allocation
Dark Store/DC replenishment
This case study reveals how Increff’s robust solutions are helping global brands not just keep up, but get ahead. First, discover how Increff revolutionized a leading Indian fashion retailer, helping them slash their buying cycle from a sluggish six months to a dynamic one month, enabling weekly fresh drops and unparalleled agility.
Then, learn how a world-renowned sports and lifestyle brand used Increff to power its rapid global expansion—from its initial partnership in India to a lightning-fast rollout at its European headquarters in just two months. This is more than just inventory management. It’s a look into the future of retail.
It’s almost impossible to sell deadstock after an EOSS sale. WRONG.
We, at Increff found a way. We recently helped a brand not only sell its excess stock, but do so profitably, while optimizing inventory health, and logistical costs. Want to know how?
PUMA, a global footwear leader, faced significant challenges with inventory placement, leading to order mismatches, higher logistics costs, and slower deliveries. Discover how the Regional Utilization module revolutionized their operations, ensuring the right inventory in the right regional warehouse for faster, more cost-effective fulfillment.
Unlock Higher Sales with Reduced Inventory Holding
- True ROS and Store-StyleRank™
- Intelligent Replacements & Options Increment
- Assortment & Size Mix Optimization
- Configurable Business Rules & Guardrails
- Easy Integration and Rapid Deployment
- Granular Analytics & Reporting
- Darkstore/DC Replenishment
True ROS and Store-StyleRank™
- True Rate of Sale Precision: Calculates True Rate of Sale (ROS) for every store-style-SKU by considering only healthy, in-stock sales days, removing the noise of stockouts, liquidation periods, and broken sizes.
- Advanced Ranking Algorithm: Creates unique rankings for every store–style combination, factoring in recency, seasonality, sales velocity, and revenue potential through Store-StyleRank™
- Intelligent Allocation System: Prioritizes merchandise allocation and replenishment to the highest ROI store-style-SKU combinations, ensuring the right depth at the right store at the right time.
- Local Trend Detection: Identifies local top-sellers and emerging winners accurately to minimize sales loss.
Intelligent Replacements & Options Increment
- Smart Replacement System: Suggests the closest style replacements instantly from similar attribute groups when a bestseller is out of stock, preventing lost sales from unavailability.
- Automatic Options Increment: Tailors the assortment at each store by identifying gaps and sending additional options accordingly with the support of retail allocation software.
- Historical Pattern Adaptation: Enables rapid new style merchandise allocation (even for styles with no historical data) using attribute group performance as a proxy for demand.
- Customer Experience Enhancement: Maintains merchandise variety and freshness for shoppers, boosting conversion rates and customer experience.
Assortment & Size Mix Optimization
- Local Demand Intelligence: Adapts store assortments to local demand by analyzing sales data and shopper demographics.
- Size Profile Optimization: Optimizes size distribution dynamically to ensure every location carries accurate size mix through precise inventory allocation and reduces stockouts.
- Seasonal Assortment Management: Updates product variety and size mix continuously based on seasonality, trends, and real-time performance.
- Performance-Based Inventory Control: Removes underperforming SKUs and replenishes winning options to maximize sales and minimize excess inventory with smart merchandise replenishment solution.
Configurable Business Rules & Guardrails
- Customizable Control Framework: Allows teams to set custom merchandise allocation, replenishment, and assortment parameters for every store or channel, as part of a flexible retail allocation software suite.
- Inventory Threshold Management: Enforces minimum and maximum stock thresholds to prevent over- or under-stocking at each location.
- Policy Compliance Automation: Applies automated checks and validations to ensure business policy compliance throughout inventory movement.
- Exception-Based Monitoring: Monitors sales, stock, and allocations to flag exceptions and trigger corrective actions as needed.
Easy Integration and Rapid Deployment
- Operational Continuity: Enables fast onboarding of new stores, channels, or products without disrupting ongoing operations, a hallmark of agile allocation and merchandise replenishment solutions.
- Intuitive User Experience: Provides intuitive, browser-based interfaces and built-in training support, reducing learning curves and making teams productive from day one.
- Integrations: Integrates with existing ERP, POS, and e-commerce systems, eliminating manual uploads and ensuring smooth data flow.
- Streamlined Implementation: Enables rapid onboarding and automation of allocation, merchandise replenishment and store transfer outputs with minimal IT intervention.
Granular Analytics & Reporting
- Granular Analytics: Delivers actionable insights at the most granular level, including store, SKU, and attribute dimensions.
- Performance Monitoring: Provides customizable dashboards and reports for daily performance- track sales, stock cover, sell-through, stockouts, and discounts across any hierarchy.
- Trend Analysis: Enables comparison of trends over time, such as sell-through rates, revenue, and size availability, so merchandisers can spot gaps and take corrective action quickly.
- Topseller identification: Visualizes top sellers, dead styles, and inventory health, helping identify opportunities for replenishment, pullback, or markdown optimization instantly.
- Role-Based Reporting: Creates customised reports and dashboards so every planner and CXO can access tailored reports, filters, and metrics for their roles leveraging all aspects of merchandise allocation software.
Darkstore/DC Replenishment
- Delivery Optimization: Reduces last-mile delivery costs and enables faster customer delivery through optimized inventory positioning.
- Pincode-level Demand Patterns: Optimizes inventory distribution across multiple darkstores and distribution centers based on pincode-level demand patterns.
- Automated Stock Flow: Automates replenishment from central warehouses to darkstores and regional DCs using daily sales data and DC/Darkstore/Regional warehouse stock capacity thresholds.
- Inventory Cover Management: Maintains optimal inventory cover at darkstores/DCs with frequent replenishment cycles to optimize space and reduce carrying costs.
Plug and Play with our other
Merchandising Solutions
Allocation and Replenishment
Reduce loss of sales and overstocking due to unavailability, size cuts, and stock-outs by ensuring smart, data-driven allocation and replenishment
Markdown Optimization
Boost sales and margins by leveraging real-time style and stock data for targeted, data-driven discount suggestions
Regional Utilization
Fulfill local demand faster and reduce last mile delivery costs with optimized inventory distribution across all multi-warehouse and darkstore networks.
Co-Pilot
Improve over 4x operational efficiency with intelligent reports and visual dashboards, enabling exception-based decision making.
- Allocation and Replenishment
- Markdown Optimization
- Regional Utilization
- Co-Pilot