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Merchandise Financial Planning for Retail Success
Seasonal & Event-driven Planning
Markdown Budget Planning
Multi-Hierarchy Financial Planning
Scenario based planning
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?
Case Studies
Brand Celio achieves 5% higher full-price sell-through, than planned, with Increff Merchandising Software.One of the leading French menswear brands Celio has relied on Increff Merchandising Software to manage complexity and enable accurate merchandise planning, replenishment, and inter-store transfer. Our algorithmic-driven software helped the brand to create a connected, consistent, consumer-centric retail network thus effectively managing localization, seasonality, fashion trends, and other demand complexities and achieving: ~500 bps Higher quality sell-through than targeted
600+ POS fresh allocation is done with in-depth planning
Automated replenishment runs scheduled in seamless integrations for 600+ POS
Align Financial Goals with Merchandising Plans
- Financial Alignment & Dynamic Budgeting
- Customizable Planning & KPI Management
- Scenario-Based Planning & Performance Monitoring
- Forward Integration with Merchandising Processes
Financial Alignment & Dynamic Budgeting
- Financial-merchandising alignment: Connects financial targets like sales and margins directly with inventory and product assortment decisions.
- Multi-level budgeting: Supports budgeting by categories, regions, and store hierarchies with performance tracking against financial KPIs.
- AI-powered growth suggestions: Analyzes historical data to recommend growth percentages across categories and channels with user override capability.
- Anomaly correction: Detects and corrects past overbuying or underbuying to establish clean planning baselines.
- Event-aware forecasting: Integrates sales calendars, holidays, and promotional events for accurate seasonal planning.
Customizable Planning & KPI Management
- Comprehensive KPI library: Includes built-in KPIs like revenue, sales quantity, discount percentage, ASP, gross margin, and margin percentage.
- Custom KPI creation: Defines unique KPIs with custom formulas for specific business workflows and requirements.
- Flexible hierarchy planning: Creates customizable planning structures combining store, category, channel, and time dimensions.
- Timeline flexibility: Configures planning periods by month, week, quarter, or season based on business needs.
- Spreadsheet-like interface: Ensures high user adoption with enterprise-grade planning capabilities but with a familiar UI.
Scenario-Based Planning & Performance Monitoring
- Multiple scenario management: Creates and compares different planning scenarios with version control and historical backups.
- Dynamic freeze/unfreeze controls: Locks specific plan inputs while allowing adjustments at other hierarchy levels.
- Variance tracking: Monitors actual vs planned performance with automated alerts for budget deviations.
- Top-down and bottom-up planning: Enables planning at any level with automatic cascading and reconciliation.
- Collaborative approval workflows: Contains built-in review and approval processes for multi-department plan finalization.
Forward Integration with Merchandising Processes
- Range & Buy Plans integration: Integrates planned financial metrics directly into buying decisions and purchase planning.
- Allocation and replenishment alignment: Connects financial plans with distribution strategies and inventory replenishment.
- Markdown budget execution: Forwards planned discount strategies to markdown optimization modules.
- Open-to-Buy calculations: Calculates OTB based on sales forecasts, current stock, and financial targets.
- End-to-end merchandising workflow: Connects financial planning with execution across the merchandising suite.
Plug and Play with our other
Merchandising Solutions
- Planning and Buying
- Merchandise Financial Planning
- WSSI/MSSI
- Reordering
Planning and Buying
Increase full-price sell-throughs & avoid overbuying with detailed insights into trends, seasonality and actual demand to improve profitability.
Merchandise Financial Planning
Align financial goals across store and merchandise hierarchy. Optimize inventory, sales, and profitability with 360-degree visibility and collaborative decision-making.
WSSI/MSSI
Ensure you never miss a sales trend or over-invest in stock with automated, real-time sales and stock forecasting for every store and channel
Reordering
Calculate the ideal stock for each store or channel by considering lead times, required cover days, and current stock levels, ensuring you reorder on time and never miss a sale on your bestsellers