Optimization Uniquely in Context of Your Plan

For retailers with finite inventory, uncertain demand, and long lead-times, meeting plan determines predictable profits.

Pre-season you plan your merchandising and allocation with weekly sales and margin objectives that roll up to meet corporate objectives. In-season, when actuals differ from plan, Price and Allocation are powerful levers to get you back to plan most profitably.

Answering What to Do, When, and Where

Forecast Horizon supports you meeting plan by optimizing prices and allocation.

• Localize pricing and allocation to turn more profitably across the lifecycle.
• Capture margin by not discounting too early or too deep.
• Pull back on promos to prevent lost sales if turning too fast.
• Gain margin by using promos instead of waiting until end-of-life clearance pricing when turning too slow.

Across the lifecycle by product, location, and channel, Forecast Horizon:

• Tracks actuals to identify where you're beating, missing, and meeting plan.
• Forecasts demand given actual sales and planned promos through end of plan.
• Optimizes Prices and Allocation to shape demand to get back to plan most profitably.
• Provides the recommendation in context of your key metrics for 3X the acceptance rate.

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Forecast Horizon Allocation Optimization aligns inventory with demand to increase sales and reduce markdowns.

For both fast fashion and replenishment items, Forecast Horizon calculates true inventory need and Weeks of Supply by product/class, store, and week to set optimal Model Stock. The nimble architecture and innovative approach inputs an intelligent forecast to existing naive Allocation systems (e.g. JDA Arthur Allocation).

Key Benefits

• Better Inventory Management through reducing under-stocks and over-stocks
• Better Revenue by shifting inventory to under-stocked stores
• Better Margin by reducing inventory at over-stocked stores

Delivering High Value

A leading Fast Fashion retailer implemented Forecast Horizon Allocation Optimization to bring inventory levels in balance with demand at over 500 stores, Outlet, and Online and improve margin with better allocation to reduce markdowns. In just four weeks, following Forecast Horizon recommendations improved inventory balance by 50%.

Specialty retailers can increase sales by as much as 20%
on 30% less inventory by distributing more accurately. - KSA

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Science-based planning improves turns and margin while reducing risk.

The Forecast Horizon solution for Assortment Planning enables retailers to develop and implement feasible merchandise plans down to the store level. Benefits include:

• Higher Margins and Turns from more productive inventory.
• Planning has a better handle on forecasting with accurate re-forecasts and what-if scenarios.
• The merchant assortment strategy is closely aligned with the Financial Plan.
• Optimal inventory units buy supports the Financial Plan.
• Optimal Breadth and Depth given the total inventory units.
• Buy plan accounts for size profiles, pricing strategy and promotional calendar.

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Forecast Horizon Localized Promotional Pricing Optimization enables a retailer to accurately target what to promote and by how much at the store level.

Forecast Horizon's nimble framework can be configured to accomodate pricing rules, promotional vehicles and constraints, Basic vs Fashion merchandise, and integration with different systems.

In season, Forecast Horizon uniquely also considers how to best allocate DC inventory to meet the change in demand from the promo.

Forecast Horizon delivered a Fortune 500 Specialty Apparel Retailer a 5% Margin increase with localized promotions and intelligent allocation. Learn More >>

Retailers with hundreds of locations know there is no average store.
The core customer profile and demand varies by class and store. Variables such as demographics, climate, and preferences all drive how the product sells and how the business performs.

Forecast Horizon enables a Localized Assortment strategy through the use of advanced retail analytics and interactive scenario planning. The result is a more reliable forecast used for the pre-season Buy, setting and adjusting optimal Model Stocks, and more effective in-season promotions.

Forecast Horizon solutions are delivered over the web, on demand, with a simple, affordable monthly subscription.

No hardware or software to buy, no operations, maintenance, or upgrade headaches
-- at a fraction of the cost of traditional software solutions.

Forecast Horizon leverages the latest technological advancements in Cloud computing and proven open source components to drive down the cost of enterprise-scale optimization software. Partnering with Amazon Web Services enables Forecast Horizon to securely, reliably store and process large data sets without the burden of fixed data center costs. Learn more >>

Forecast Horizon solve high value, complex analytical problems for retailers.

Case Study: Local Promo Optimization Stops Margin Leak

Forecast Horizon delivered a Fortune 500 Specialty Apparel Retailer a 5% Margin increase with localized promotions and intelligent allocation. Learn more >>

Case Study: Model Stock Optimization Improves Reg Price Sales

A leading Fast Fashion retailer implemented Forecast Horizon Model Stock Optimization to bring inventory levels at over 500 stores in balance with demand and improve margin with better allocation to reduce markdowns. In just four weeks, following Forecast Horizon recommendations improved inventory balance by 50%. Learn more >>