Forecast Horizon provides specialty retailers with nimble solutions offered as an affordable monthly subscription. The pedigree of our team and partners ensures our highly satisfied customers get valuable, actionable answers. Layering optimization into existing processes and IT investements means it is easy to get started and adapt to changing needs.

Pre-Season Planning Solutions

Developing a reliable plan and meeting it determines predictable profits. Forecast Horizon understands what drives demand and how it varies. We understand the complexities of forecasting given highly uncertain demand in specialty retail with expertise in short lifecycle (e.g., fashion apparel). Forecast Horizon improves pre-season planning decisions such as:

Assortment Planning: optimal and feasible Inventory Dollar and Units Buy to support Financial Plan.

Store Clustering: demand profiles and preferences by location and class as a forecast and optimization input.

Breadth and Depth: optimal number of styles and colors by class/ item given the total inventory units.

Size Profiles: demand profiles by size, class, and location as an input to the forecast.

Pre-Pack Optimization: demand by class and store as an input to inventory allocation planning.

Benefits include:

• Planners have a better handle on forecasting
• Assortment aligned with the Financial Plan
• Merchandise planning aligned with inventory planning
• Higher Margins and Turns while reducing risk from more productive inventory

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In-Season Price and Inventory Optimization

When actuals differ from plan, your strategic response is crucial to your success:

• Risk lost sales if turning too fast
• Leak margin by discounting too early, too deep, or on winning items
• Bleed margin from end-of-life clearance pricing when turning too slow

Across products, locations and channels, Forecast Horizon:

• Tracks actuals to ID where you're beating, missing and meeting plan.
• Forecasts demand given actuals through end of plan.
• Optimizes Prices and Allocation to get back to plan most profitably.
• Enables you to perform what-if scenarios and adjust targets.
• Provides the recommended action in context of Plan objectives for turns and profit.



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In-Season Allocation Optimization

Allocation systems are well suited to distribute inventory to stores based on historical demand (Weeks on Hand) and meet rules such as presentation minimums and size/pack requirements. When demand shifts and inventory levels become unbalanced, these Allocation systems can exasperate the problem resulting in over- and under-stocked stores with margin bleeding markdowns or missed sales. Forecast Horizon looks at Weeks of Supply by Location, Class, and Week to set the model stock to bring inventory levels in balance and align inventory with demand. Forecast Horizon Model Stock Optimization injects intelligent forecasts and inventory targets into existing Allocation systems (e.g., JDA Arthur Allocation) with significant improvements such as:

• Improve Inventory Management through reducing under-stocks and over-stocks
• Increase revenue by shifting inventory to under-stocked stores
• Improve margin by reducing inventory at over-stocked stores
• Reducing unnecessary markdowns by as much as 50%
• Reduces the spread of WOS across the chain and volatility across classes and time

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