Optimize Reality with AI-Powered In-Season Inventory Optimization
Maximize your margin and profits by ensuring the right inventory is in the right place at the right time for the right price, always
Trusted by leading retailers worldwide
In-Season Inventory Optimization Can Achieve:
15%
Increase in Full-Price Sell-Through
5%
Increase in Revenue
15-30%
Increase in Inventory Efficiency
20%
Increase in Inventory Rotation
Why is it important to optimize reality throughout the season?
Working capital constraints are hitting retailers hard just as inventory-to-sales ratios are reaching their highest-ever levels. No retailer can afford to misallocate or cut margins on that inventory, yet they are navigating unprecedented market uncertainty. No matter how well you plan, you need to respond quickly to reality, sensing and adjusting to changes in demand in real time to maximize profits regardless of emerging challenges.
Unlock In-Season Optimization
ToolsGroup’s agile In-Season Inventory Optimization Solution embraces
and thrives amid that uncertainty, adjusting to disruption in real time.
Waste, Overstock, and High Sales to Inventory Ratios
High levels of markdowns and promos required to clear inventory eat away at margin and often fail, forfeiting working capital invested.
Stockouts, Availability Gaps, and Missed Sales
Availability gaps and missed sales reduce revenue possible from inventory, as well as harm customer perception.
Inventory Imbalances and Poor Sell-Through
Slow responsiveness to changes in customer demand misallocates stock, slowing turnover and creating imbalances across the network.
How Do We Achieve These Results?
Proven Products Built into a Unified, Targeted Solution to Solve Your Unique In-Season Inventory Problems
Allocate intelligently with Dynamic Allocation
Allocate exactly how much product, of which SKUs, when and where it is needed in real time for increased inventory turns. Boost Inventory Turns Now →
React fast to changes in demand with Dynamic Replenishment
Auto-replenish inventory with agile real-time inventory sensors to maintain ideal stock levels and maximize revenue. Respond Faster to Demand Now →
Reduce Stockouts and Unsold with Inventory HUB
Leverage zero-latency event-based tracking for full inventory visibility that allows you to improve product availability. Get Full Inventory Visibility →
Sell more with less inventory with RebalanceAI
Maximize sell-through and minimize time on shelf by dynamically transferring inventory from store to store to where it is most likely to sell. See How RebalanceAI Works →
Deliver higher margins with MarkdownAI
Remove cyclical margin pressure while clearing end-of-season inventory for sustainable and profitable markdown seasons. Maximize Profits with MarkdownAI →
respond to changing conditions to ensure you reach your goals no matter the obstacle.
What does that optimized reality look like?
Maximize Turns, Minimize Waste
Minimal missed sales at the lowest possible cost through intelligent allocation that puts the right products on the right channels for higher inventory turns.
AI Replenishment: From Tweets to Shelves
Real-time, store/item/size-level replenishment that adapts to even the smallest signals of changing demand from social trends to weather.
Say Goodbye to End-of-Season Waste
Fewer stockouts and minimal end-of-season waste thanks to full inventory visibility and optimization.
Sell More, Stock Less: Dynamic Inventory
More sales with less inventory on hand as stock is dynamically moved across the network to where it will sell fastest.
Smarter Markdowns, Higher Margins
Up to a 5.5pp increase in in-season margins through increased full-price sell-through and optimized markdowns.
Conquer Change, Maximize Profit
Maximum GMROI and profitability when you rapidly respond to changing conditions to ensure you reach your goals no matter the obstacle
Customer Stories
See how retailers around the world are leveraging ToolsGroup inventory optimization capabilities for maximum GMROI and returns on working capital invested in inventory.
I’m excited to share one of the many ways Abercrombie & Fitch Co. strives to provide customer satisfaction and how ToolsGroup helps us achieve some of those goals.”
- Monica Tatham, Senior Director for Enterprise Business Solutions
Challenges
- Difficult to support regional autonomy while adhering to overall company strategy
- Need to drive sales and margin across all categories
- Desire to optimize inventory and build a more customer-centric assortment
Results
- Improved sales and margin
- More efficient assortment architecture
- Enhanced customer satisfaction
We had always seen markdowns as a necessary evil—and a frustratingly inefficient one at that. With Evo, however, markdowns have become a critical lever for change across both inventory management and pricing. Evo changed our whole outlook on markdowns.”
- Marcello Pace, CEO of PittaRosso
Challenges
- High levels of unsold inventory from legacy collections
- Outdated inventory clogging shelves and harming brand
- Size fragmentation slowing sales
- Markdowns no longer having desired impact, even with incredibly high discounts
- Lack of responsivity to demand in legacy software
Results
- 14.3% increase in sell-through
- 21.4% reduction in previous season overstock
- €4.2 million margin growth
- 4.1 million more units sold in one season
Partnering with Evo gave us access to troves of data on local consumer behavior and a cutting-edge AI …that can analyze this data in combination with our internal data to get the right products in the right sizes at the right location at the right time.
- Alessandro Pozzi, Boggi COO
Challenges
- Rapid international expansion meant in-house inventory management systems could no longer sustain growth
- The unpredictability of demand in new geographies limited inventory efficiency
- Both Increased stockouts and unsold inventory
- Dropping inventory productivity
Results
- 18.2% increase in inventory efficiency
- 4% increase in like-for-like sales
- 12% reduction in inventory levels without stockouts
- 72% fewer allocation errors
- 47% improvement in product availability
Evo has been our top innovation of 2016. An impact that has far exceeded our expectations, delivered professionally.
- Francesco Cavarero, CEO of Miroglio Fashion
Challenges
- Many short-lived, volatile, slow-selling items
- Challenges in accurately forecasting item demand at the store level
- Unbalanced sales across the network, creating extended shelf life
- A history of unsuccessful consulting and software implementations
Results
- 25 pp increase in allocation efficiency
- 20% increase in sales
- 30 pp increase in sell-through
- €1m/month incremental margin
