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Aptos Assortment
®
Planning & Buying
2 ▸▸ Aptos Assortment Planning and Buying
Aptos: Engaging Customers Differently
To succeed in today’s The Aptos retail Yet the Aptos advantage
demanding retail suite includes: is about far more than just
environments, you must our solutions. We leverage
be able to fully understand ▸▸ Store / Mobile Store more than 45 years of
your customers; to profitably ▸▸ Enterprise Order best practices; utilize the
align your offerings with Management Cloud to drive efficiency,
their traits and preferences productivity and growth;
▸▸ Digital Commerce
in every channel and support our clients through
touchpoint; and to support ▸▸ Customer Relationship collaborative, long-term
rich, effortless, customer- Management partnerships; and link our
centric shopping journeys. ▸▸ Retail Merchandising compensation directly to
your satisfaction. In all these
▸▸ Merchandise Lifecycle
Aptos delivers that ways and more, we engage
Management
advantage to apparel, customers differently for
footwear, specialty and ▸▸ Audit and Operations superior results.
general merchandise Management
retailers. Our singular retail
▸▸ Analytics
platform and innovative
Cloud solutions unify ▸▸ Professional Services
complex omni-channel and Support
environments with the
power of one product, one
customer and one order,
plus advanced analytics
and data management,
to enable seamless
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Aptos | Engaging Customers Differently 3
Aptos Assortment Planning & Buying
It’s one of retail’s toughest At the same time, you must be Mastering the You can conclude the
yet most critical challenges: able to meet the operational assortment planning cycle with
building ideal assortments and financial demands of your art and science a “virtual style out,” where the
that are perfectly aligned with business by buying correctly Aptos Assortment Planning and look and feel of the collection
your locations, channels and and efficiently, creating Buying is up for this challenge are tied to the numeric. You
seasons, as well as shifting localized assortments that in every way. It blends the will be able to preview your
trends, all while working within minimize markdowns and art and science of planning assortment visually, just as
your budget to drive growth. maximize sales. With so many to let you match flexible your customers do when they
competitors—just steps or product attributes to customer shop in your stores or on
Today, more than ever, you clicks away—you can afford segments, plan collections on your website.
need to be able to engage and nothing less. Yet this challenge a localized basis per delivery
delight your customers in every is more complex than ever window, group stores based With Aptos Assortment
different market with on-style, – with the increased pace of on customer preferences, and Planning, you’ll benefit from:
on-point merchandise that merchandise giving rise to more then create option plans that ▸▸ Customer-focused
appears to have been selected assortments, and an increasing balance the number of choices assortments that meet
just for them. With so many number of channels putting to customer tastes, financial localized demand
choices just steps or clicks pressure on your methods requirements and space
▸▸ Reduced inventory and
away, they have patience for and time. capacities. You can review by
improved visibility of
nothing less. floor, set by store cluster, and
excess inventory
view the assortment by defined
attributes such as color, sleeve ▸▸ More sales at full price,
length, activity and more. You and more products in place
Read more about our
can also easily understand the where they have the best
views on the challenges
core vs. basic merchandise in potential to sell
and imperatives of
assortment planning a store assortment and review ▸▸ Improved turns by
in retailing today. the financial impact when you optimizing your assortment
add or drop a style. breadth and depth
With all of this, Aptos delivers
an assortment planning
solution that ensures
collections both look great
and result in a predictable
financial outcome.
A recognized industry leader…
Aptos is a consistent leader on Gartner’s Magic
Quadrant for retail assortment management
applications and was top rated in the Q3 2017
Forrester Wave for assortment, merchandise,
financial, and inventory planning.4 ▸▸ Aptos Assortment Planning and Buying
A comprehensive solution
Seven core modules within wide range of factors such as as well as key factors such Size Decisions
Aptos Assortment Planning and space utilization, sales and as open-to-buy, space and
Optimize the buy by size and
Buying equip you to create and margin, as well as shopper capacity, while providing
prepare for allocations. This
control an on-target, localized attributes, climate and more. guidance for each scenario
module automatically takes
mix of products across your You can also dynamically group and collection
the assortment decisions
retail chain. stores by product segment to
down to size level, using your
support planning activities and Item Selection
size strategy and calculating
Assortment Planning in-season management. And
This module enables your plan the allocation need and
if some stores need special
The Assortment Planning to reflect recent performance, replenishment need by size.
treatment, even within a
process begins by documenting cluster, store exceptions let fashion trends, choices from
assortment and collection you accommodate their a manufacturer’s range, or net Item Lifecycle Planning
goals, as well as strategic unique characteristics. new items to be developed by
With Item Lifecycle Planning
guidelines for achieving them. sourcing and production
you can project the sales of
Our Assortment Planning
Breadth, Depth and key items and products across
module equips you to do that Omni-Channel
Range Planning time, accounting for price,
with a thorough review of recent Distribution Planning promotions, receipt flows
success factors, fashion and Determining the optimal
Determine which clusters will and exit strategies. You will
customer shopping trends and number of customer choices
be assigned the products, determine the correct size
other key variables. is pure strategy, but the
expectations for how big a buy profiles to use at both chain
process of creating that
each product deserves, and and store level and prepare to
Store Clustering strategy is simplified when
strategies for both the buy and purchase the approved items,
you can simulate your options
The Store Clustering module flow plans. You will be able to with an automated capability
by channel and cluster. The
lets you accommodate review and adjust the collection to help generate the style
Breadth, Depth and Range
customer-focused differences and styles in different ways, information and the purchase
Planning module accounts for
by store. You can consider a both numerically and visually. order detail for the ERP.
channel and cluster options
How important is assortment management to your business?
It’s important to your competitors! According to Gartner, by 2021, 70 percent of Tier 1 multichannel
retailers will have implemented advanced retail assortment management applications.Aptos | Engaging Customers Differently 5
Proven in use
The Aptos Merchandise Lifecycle Management solution is used by more than 300 of the world’s leading fashion,
footwear, specialty and luxury retailers—from adidas, Bata and Columbia to REI, Sephora and TAGHeuer. They
rely on us to take their critical merchandising functions to the next level and to elevate their results.
What about you?
Fat Face
UK lifestyle clothing brand Fat Fat Face implemented Aptos With Aptos Assortment which channel the customer is
Face uses Aptos Assortment Merchandise Planning and Planning and Buying, using. The Aptos solution also
Planning and Buying to create Assortment Planning solutions assortment plans are now fit perfectly with our internal
collections that are perfectly to support its fast-growing retail specific to each store grade, processes and where we
aligned with their brands, enterprise. With operations in graded at a lower level of wanted to go; we didn’t have to
customers, markets and so many different local and detail than was previously teach people a completely new
financial goals, and to: international markets—including possible, and tailored by store way of doing things.”
more than 200 varied stores profile, available space and
▸▸ Build more powerful, in the UK, Ireland and the US, geographical area.
customer-centric store as well as a growing array of
assortments channels—the company needed According to head of
▸▸ Streamline processes to move beyond spreadsheets merchandising Nick Stevenson,
and reduce workloads into a collaborative planning “The software gives us greater
environment that balances visibility and foresight in
▸▸ Improve data integrity
strategic goals with theplanning process, helping
and analysis for better
merchandise plans to identify us always provide a consistent
buying decisions
ideal product mixes product assortment across a
▸▸ Gain a single version and volumes. growing business, no matter
of the truth
”The Aptos solution is simple, yet powerful
and efficient. Their consultants were quick to
understand our needs and to turn our challenges
and requirements into solutions.
- Nick Stevenson, Head of Merchandising, Fat Face6 ▸▸ Aptos Assortment Planning and Buying
A Leader on Gartner’s Magic Quadrant
For multiple consecutive years, Aptos (as TXT Retail) has been a leader
on the Gartner Magic Quadrant for retail assortment management
applications, and have continued to strengthen our assessed strengths
for vision, execution and other criteria.Aptos | Engaging Customers Differently 7
A Forrester Wave™ Leader
Aptos was named a Leader “TXT Retail [now Aptos] shines “Reference clients endorsed
in “The Forrester Wave: Retail in assortment, merchandise, its merchandise, financial, and
Planning, Q3 2017,” receiving financial, and inventory assortment planning prowess.
the highest score in the planning,” states the Forrester TXT [Retail] is an attractive
category of Current Offering, report. “In our evaluation, TXT option for multinational
as well as the highest possible [Retail] demonstrated best-in- retailers or brands that need to
score for: class functionality in aggregate integrate assortment, inventory,
merchandise financial planning, and campaign planning across
▸▸ Assortment Planning assortment planning, inventory channels and national borders.”
▸▸ Global Vision planning, campaign planning,
simultaneous planning, and
▸▸ Past Performance
solution scalability. With
▸▸ Market Approach a portfolio of international
▸▸ Supporting products clients, it isn’t surprising that
and services TXT [Retail]’s global vision
and supporting products and
▸▸ Tier-1 footprint
services are also best in class.”
Extend your value
Aptos Assortment Planning Used individually or together to-use tools turn merchandising And with the latest release
and Buying is one of as a complete solution, the and inventory insights into ideal of our Merchandise Lifecycle
five core components applications within Aptos actions. The solution includes Management solution, Aptos
of Aptos Merchandise Merchandise Lifecycle Advanced Store Grading with delivers even greater usability
Lifecycle Management, our Management enable you to sophisticated algorithms to and performance. It provides
comprehensive solution align strategy with execution, accurately cluster stores; improved collaboration in
that also delivers advanced synchronize accelerate and Size Curve to align your size assortment planning, stronger
functionality for: coordinate all activities within mix with demand in each visualization and reporting
the merchandise lifecycle, store type and location; Size functionality, and enhanced
▸▸ merchandise financial
and ensure that consumer Pack Recommender to create capabilities to support both
planning
demand is met consistently optimal pack configurations retail and wholesale buying
▸▸ allocation, replenishment across all channels. and maximize size selling processes—giving you the
and forecasting within packs; and Localized ability to create, analyze
▸▸ product lifecycle Added value is delivered Assortment Planning to create and socialize plans ever faster
management through Aptos Analytics. Its balanced assortments with and smarter.
powerful yet flexible and easy- optimal breadth and depth.
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