CybexAI ASSORTMENT
Assortment planning
for specialty retail
Cybex Retail Data Platform · AI Insights
Breadth is growing faster than sales.
Measured on live data at a five-store specialty apparel retailer, planning next spring.
+14%
more style-colours last spring, for 9% more sales
$625
sales per style-colour, down from $653
70%
of the flagship's range in one store, for 37% of its sales
141%
of plan already ordered in one department, months early
Line plans copied from last year, the same range in every store, and nobody watching the buy against the plan.
From data to decisions, automatically.
One platform carries every number from the till to next season's range.
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Data platform

POS, ERP, e-commerce and purchasing in one model

2
BI analytics

Sales, stock, receipts and open orders by week

3
Statistical extract

Sell-through, productivity, breadth and depth

4
Insight datasets

Season, size, buy, markdown and assortment

5
AI Insights viewer

Findings, exceptions and actions in plain language

6
Applications

Range plan
Breadth and depth
Store clusters
Buy against plan

Starting with Assortment Planning
Every season's results shape the next range
Fully automated: the plan updates every night as orders land
01 · Last season, scored
Know what
earned its place.
Every style-colour ranked on sales, sell-through and margin, by department, vendor and store.
Last spring, style-colours ranked by sales
1,357 style-colours · cumulative share of season sales
100%50%Best sellersTail
Sell-through 67%, up 1.5 points
Tail: 69 style-colours (5%) sold one unit or none
02 · Breadth and depth
Narrow and deepen.
How many style-colours, and how deep in each, for every department. Fewer, deeper choices sell through better.
Last spring
Style-colours
1,357
×
Units each
14.6
=
Receipts
19,800
Sell-through
67%
Plan
Style-colours
1,150
×
Units each
16.7
=
Receipts
19,240
Target
69%
15% fewer style-colours, 14% deeper, for about the same units: more full size runs, fewer one-unit leftovers, a higher sell-through target.
03 · Store clusters
Local, not
one-size-fits-all.
Each store gets the breadth its sales can carry. The range follows the customer, store by store.
Range by store
Style-colours carried last spring, and season sell-through
Store 05 plan: 700 style-colours, 23% narrower, deeper on what sells there
04 · Buy against plan
Watch the buy
as it lands.
Every purchase order is measured against the range plan, by department, the night it is placed.
Spring buy against plan, units
16,017 units ordered to date · plan 19,240
PlanSkirts and pants: 1,120 units over planOpen-to-buy left: 3,220 units
05 · AI Insights
Insights that explain themselves.
The season's range, vendors and stores reviewed, and the plan written up in plain language.
Cybex AI Insights · Assortment
Insights
Season & open-to-buy
Size analysis
In-season buy
Stock rebalancing
Markdown strategy
Spring assortment

Spring assortment strategy

All stores · refreshed 06:00 · ordered against plan by department, plan = 100
Ordered vs last spring
+16%
Last spring sell-through
67%
Recommended receipts
19,240
AI insight
Automation and Optimization.
Every night it scores the season, checks the range and measures the buy. Your planners start the day on the exceptions.
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Sell-through

Fewer, deeper style-colours that sell

↑
Margin

Less left to mark down at season end

↓
Over-buying

No department ordered past its plan

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Planner time

From line-plan spreadsheets to strategy

CybexAI ASSORTMENT
The right range for every store. Automatically.
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