Merchandise Financial Planning
- Sales, units, AUR and AUC
- Margin, markdown and COGS
- Inventory, receipts and OTB
- Turns, GMROI and scenarios
- Top-down / bottom-up reconciliation
- Measure dependencies: what holds and what flexes
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Planning expertise across the retail decision lifecycle.
Averin connects financial planning, assortment, demand, inventory and supply so teams understand both the local decision and its downstream impact.
Pre-Season Assortment Planning
- Assortment architecture
- Option counts and breadth/depth
- Store / channel clustering
- Localization
- Price architecture
- Size profiling and buy quantities
In-Season Assortment Planning
- Sell-through and rate of sale
- Weeks of supply and availability
- Rebuys, cancellations and transfers
- Markdown exposure
- Localized assortment actions
Demand Planning & Forecasting
- Baseline and causal forecasting
- New product forecasting
- Promotions and seasonality
- Forecast value add
- Exception management
Allocation
- Initial allocation
- Store eligibility
- Presentation minimums
- Size curves and packs
- DC/store constraints
- Prioritization and overrides
Replenishment
- Forecast and inventory position
- Safety stock
- Lead time and order cycle
- MOQ / pack constraints
- Target inventory
- Recommended order and exceptions
Distribution Planning & BOD
- DC inventory
- Deployment and balancing
- Capacity constraints
- Shortage management
- Store prioritization
- Network inventory decisions
Procurement & BOM Planning
- Finished-goods demand
- BOM explosion
- Material requirements
- Open PO and inventory
- Supplier lead time / MOQ / capacity
- Recommended procurement plan
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