Why use MS Pro

If you are looking for a self-usable tool for merchandising which can simplify your assortment planning exercise, ease your frequent distribution activities and give you real time business insights and actionables in a data driven manner – MS Pro is the product for you. MS Pro runs multiple scientific, patent pending algorithms, in the backend which were made after years of research, incorporating best practices, working directly with merchandisers of a variety of successful brands. It has been made with the vision of easing a merchandisers work, increasing their efficiency and accuracy of outputs empowered with more granular analysis of data.

MS Pro can run algorithms in under 30 seconds and give accurate results which may take days for a merchandiser to achieve and that too may have limitations on the level of accuracy possible manually. This key function of MS Pro enables its users and the brand to increase the frequency of distributions and cycles of planning, thereby enabling them to be more agile in this rapidly changing environment. Brands using MS Pro can operate on lower inventory, achieving higher sales.
MS Pro helps you:

• Find top sellers

• Create a highly optimized merchandise assortment at store level (for each month)

  • What type of products to keep?

  • In what size sets?

  • What revenue contribution can be expected from this assortment?

• Based on target sales, what quantities to procure for these products

• How to intelligently distribute inventory from warehouse to stores

• MS Pro can be used for both offline stores and online stores (i.e. e-commerce portals)

• Track business performance at multiple levels

• Manage online business - which styles to market, reorder

• Manage product level discounts

• Distribute inventory across multiple warehouses

What makes MS Pro so special?

• Driven by algorithms

• Automatically considers and balances most performance impacting factors and limits them under business constraints taken as input like –

  • Seasonality

  • Recency & trends

  • Monthly changing revenue contributions from different categories

  • Product attributes

  • Product discounting

  • Product velocity (Rate of Sales)

  • Changing size requirements of a store, because of changing local demographics

  • Company revenue targets for stores

  • Sales partners (e.g. EBOs, LFRs, E-Commerce, Omni) – different partners can have different

  • Store planogram

  • Store freshness

• Reducing broken styles at the store, thereby reducing loss of sales due to unavailability

• Optimizes positioning of inventory to maximize sales.

• Flexibility – All outputs are provided by way of downloadable reports. If you want to make any adjustments, before taking any decisions, you can always override them.

• And much more!

If you need a more robust system with more functionalities for merchandising as well as ability to solve very specific cases, please go through MS E offerings.