Toolio
Toolio is a next-generation merchandising platform to help retailers achieve increased topline, gross margin, inventory utilization and customer satisfaction. Toolio’s cloud based software enables users to streamline their merchandising operations and make effective, data driven decisions.
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Toolio Introduction
What is Toolio?
Toolio is a Merchandising Platform for the next-generation of retailers. By seamlessly integrating to your tech stack, automating critical merchandising and inventory planning workflows, and enabling real-time visibility, Toolio empowers you to make faster, data-driven decisions about your most important (and expensive) asset—inventory. Key Benefits - 100% cloud-based - Toolio integrates with Oracle NetSuite to provide a single source of truth for all your retail data and automates forecasting and replenishment. - Automates complex planning, forecasting and merchandising workflows - Unifies the end-to-end planning and merchandising processes on a single platform - Create and synchronize item level demand forecasts in NetSuite. - Pre-built functionality for Apparel, Footwear & Accessories, Retail and Health & Beauty - Flexible no-code customizations - easily configured by the end user Merchandise Planning - Centralized Plan and Actuals Data: Single source of truth for all your merchandise financial planning and reporting. - Auto-Actualization: Seamless integrations to your commerce stack to automate actualizations. Save time and avoid costly errors. - Locking and Spreading: Streamline top-down, bottom-up, or middle-out planning by locking, spreading and inverse calculations. - Personalized Layouts: See your data how you want. Create custom views of your metrics, attributes and date ranges for different stakeholders and use cases. - Custom Metrics and Attributes: Define custom attributes and metrics to analyze your business through your unique KPIs. - Dynamic Hierarchy & Aggregation: Roll-up plans and actuals by any of your attributes. Change aggregations on the fly to see roll-ups by channel or by category. - Scenario Playing: Test, implement and track progress against multiple scenarios in a single view. - Plan Snapshot: Create plan snapshots to seamlessly compare your latest forecast to initial company goals. - Plan Seeding: Simplify plan creation by pulling in historical data, builds and ratios across any custom date range. Assortment Planning Rationalization - Top-Down / Bottom-Up Reconciliation: Reconcile assortment plan to merchandise plan to identify gaps and manage the deviation from plan. - Rationalization: Leverage depth & width recommendations to prevent SKU proliferation and over-assortment. - Smart Start: Smart start your line planning and wedge building by automatically creating cluster appropriate placeholders. Seasonal Line Planning - Hindsight: Compare to past assortments and select comparable products to automatically and accurately quantify buys. - PLM Integration: Seamlessly run your adoption process by pulling developed styles from your PLM and easily assigning them to placeholders. - Gallery View: Virtual fashion wall to visualize the assortment over time and make planning changes directly in the gallery view. Core Replenishment - Forecasting Engine: Automate forecasting and retrending to streamline creating projections, while maintaining ability for overrides, to improve forecasting accuracy. - Promo Planning: Centralize promo calendar and automatically account for discounts and lifts in sales forecasts. - Replenishment: Optimize inventory by recommending ideal receipts to meet the demand plan, while accounting for lead times and inventory polices like safety stock. Purchase Order Manager - Receipt Consolidation: Consolidate receipts to generate purchase orders, while accounting for minimum order quantities, different freight methods and other supply chain considerations. - MOQ: Ensure minimums are met by pulling forward receipts ensures cost saving from vendors can be maximized. - Purchase Order Management: Manage and approve purchase orders to project the impact on inventory, before final approval is provided to the vendor. Reporting - Snapshots: Slice and dice and roll-up assortment by time, product attributes and location attributes to provide a holistic view of the assortment over time. - Advanced Analysis: Track changes on the assortment over time to understand the evolution of the assortment from pre-season to in-season. - Scenario Playing: Seamlessly create different scenarios and compare them to assess the financial implications of each. Allocation - Accurate Store Level Demand Forecasts: Leverage AI / ML and statistical forecasting to anticipate demand SKU x Location level demand that incorporates new product launches, promotions and many other inputs. - Intelligent Transfer Order Suggestions: Generate transfer orders based on safety stock targets, replenishment frequency and presentation constraints. - Optimize Inventory Deployment: Our SKU rationing logic ensures that we optimize the placement of your inventory down to the last unit to maximize your sales and inventory turn. - End to End Planning: Plan inventory based on forecasted demand by location with the integration to the item planning module. - Turn-key Integrations: Save time and avoid costly errors by automating transfer order creation in your ERP directly from Toolio. - Store Manager View: Give visibility to your store managers so that they understand when they should expect replenishment by style. - Automated Store Clusters: Automatically create store clusters by product performance to drive initial allocation. - Store Capacity Constraints: Manage and respect store level capacity constraints to ensure each store receives what it can carry. - Minimum Display Quantities: Set minimum display quantities to ensure desired product presentation by store.





