eVolution Retail Planning
eVolution Planning supports retail companies with a scalable, cloud-based planning solution. Everyone involved benefits - from senior management to purchasing managers, buyers, and sales staff, all the way down to suppliers. The web-based solution allows for planning and maintenance from anywhere via a web browser.
eVolution Brand Planning
With eVolution Planning for Brands, brand companies of all sizes can plan and manage their product assortment, channel, and sales strategies flexibly and transparently. The web-based solution connects management, sales, and retail partners and integrates demand forecasting at the POS level.
AI ReStock-Optimizer
The development of our AI solutions draws on h + p’s extensive know-how, including our many years of market experience and expertise in data processing. Together with our customers, we have developed intelligent smart replenishment solutions that optimally determine inventory levels based on point-of-sale data.
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eVolution Retail Planning
eVolution Planning is a flexible planning solution that adapts to a company’s size and complexity. It integrates limit planning and demand forecasting and connects management, purchasing, and external partners. Real-time plan-to-actual comparisons, open-to-buy transparency, and integration with our Smart Replenishment system support data-driven decision-making.
- 60% of our customers were successfully implemented and onboarded in less than 4 months
- Up to a 10% increase in gross profit compared to the peer group
- 20% reduction in FTEs in the buying department
- Up to 1.5 percentage points improvement in achieved margin
- 10–20% reduction in working capital
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eVolution Brand Planning
eVolution Brand Planning enables brand companies to plan in an agile manner. Different sales channels—such as brick-and-mortar retail, e-commerce, and marketplaces—can be planned and managed in an integrated manner.
Management first defines the revenue and sales targets for the fiscal year. These are then broken down by the responsible teams into channels, markets, or product categories and specified in detail down to the brand, product group, or budget level.
All stakeholders work within a single system, eliminating the need for manual copying, exporting, or merging of data. In the future, collaborative planning with retail partners will also be possible, creating additional transparency throughout the entire value chain.
Key metrics such as revenue, margins, gross profit, and return rates can be viewed at any time, including comparisons to prior periods or benchmarks.
Artificial Intelligence at h + p -
Smart replenishment
To date, inventory replenishment for retail companies has typically been managed using static minimum stock levels; falling below these levels immediately triggers a reorder for example. One-shot items are often not replenished at all. Furthermore, minimum stock levels at the POS level are often not updated regularly. Our solution for you: the ReStock Optimizer. We calculate daily minimum inventory recommendations based on the highest expected sales forecast. Using machine learning and targeted business rules, we generate sales forecasts that ensure optimal product inventory levels at each POS, taking delivery times into account.
// Our promise
Automation and yield increase
Merchandise management and individual price optimisation using AI - with us, new opportunities arise for process optimisation, lower capital commitment and sustainable use of goods.
Yield increase
By using the h + p AI tools, you can increase your sales and reduce markdowns or final stock.
Optimisation
Instead of emotional components, a controlled and data-based AI concept is used.
Automation/ Suggestion scheme
Our tool intersects your framework parameters and business rules with a machine learning approach to automatically determine the optimal inventory.
Cost control
Unlike other providers, we do not follow a transaction-based business model, but rather a monthly fixed price.
Solution implementation and support throughout the implementation process
In all cases, the implementation of our solutions is accompanied by support throughout the implementation and roll-out phases. Following an initial scoping phase, we carefully coordinate the interfaces with all operational systems and begin the detailed set-up.
Stephan Godt
Head of AI & Development
hachmeister + partner
What does h + p mean by ‘Solutions’?
By ‘Solutions’, we mean data-driven planning and AI applications for the operational management of fashion companies. These include eVolution Planning for all types of planning, as well as the ReStock and ReOrder Optimizer for smart replenishment and demand forecasting using AI. The aim is to achieve a measurable improvement in stock optimisation, limit planning and open-to-buy management.
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