A solution by Bios Management

Assortment Planning

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Define the right assortment before the season starts.

Bios Management’s Assortment Planning solution, built on Board, enables fashion brands and retailers to design optimal assortments before the season begins. By combining product, financial, and distribution planning in a unified environment, teams can simulate scenarios, adapt to evolving collections, and ensure the right products are allocated to the right stores from day one.

Why Bios for Assortment Planning?

Turn pre-season complexity into confident decisions.

Fashion retailers face constant change—evolving collections, incomplete product data, compressed timelines, and misalignment across teams. Traditional spreadsheet-based processes struggle to keep up. This solution brings structure, flexibility, and real-time simulation into a unified platform, enabling teams to align merchandising strategy with financial targets and translate high-level plans into precise, store-level buying decisions.

The solution enables users to simulate and structure assortment strategies by combining product, financial, and distribution perspectives. It allows planners to work at different levels of aggregation, such as region and store clusters, and progressively refine decisions down to individual store level.

By managing evolving collections, incomplete master data, and compressed planning timelines, the solution provides the flexibility needed to adapt to continuous changes in the product perimeter. Through a combination of simulation capabilities, configurable drivers (assortment width, depth, and localization), and integrated analytics, it ensures that buying decisions are both data-driven and aligned with business targets.

What is included?

Assortment Planning bridges the gap between merchandising strategy and operational buying, delivering a structured and scalable approach to pre-season decision-making within a unified Board environment.

The Bios Management Assortment Planning solution includes a preconfigured assortment planning framework tailored for fashion and apparel retailers. It supports the full pre-season planning process—from defining master assortments and simulating scenarios to generating store-level buying decisions. Built to handle evolving collections and incomplete master data, it integrates financial targets, product strategy, and distribution planning into a single, scalable Board environment.

Benefits

Define optimal assortments aligned to financial and merchandising targets
Reduce reliance on spreadsheets and manual planning processes
Adapt quickly to evolving collections and changing SKU availability
Improve collaboration across merchandising, buying, and planning teams
Translate strategy into precise, store-level buying decisions
Increase planning speed and agility under compressed timelines

Features

Pre-season assortment planning integrated with financial (OTB) targets
Simulation-driven planning across assortment width, depth, and localization
Flexible management of evolving collections and placeholder SKUs
Real time variance analysis between targets and budget submissions
Planning from high-level clusters down to individual store level
Automated calculation of quantities and values across all dimensions
Visual assortment definition supported by product and fabric imagery
Workflow-enabled collaboration across merchandising and buying teams

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