USE CASE
Pigment for Retail Planning
Pigment brings merchandise, OTB, assortment, and inventory into one model, at the granularity merchandise planners actually work in.
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"What I see with Pigment is that the flexibility really allows you to model whatever you need to serve you best."
Adeeb Ali
“We chose Pigment for its flexibility and capabilities allowing us to run multiple what-if scenarios in a post Covid and changing retail environment."
Marianne Vandeville
"I used to block two weeks every summer just to build the strategic plan. Now, if everyone sends their inputs on time, I can do it in a day."
Sophie Hun
“The main KPI we wanted to improve was around forecast accuracy and we improved by 20% to 25%.”
Fabien Gibot
"Tariffs are the single biggest area of focus for Evenflo [...], we're constantly modeling scenarios to determine how much cost we can absorb. In a fast-changing environment like this, having a tool that lets us rapidly model the P&L impact and pivot our strategy is absolutely essential."
Kate Dolph
Why choose Pigment for Retail Planning
Connect the range, and the stock position, and re-plan in hours when the season turns.
One connected retail plan
An assortment decision traces straight through to receipts, margin, and working capital.
You own the model
A new brand, channel, or cluster lands in days, not as an outsourced vendor project.
Re-plan when the season turns
Sell-through, markdown, and re-buy decisions run in-season, not at the next review.
How it works
One model connects every stage of the season
Merchandise, buy, range, and stock move together, a decision at any stage impacts every other stage immediately.
01
Strategic & financial plan
Break the global sales and margin target down by family, country, and collection. A merchandising trade-off is priced against it immediately.
02
Merchandise plan &Â OTB
OTB, cover, and GMROI update together as the buy is built, so the effect on margin and cash is visible before the order goes out.
03
Assortment planning
Every option carries its sales potential next to the buy it draws on, so breadth and depth follow real demand across store clusters.
04
Initial Allocation & Launch Planning
Safety stock and launch quantities size against the range, live, in the same model, not a downstream tool working from last week's numbers.
05
Replenishment & reforecast
What stores actually sell flows back into the plan the same week, exposing where units are stranded, so markdown is decided before margin is lost.
"We’re much closer to our stock now, so we can react much faster, allowing us to lower our stock position overall. Since last year, we’ve reduced our stock levels by 30% on average."
Muriel Pagnier
AI
An AI ecosystem built into every planning solution
MCP Server
Bring your own agent via MCP
Use your enterprise AI tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot directly with Pigment, instead of being locked into a single interface.
Agent connectors
Connect agents to get the full business context
Draw on context from systems like Notion, Google Drive, and Slack, so recommendations are grounded in what's actually happening across the business.
Modeler Agent
Build and adapt your application
Describe a new store cluster, a 13th period, or an own-label tier in plain language to the Modeler Agent, and get a working model update.
Analyst Agent
Monitor, explain, and automate
The Analyst Agent flags which product types are underselling relative to their share of the buy, and recommends whether to rebalance stock or re-buy.
Planner Agent
Explore every possibility
With the Planner Agent, build what-if scenarios, explore and compare different options, and get recommendations on the best course of action, while keeping planners in control of the final decision.
Customer spotlight
How retail giant ĂŹDKIDS reduced planning risk with Pigment
92%
Time savings on budgeting changes
4x
Faster creation of new cost centers
“We chose Pigment for its flexibility and capabilities allowing us to run multiple what-if scenarios in a post-Covid and changing retail environment.”
Marianne Vandeville
Key features
Pigment natively supports your core retail planning needs
Merchandise & financial planning
Pricing, promotions, and markdown planning
Inventory, safety stock & cover position
Open-to-Buy (OTB) budget planning
Assortment and range planning
In-season sales reforecast & scenario planning
Distribution, allocation & replenishment
“Training was one of Pigment’s greatest strengths during the implementation phase. Today, we can modify our models independently, allowing us to quickly adapt to any organizational changes.”
Marianne Vandeville
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From 8 days to 4 min
Update P&L actuals & financial forecasting
80%
Time cut on data aggregation
12 hours
Saved per month on executive reporting
6 days faster
For scenarios creation and analysis