Why the next five years will be decided at the merchandise desk — the value creation case.
No other operating investment touches these levers as directly. Every one of them is set, weekly, by planning and trading decisions.
The data estate is real and the reporting is accurate. But the layer where money is committed — the buy, the allocation, the markdown — still runs on documents that fragment the moment they are shared. Versions multiply, reconciliation absorbs the week, and the correction lands after the margin is gone.
The target operating state we help our customers implement. Each shift measured in operating improvement.
Pattern's Retail Science Platform turns your raw retail data into decision-ready intelligence. One foundation, configured workflows, connecting planning and buying teams.
Connected modules, each built and configured on the Pattern foundation. Every one shares the same data model, retail science components and optimisation engines.
Set budgets and targets with connected planning from the board down to the store.
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Auto-generated line plans for every style, at store level, 18 months forward, feeding straight into the buy.
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Build cluster-level ranges guided by your MFP plans, stores, your brands and your customers.
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Track every commitment, from critical-path milestones through to delivery. Flow OTB quickly to opportunities.
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Allocate the winning quantity. Automated, governed, and acting on in-season signals.
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Item and attribute-level analysis surfacing critical trends and guiding targeted action.
Explore the module →Generic planning software can't optimise for what makes you different. Pattern tunes your planning rhythm to the outcomes that move your margin and sales growth.
Pattern's data foundation and retail-science components, one clean data model with your hierarchies and your decision rules, give AI planning systems the trustworthy context to reason over and the governed tools to act with. Today, two modules run on that layer:
It learns how store weather, seasonal events, and store and product features shape demand at SKU and store level, modelling both seasonal ranges and steady non-seasonal lines with the right behaviour for each.
Weather, events and store and product features, modelled at SKU and store level. Not a category-level average pushed down.
One model family handles short-life seasonal ranges and steady continuity lines, each with the right demand behaviour.
A single demand signal that MFP, allocation and the Agent Planner all reason and act on.
It removes the analysis days that fill a planner's week: reading the board, ranking what matters, and executing the fix on your approval, all grounded in your live data and your decision rules.
Every Monday it reads your live trading position and hands you a ranked brief of exactly what needs your attention.
It proposes the fix, then executes it against your tools the moment you approve.
Ask it anything: sell-through by cluster, OTB exposure, size-break risk. You get an answer from your live data, not a cached dashboard.
Every recommendation is measured against what actually happened, so the agent keeps getting sharper on your business.
Pattern starts with understanding your business and your DNA. The Ignition Cycle solves your specific challenges with a configured system on your own data, fast, then takes it to production.
Your configured system runs on your own data within weeks, which reduces risk and improves time to value.
Tuned to your data and your structure. It understands your clusters and sales curves, not a generic template you bend to fit.
Retail planning specialists work inside your business, building expertise and managing change.
Runs in your own dedicated cloud tenant. Your data never leaves your environment, and security stays your standard.
Retail science and workflows built by people who have run enterprise buying, planning and allocations. Your clusters, your curves — not a template you bend to.
Every client runs the latest platform and science. Improvement without disruption, in the subscription, release after release.
And most recently: a legacy global enterprise planning platform at one of South Africa's largest retailers, retired and replaced by Pattern in under 4 months, with zero disruption to trading.
Global planning suites sell a programme. Pattern sells your problem, solved.
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