Buy Better.
Sell Smarter.
Pattern helps fashion brands at scale to deliver maximum ROI on their merchandise & team.
Buy Better.
Sell Smarter.
Pattern helps growing fashion brands deliver
maximum ROI on their merchandise & team.
Size Packs vs Individual SKUs in Fashion Retail Allocation
When it comes to running an optimised seasonal retail business, the allocation of inventory is a critical task that can either boost stock turn and profit or hamper sales and create volumes of dead stock. As a result one of the most debated topics in fashion inventory management is the trade-off between allocating size packs versus individual SKUs (Stock Keeping Units) from the warehouse to stores.
Why Reducing the Cash-to-Cash Cycle Matters in Fashion Retail
Fashion is fickle, today more than ever, and staying ahead of trends and consumer demands is critical to staying relevant in today’s hyper trend cycle world. Getting it right means growth and market share gains, get it wrong and retailers find themselves adding more...
How to manage markdowns in fashion retail
The major high-level key considerations to help you own your next markdown.
Intelligent Fashion Allocation & Replenishment
Our latest module overview looking at fashion allocation & replenishment.
The Fashion Allocation Puzzle
Get the right product, into the right store, at the right time.
Case Study: Cape Union Mart
Cape Union Mart, a prominent South African retail group, has successfully transformed its merchandising operations with the help of Pattern Analytics.
Metrics that matter
In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, data has emerged as a powerful tool for driving decision-making and building trust.
Build a Winning Data Strategy
In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, data has emerged as a powerful tool for driving decision-making and building trust.
Building Resilience in Retail
The pandemic & subsequent disruptions have exposed weaknesses in the global retail supply chain.
Join other highly productive teams
Case Study: Cape Union Mart.
What is Pattern
Pattern is a business intelligence platform designed specifically for the retail planning and buying cycle. Built on top of a proprietary merchandise data model which ingests data from operational systems, Pattern lets teams analyse in-season trends, optimise pre-season ranges and understand customer purchasing profiles through historical sales patterns.
Analytics for every team member
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Most conventional BI platforms require a level of expertise from users to unlock value. The result is many don’t use it. Pattern makes analysis effortless regardless of whether you’re an Excel guru or not and becomes the go-to platform for all merchandise intelligence across the business.
Dynamic, deep retail merchandise understanding comes standard
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We understand what measures merchandise teams they need to make the right calls on how to increase business performance. Pattern comes standard with powerful retail metrics and performance graphs underpinned by our unique retail data model that gives your teams what they need out the box.
Eliminate hours of manual report building or manipulation in Excel
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How much time are teams spending creating manual reports, pulling images from one system and sales figures from another? This is wasted time that adds no value to your bottom-line and could be spent on valuable analysis. We eliminate it. Teams have instant access to all the merchandise intelligence they need to make better buying and planning decisions.
No more manual gridding of garments
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We have digitized the age-old merchant process of gridding physical samples on grids to analyse products and understand what product and design attributes are driving merchandise performance. Pattern gives users immersive analytical power to review any combination of products across time in an instant so teams can focus on spotting the trends and building better ranges.
Analytics for every team member
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Style level analysis like no other platform
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Dynamic, deep retail merchandise understanding comes standard
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Eliminate hours of manual report building or manipulation in Excel
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Track trends over time and present findings at meetings
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No more manual gridding of garments
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Integrate with existing sales channels & systems
Where Pattern works
Post-seasonal analysis
Pattern removes tedious manual prep work from post-seasonal analysis allowing teams to spend more time on developing winning product strategies. Teams can identify the strengths and weaknesses driving merchandise performance, build boards that substantiate their findings and can be easily presented to motivate for their seasonal strategies.
Weekly performance meetings
No more hours of manual prep for weekly meetings when teams have Pattern. Now the focus can be on value adding analysis on in-season and pre-season ranges and identifying opportunities to optimise design, range mix, allocations, pricing strategies and marketing.
Post-seasonal analysis
Pattern removes tedious manual prep work from post-seasonal analysis allowing teams to spend more time on developing winning product strategies. Teams can identify the strengths and weaknesses driving merchandise performance, build boards that substantiate their findings and can be easily presented to motivate for their seasonal strategies.
Weekly performance meetings
No more hours of manual prep for weekly meetings when teams have Pattern. Now the focus can be on value adding analysis on in-season and pre-season ranges and identifying opportunities to optimise design, range mix, allocations, pricing strategies and marketing.