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Fashion Retail

The forecasting stack for short-cycle fashion.

For Heads of Planning, Buying, and Operations at fashion retailers and manufacturers. Horizon forecasts at SKU × store × week with cold-start models for 6-month product lifecycles, and writes replenishment recommendations back into the ERPs your buyers already run on.

1,700+
Active SKUs (single deployment)
42
Store locations forecasted
85-92%
Weekly accuracy (1-MAPE, SKU × store)

The challenges we see

Short seasonal windows

Fashion seasons are short. Miss the window and you're stuck with markdowns.

Trend unpredictability

Consumer preferences shift rapidly. Yesterday's bestseller is today's excess inventory.

SKU complexity

Thousands of SKUs across sizes, colors, and styles make manual forecasting impossible.

New product challenges

Launch new collections without historical data. Forecasting is pure guesswork.

How we solve it

01

Seasonal demand forecasting

Models trained specifically for fashion seasonality patterns

  • Pre-season forecasting for new collections
  • In-season adjustments based on early sales signals
  • Post-season analysis for markdown optimization
  • Multi-year seasonal pattern learning
02

Style and attribute forecasting

Understand demand at style, color, and size level

  • Forecast by style attributes (color, cut, material)
  • Size curve optimization by product category
  • Trend similarity analysis for new products
  • Cross-style demand correlation
03

Promotion planning

Optimize markdowns and promotional calendars

  • Simulate promotion depth and timing
  • Optimize markdown schedules to minimize waste
  • Test flash sale impact on demand
  • Channel-specific promotion optimization

What you get

1,700+ active SKUs forecasted weekly

At SKU × store × week granularity across the catalog

62-week phased deployment

Financial reconciliation, treasury forecasting, inventory optimization, and production scheduling, phased so you evaluate before committing further

85-92% weekly accuracy (1-MAPE)

Validated by backtest at SKU × store × week granularity

Cold-start models for 6-month lifecycles

New collections forecast without history using attribute-based similarity to past styles

Talk to us about Fashion Retail.

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