Learning Series

How to Calculate Weeks of Supply and Set Target Levels

Weeks of Supply, also known as WOS, is a key performance indicator (KPI) that all retailers should be watching closely to understand the health of their inventory. This article covers how to use WOS and the different ways of calculating it.

Product Updates

Toolio Product Update: Seeding from the Past

When you are building a new Merchandise Plan in Toolio, Seeding allows you to populate your current plan with historical data or a plan from the past in order to jump-start your plan creation process. By seeding from the past, you can save time and easily inherit historical seasonality curves, product mixes and important ratios like Markdown % and Return %.

Learning Series

Google Sheet Scripts for Merchandising

We’ve written a handful of Google Sheet Scripts to give us additional custom formulas that help with many crtical merchandising workflows. Check out this post for a list of custom formulas, along with links to our public Google Sheet that demonstrate the extended capability.

Learning Series

Initial Markup (IMU) Vs. Maintained Markup (MMU)

This post covers the difference between Initial Markup (IMU) and Maintained Markup (MMU).

Learning Series

Free Template + Guide: How to Use Excel for Item Planning and Replenishment

Step by step guide on how to use the Toolio Item Planning template to better manage your core items and ensure they never go out of stock.

Learning Series

The Retail Calendar for Better Merchandising and Sales Reporting: Free Tool + Guide

Click here to get the most up to date free retail calendar and a guide on how to best use it to accurately compare your sales data.

Retail Insights

Post-Covid Prediction 4: Moving beyond DTC

Distribution strategies will remain in flux for the months and years to come, but when the dust settles, brands will have more control over distribution channels and points of sale will proliferate. Wholesale will morph into new formats such as leased spaces and online marketplaces, which will allow brands to get closer to their customers.

Retail Insights

Post-Covid Prediction 2 - Seasonless Assortments

Post Covid-19, the winning brands and retailers will break out of the vicious markdown cycle with a larger base of timeless products complemented with smaller, carefully planned and timely introduced collections.

Retail Insights

Prediction 1: Retailers Will Leverage Technology

Toolio’s first prediction about the retail landscape post Covid-19 looks at the increasingly complex planning environment retailers will face and explains why they will need to embrace technology to manage this.