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Toolio Product Updates: October 20, 2026

This month, Tooli can edit your Merchandise Plan and answer questions in Slack. Assortment Plan adds Rollups and Trend Dampening, and there are new ways to see your plan data in the grid and on your storefront.

The Disposable Answer: Why Your Planning Team Keeps Rebuilding the Same Analysis

Every Monday, planners rebuild last week's analysis from scratch. Here's how to save recurring questions, avoid close-but-wrong numbers, and hand off the work, not a screenshot.

How to Scale Your Category Reviews When Your Assortment Doubles

Went from two categories to eight? Your blended category number won't hold up past the first question. Here are five checks for a category read you can defend.

Retail COGS Optimization: How to Reduce Your Cost of Goods Sold

COGS optimization is about paying less for the goods you actually sell: sourcing smarter, marking up with discipline, buying the right quantities, and protecting the margin.

Grain, Not Guesswork: How to Build a Size Curve You Can Trust

A size curve isn't a number you pull from history once. It's a stack of nine decisions, and getting them right is what separates a curve you can trust from one you're guessing at.

What Is Replenishment Planning?

What is replenishment planning? A practical guide to the reorder point formula, replenishment methods, and the metrics that show whether it's working.

Toolio Product Updates: September 22nd, 2026

September brings a more capable Tooli: building views, dashboards, and decks for you. Plus demand-based warehouse splits, pack ordering, and lock seeding to protect your allocation work.

Demand Sensing in Retail: What It Is and How It Works

This guide covers what demand sensing is, how it differs from forecasting, the signals it uses, and where it earns its keep in retail.

Retail Calendar Explained: The 4-5-4 Guide

What the retail 4-5-4 calendar is, how it works, and why retailers use it for accurate year-over-year sales reporting. Includes 2026 and 2027 dates plus a free template.

Forecast Review Doesn't Scale. Confidence Scoring Does.

Your assortment grows every season. Your team's review hours don't. Aim their attention at the forecasts least likely to be right, before the season finds them for you.

The Great Wholesale Paradox: Why Retail's Highest-Growth Channel Is the Hardest One to Plan

Wholesale is retail's highest-growth channel and its hardest to plan. Here's why it breaks spreadsheets, and how modern brands plan it without eroding margin.

How to Read a Product's Health in 60 Seconds (Instead of 10 Minutes)

The ten-second product read your best planner used to give from memory is now a ten-minute hunt across five reports.

Toolio Product Updates: August 25th, 2026

This month Tooli got a lot more capable: it now answers with charts, KPI cards, and live grids, suggests prompts based on the page you're on, and can even edit transfer recommendations.

Like-for-Like Forecasting: How to Borrow Demand History for New Products

New products have no history. Your planners do. Here's how like-for-like forecasting borrows a comparable item's real demand curve instead of defaulting to a flat category average.

How Retail Tariff Volatility Made Quarterly Planning Obsolete

Tariff rates nearly tripled while prices stayed flat. The advantage is no longer where you source, but how fast you can replan when costs shift.

Get Every Style into Your Assortment Plan Without Retyping the Line

The line already exists in PLM. Here's how to stop rebuilding it by hand — and get every style into your plan in one pass.

Why the Merchandise Planner Still Owns the Plan in the age of AI

AI is changing what merchandise planners do every day. It's not changing who owns the plan.

Why Your Promotional Lift Numbers Don't Hold Up

Most promotional lift assumptions are guesses dressed up as data. Here's why that gap eats margin, and what it takes to build a promotional plan grounded in reality.

Toolio Product Updates: July 21st 2026

This month: AI-powered forecasting for new products, smarter allocation strategy tools, multi-currency assortment planning, and sharper size-curve and location-level visibility.

What Separates Successful Retail Tech Implementations from Failed Ones

Most retail planning implementations fail for many reasons: how the project was scoped, who owned what, and how success was defined. Here's what the successful minority does differently.

Wholesale Drives Revenue. Nobody's Planning for It.

Wholesale moves more inventory than most brands' and retailers DTC channels combined, but it consistently gets less planning rigor, less data infrastructure, and less organizational attention.

Consumer Demand Is Fragmenting: Why The “Average Customer” Is Gone

Consumer demand is fragmenting across every major retail category. Here's what's shifting, why your historical data is the last to know, and what planning teams need to do differently.

Toolio Product Updates: June 23rd 2026

The new Tooli is live, along with Skills: planning Agents that run end-to-end workflows against your live plan. Plus promo lift modeling, forecast confidence scoring, recommended redistribution orders, and more!

Moving Units to Full-Price Doors Before It's Too Late

By week four, your chain-level inventory number looks fine. A handful of SKUs beneath it do not. Here's how systematic redistribution keeps those units moving at full price before the season runs out.