Store Assortment Planning for fashion retail
A collection rarely sells the same way in every region, store or channel. Stealth Cosmica groups points of sale into clusters and uses artificial intelligence to adapt product mix, sizes and attributes to local demand, while headquarters keeps control of the overall assortment strategy.
For assortment targets, category roles and price architecture defined at headquarters, see AI Assortment.
Effective Store Assortment Planning adapts a central strategy to local demand without losing brand consistency
Buying behavior changes from region to region, and so do size distribution, price sensitivity and preferences for colors, fits and materials. When every location receives an identical mix, some miss the sizes and styles their customers ask for while others hold products that end up discounted. Working by cluster and channel lets brands tailor their offer and keep stock where it sells.
- Store clusters receive assortments built on their own sales history, size performance and buying behavior
- Stealth Cosmica calibrates size curves and attribute mix by location, improving availability and reducing stock imbalancesAI-driven simulations to optimize Assortments and reduce inventory risk
How can Stealth Cosmica for Assortment Planning help?
Recommendations by Cluster & Channel
Stealth Cosmica applies artificial intelligence to sales history, demand patterns and product attributes, recommending a product mix for each channel, cluster and location.
Size & attribute precision
The solution plans at size, color and attribute level, matching each store’s size curve and the preferences of its customers.
Space aligned with Priorities
Stealth Cosmica allocates floor space and digital shelf space according to the role of each category, from core lines to seasonal and fashion items.
Central Control, local Relevance
With the solution, headquarters keeps control of the overall strategy and brand consistency, while each region and channel receives an offer that reflects its own demand.
How Stealth Cosmica works For
Assortment Planning?
Stealth Cosmica uses artificial intelligence to analyze historical sales, size performance, price sensitivity and regional buying behavior at store and cluster level.
Planners use the solution to group points of sale with comparable demand into clusters, so that each group can receive its own assortment.
Planners assign each category a role, such as core, seasonal, fashion or traffic driver, and the platform allocates floor space, digital shelf space and investment accordingly.
Localization works by geography, store cluster and channel, with the solution keeping the brand consistent across the network.
The platform supports planning by color, fit, material and size curve for each cluster, so availability matches what local customers buy.
Simulations powered by artificial intelligence show the expected revenue, margin and inventory impact of each localized assortment before it reaches stores. Buying limits for each location are then managed in AI Retail Financial Planning.
Outcomes
More sales at full price
With assortments that reflect local demand, Stealth Cosmica helps more products sell without discounts and reduces reliance on deep markdowns. Because each cluster receives the styles and quantities its customers buy, leftovers shrink and sell-through improves across the network, protecting the margins planned for the collection.
Fewer stock imbalances between stores
Planning at size and attribute level limits overstock in some locations and stockouts in others, protecting sales across all channels. Inventory investment goes where demand is stronger, so fewer units sit unsold in one store while another runs out of the same item, and fewer sales are lost for lack of the right size.
Relevance for local customers
Each cluster and region offers the sizes, colors and styles its customers look for, improving the shopping experience. Planning by color, fit and material reflects regional preferences, so shoppers find a selection designed around them in physical stores as well as on digital channels.
One brand, many markets
Central control of the assortment strategy remains in place, so localization respects a consistent brand identity across the network. Headquarters sets targets, category roles and brand positioning once for every region, while the solution adapts depth, sizes and attributes to each market.
Who is Stealth Cosmica for Store Assortment Planning for?
Retail Planner
Area Buyer
Visual Merchandising Manager
E-Commerce Manager
Frequently Asked Questions
It is the process of deciding which products, sizes and quantities each store or channel should carry, based on local demand. In Stealth Cosmica, artificial intelligence turns sales history, demand patterns and product attributes into recommendations that adapt the central assortment strategy to every cluster, region and channel.
Store clustering groups points of sale with similar characteristics, such as sales performance, size profile or regional buying behavior, so that each group can receive a dedicated assortment. Stealth Cosmica uses clusters as the basis for localizing product mix and size curves.
Localization happens within the assortment strategy defined at headquarters. Planners adapt the mix in the solution to each cluster and channel, while central control over targets, category roles and brand positioning remains in place.
Yes. Assortments can be tailored by channel as well as by geography and store cluster, and the solution allocates digital shelf space alongside floor space in stores.
Stealth Cosmica runs scenario simulations that show expected revenue, margin and inventory impact, so planners can compare options and choose the one that best balances sell-through and stock risk.
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