Assortment Planning + NetSuite + Fashion Retail: Built for Director Store Ops

Ward analyzes sell-through by store cluster to recommend which SKUs to add, drop, or reallocate. For Fashion retail specifically, Ward monitors 15,000+ SKUs across your locations and delivers automated insight cards with root cause analysis and recommended actions.

Ward tracks Sell-through rate, Markdown %, Return rate, Style velocity, Size accuracy at the store-category level. Ward clusters stores by demographic, traffic, and sales patterns, then measures SKU performance against cluster benchmarks.

Ward connects via SuiteTalk REST or SOAP APIs. Token-based authentication. Read-only access to your NetSuite instance. Data points include: Sales orders, Inventory, Purchase orders, Customer records, Financial summaries, Item fulfillment.

Yes. Ward reads NetSuite data and combines it with contextual signals (weather, events, demographics) to generate Fashion-specific insight cards. No custom development required.

Managing 800 stores from a spreadsheet is insane. Ward solves this with automated insight cards: Morning brief delivered at 06:47 with prioritized action list. Estate-wide heat map of store performance, updated hourly. Staffing recommendations correlated with predicted traffic.

Ward delivers daily insight cards covering Sell-through rate, Markdown %, Return rate — tailored for Store Operations decision-making. Each card includes what changed, why it matters, and what to do next.

Ward tracks assortment width vs depth by cluster, style attribute performance, size curve accuracy, and inter-style cannibalization. It measures revenue-per-option to identify when adding more styles dilutes overall performance.

A denim buyer has 200 styles to allocate across 90 stores. Ward reveals that urban flagships convert best with wide assortment at shallow depth, while suburban stores need fewer core styles with full size runs. The current uniform allocation starves variety in urban stores and creates size gaps in suburban ones. A cluster-specific matrix reduces markdown risk while lifting full-price sell-through.

First insight cards arrive within 48 hours of data connection. Ward needs approximately 2 weeks to establish robust baselines for your specific operation.

No. Ward sits on top of your existing stack. It is the proactive intelligence layer that watches your data continuously and delivers insight cards — so your team acts on findings instead of hunting for them.