The right products. The right mix. Before you buy.
Pinto builds and refines your assortment from customer demand, product performance, channel needs and business constraints. It recommends what to introduce, keep, expand or phase out, then carries those decisions into demand forecasts and supply plans.
Why assortment decisions are hard
Too many products dilute the range
Overlapping options and weak performers split demand, crowd the catalog and make every buy harder to get right.
Different customers want different products
A range that works online may not work for every store, region or customer segment. One assortment everywhere leaves sales on the table and stock in the wrong place.
Every product choice has a cost
Each extra style, color or size adds inventory investment, supplier minimums and the risk of stock that never sells.
What Pinto does
Rationalizes the range
Finds products and variants with overlapping demand, weak performance or little contribution, and recommends what to keep, introduce or phase out.
Sets breadth and depth
Recommends how many options to offer and how deep to buy across sizes, colors, shades, styles and other attributes.
Localizes assortments
Builds a different mix for each channel, region, store group or customer segment, based on how each one buys.
Finds gaps and opportunities
Spots missing options, underrepresented categories and strong performers worth expanding.
Recommends the range for new products
Matches each new product to its closest comparables by attribute, and recommends its opening range, depth and channels before sales history exists.
Connects assortment to demand and supply
Passes the proposed range to Demand Forecasting and Supply Planning, so you see expected demand, inventory needs and buying impact before you commit.
Assortment doesn’t stop at the buy.
Pinto plans the range before the season, then keeps refining it as real demand comes in.
Plan the range
Recommends the range, the options and the opening breadth and depth before buying commitments are made.
- Range and option count by category
- Opening depth by size, color or shade
- Initial mix for each channel and region
Refine the range
Watches sell-through by product and variant, and recommends changes to the range as demand shifts.
- Expand what’s working
- Reduce depth in weak variants
- Phase out overlaps and line up replacements
See how Pinto reasons.
Every recommendation comes with the facts behind it and a clear question for you.
- What happened
- The spring range has 48 styles across 6 color families and 6 sizes. Buying commitments are due in three weeks.
- What Pinto found
- Six color options overlap with stronger styles and show little demand of their own. Two proven styles are planned too thin in M and L, based on last season’s sell-through.
- What Pinto recommends
- Drop the six overlapping options and move that budget into deeper M and L for the two proven styles. The range goes from 48 to 42 styles.
- What happens next
- Pinto passes the revised range to Demand Forecasting and Supply Planning to recalculate demand, inventory and buying requirements.
What Pinto always brings to you.
Pinto handles the analysis and routine recommendations. Your merchandising team owns the strategic calls.
Pinto asks before it acts on
- Removing a major product or category
- Launching a line with little demand evidence
- Big changes to the seasonal range
- Trade-offs between commercial goals
Bring a real planning problem and we’ll walk through how Pinto would handle it.
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Assortment Planning, answered.
How does Pinto plan assortments for new products with no sales history?
Pinto matches each new product to its closest comparables by attribute, such as category, price point, fabric or shade, and uses their performance to recommend the opening range, depth and channels. It updates the plan as early sales come in.
Can Pinto build different assortments for different channels and stores?
Yes. Pinto builds a separate mix for each channel, region, store group or customer segment, based on how each one buys, while keeping the overall range coherent.
How does an assortment decision turn into a buying plan?
Once you approve a range, Pinto passes it to Demand Forecasting and Supply Planning. Demand is recalculated for the new range, and the supply plan shows what to buy, how much and when.
Recommendations use the product, sales, inventory and channel data connected to Pinto.
Bring us your next range.
Share a recent seasonal range or a category that feels too broad, and we’ll show you what Pinto would keep, cut and deepen.