Plan the season. Adapt to the moment.
Fashion teams commit to buys before demand is clear, then race to react as sell-through shifts by style, size and color. Pinto plans the range, sizes the opening buy from comparable styles and rebalances in-season, to lift sell-through and cut excess across collections and channels.
- Plan seasonal collections and product ranges.
- Forecast demand across styles, colors and sizes.
- Balance opening buys, reorders and markdown risk.
The decisions behind every collection
New styles need a buy before they have a history
Opening orders go in months ahead, based on comparable styles and judgment. Buy too deep and margin goes to markdowns. Buy too shallow and the style sells out early.
A winning style can still lose sales
Demand piles into a few sizes and colors. The style looks healthy in total while M and L sell out and the outer sizes sit.
The selling window closes fast
Slow variants tie up open-to-buy while bestsellers wait for reorders. By the time it shows up in reports, the season is nearly over.
From the first buy to the final markdown
From range planning to the last markdown, Pinto handles the buying decisions that make or break a season.
Seasonal assortment and range planning
Recommends the range for each season: how many styles, colors and sizes, with breadth and depth matched to the plan.
New-style opening orders
Sizes opening orders for new styles from comparable styles and early sales signals.
Style, color and size forecasting
Forecasts demand by style, color and size, so totals don’t hide gaps in the variants customers want.
Size-curve planning
Builds size curves from sell-through by size, and applies them to every buy and reorder.
Replenishment and positioning
Proposes reorders and transfers as sell-through shifts, within open-to-buy and supplier lead times.
Sell-through and markdown risk
Flags styles and sizes at risk of missing their selling window, while there’s still time to act.
How Pinto handles it.
An illustrative decision Pinto prepares, and the question it brings to your team.
- What happened
- The new rain shell is selling 40% ahead of forecast, almost all of it in M and L.
- What Pinto found
- At this rate, M and L sell out in week 5. XS and XXL have nine weeks of cover. A reorder takes six weeks to arrive.
- What Pinto recommends
- Reorder 1,100 units now, weighted to M and L, and move 140 units of M and L from the outlet store to the DTC warehouse.
- Business impact
- Protects about $46K of full-price sales. The reorder fits within the outerwear open-to-buy.
Built for the way your products are sold.
Pinto plans each part of a fashion business on its own terms.
Fast fashionShort cycles, frequent drops and quick reads on early sales.
Premium fashionDeeper investment per style, with fewer markdowns to fall back on.
Basics & essentialsAlways-on lines, replenished by size and color.
Occasion wearEvent-driven peaks with a narrow selling window.
AthleisureCore styles plus seasonal colors, sold across every channel.
Apparel & Fashion planning, answered.
How does Pinto forecast demand by size and color?
Pinto forecasts every style at the size and color level from sales history, comparable styles and periods when sizes were out of stock, so the plan reflects what customers wanted, not just what was on the shelf.
How does Pinto turn a forecast into an opening buy or reorder?
Pinto sizes each order from the forecast, your size curves, supplier lead times and minimums, and checks it against open-to-buy before recommending it. Once you approve it, the order goes back to your ERP.
Does Pinto work with our ERP, ecommerce and warehouse systems?
Yes. Pinto connects to systems such as NetSuite and Shopify, alongside your connected warehouse systems, and plans from the product, sales and inventory data they hold.
Pinto’s recommendations use the product, sales, inventory and channel data you connect.
Your existing systems, planned as one.
Pinto brings together the data in your ERP, commerce and warehouse systems, so forecasts and supply plans start from the same numbers.
Connects to systems such as NetSuite and Shopify, alongside your connected warehouse systems.
What apparel & fashion teams rely on most.
Four Pinto Experts work together on every season. Open any one to see how it handles the decisions in your business.
- 01Assortment PlanningChoose the product mix and variants to offer, then connect those choices to demand and supply plans.
- 02Demand ForecastingForecasts that explain themselves, and flag the ones they’re unsure of.
- 03Supply PlanningFrom the final forecast to purchase orders, transfers and allocations, within your budget and rules.
- 04Risk & AlertsSpots stockouts and excess before they happen, and tells you which ones matter.