Advanced Demand Forecasting for Apparel Brands

Size x style x location level forecasts that increase margin, no matter how complex your assortment.

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AI Forecasts, Designed for Apparel

Configured for apparel

We built our forecasts from the ground up to meet the needs of apparel brands. Configure business requirements like store eligibility, WOS, and minimums to tune the model for your unique strategy.

Style x size x color x location level demand sensing

Get insight into upcoming demand at the most granular level. AI models handle levels of complexity that statistical approaches or Excel formulas can never match.

Ensemble model approach

Forecast with long-range precision and short-range agility. Our ensemble of models is flexible enough to capture the future outlook you need without sacrificing accuracy.

Continuous AI innovation

Our data science team is constantly testing new, exciting features. For example: embeddings. Identify product similarities across SKUs and leverage aggregate sales data across past assortments — great for launching newness, identifying complementarity, or fighting cannibalization.

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Why Apparel Retailers Choose Syrup

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Time to value

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Sell-through

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Missed demand

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Held inventory

Rapid time to value

Software on your timeline. Onboard and begin capturing margin improvements and revenue gains in around 8 weeks.

  • Apparel customers improve conversion from allocation to sale and boost sell-through up to 10%.
  • Reduce missed demand from allocation by up to 12%.
  • Hold 30% less inventory, minimizing excess costs and resources.

AI-powered demand forecasts

Our ensemble model approach delivers accurate predictions configured for your unique footwear strategy.

  • Models ranging from cutting-edge neural networks to workhorse gradient boosts, and more.
  • Leverage important internal data (historical sales, promotion data, ecom traffic), then layer in external data sources like social media or weather when they add value.
  • Forecasts outperform naive baselines and competitive forecasts by up to 50% across common error measurements.

Intelligent inventory workflows

Inventory recommendations built on our modern forecasting foundation increase sell-through and margin.

  • Workflows covering initial buys through last-minute rebalancing.
  • Allocate assortments in the 1000s of SKUs in under an hour.
  • Focus on the sizes and styles with the highest strategic impact, and let AI-powered optimization handle the long tail.

Your partners in data science

We’re data scientists and retail experts ready to support your winning footwear strategy.

  • A team of dedicated data scientists keep a close eye on every forecast.
  • Modern integration, consolidation, and normalization infrastructure is backed by a team of retail data experts.
  • Ongoing strategic alignment — tweaking configurations, testing for demand levers — plus the reporting you need to make an upward impression.

We saw the potential of artificial intelligence to optimize our inventory levels.

Eva Sirera Constanti

Technology Innovation Leader, Desigual

Syrup has helped Reformation improve how it allocates stock across about 40 stores and increased efficiency in distribution and warehouse facilities.

Ivan Tchakarov

COO, Reformation

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For Merchandising Teams

Improve inventory precision for optimal financial performance.

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Onboard cloud-native, secure technology offering advanced forecasting and turnkey workflows you can implement in weeks, not months.