Built for the Planning Team
That Outgrew Spreadsheets.

Mid-market and emerging apparel brands plan their entire business in Excel. OTB lives in one file, assortment in another, buy plan in a third. Each season begins with days of reconciliation before a single planning decision is made.

Enterprise planning systems (SAP, Oracle, Blue Yonder) are built for large retailers with dedicated IT teams and multi-year implementation timelines. They are not designed for the agility, speed, and cost structure of a growing apparel brand.

RetailNorthstar is a connected merchandising planning system purpose-built for mid-market apparel. OTB, assortment planning, buy planning, and allocation share a single data model — so plans reconcile continuously, not at the end of each season.

OTB informs assortment. Assortment drives the buy. The buy feeds allocation. These are not separate processes — they are one plan in sequence. We built the system that way.

When OTB, assortment, and buy planning live in separate spreadsheets, reconciliation consumes the bandwidth that should go to decisions. We eliminate the reconciliation layer.

A sell-through reading that arrives 7 days after the fact is a historical record, not a planning signal. RetailNorthstar surfaces in-season data as decisions are still actionable.

Size curves built from memory or gut instinct produce overbought smalls and undersold larges season after season. We build size curves from actual sell-through history and apply them automatically at buy time.