MakerSights has released Line Efficiency, an analytics feature designed to illustrate the incremental appeal of each product within an assortment. Line Efficiency aims to provide insight into a product’s unique audience, information that merchandisers can use to make informed decisions about which items to adopt or drop, as well as identifying the right products for each channel and region.
Line Efficiency can help merchandisers increase SKU productivity and craft cohesive lines that reach the maximum number of customers with the minimum number of products while reducing overproduction of unnecessary or unwanted products. The tool can help product, merchandising and go-to-market teams handle tasking including:
- Screening for cannibalization between products and identify the colorways or styles with significant demand from important subsets of consumers;
- Understanding customer demand on a granular level so the right products are designated for the right channel and region;
- Delivering assortments that widen a brand’s exposure to the market while reflecting the brand and protecting or improving profit margins; and
- Minimizing the volume of unsold merchandise that is either incinerated or sent directly to landfills at the end of each season by reducing overproduction.
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