Master Planning

One Plan To Rule Them All

One truth for every plan and team. No surprises, no last-minute scrambles.

Overview info Solution Overview

Run Your Business Right You Fools!

When your financial, merchandising and assortment plans live in separate spreadsheets and systems, problems happen.

Margins get squeezed. Stock misses the right stores. Your boss shouts at you.

By the time you’ve reconciled them, the season’s moved on… and your P&L is down bad. There is a better way…

Link every single operational plan into one living master plan that updates whenever anything changes.
Think about it…

Merchandising changes allocation? The plan’s updated.
Assortment drops a new style? The plan’s updated.
Landed costs gone up? The plan’s updated.

Welcome to running a fashion company the right way.

The K3 Fashion way.

Benefits

Why you should care about a Master Plan

Merchandising Assortment Finance

Plan in sync

By connecting financial, category and store-level plans together, you’ll get a better sense of how to present products so that they match your margin goals.

Updates as they happen

Whenever assortment adjusts coverage or drops a new style, you’ll instantly see what to replace in displays and online.

Markdown the right way

You can plan promotional rollouts tied to item hierarchies and store groups to protect sell-through and margins.

Allocate effectively

The plans allow for priority-based allocation, meaning you protect stock for flagship stores and VIP customers. Minimum delivery quantities also helps avoid empty rails.

Stay agile mid-season

Use ratio curves to quickly change size/fit allocations without re-planning from scratch. Swap styles, colours or underperforming items mid-cycle.

Align with master business plans

Link your style-level assortment plans to the top-line sales and margins targets in the master plan and monitor progress throughout the year.

Buy based on data

Cost based on item variants (inc. true landed costs like purchase, shipping and customs) to buy profitably. Adjust buys mid-season if landed costs unexpectedly change.

Right range, right time

Match product mixes to store profiles, all the way down to colour-level forecasts, so that your buys match actual demand.

Fewer budget shocks

Assortment choices and merchandising actions feed into the same plan, so you see a rolling, reconciled forecast instead of siloed guesses.

Day one margin protection

Variant-level costing ensures every SKU is fully loaded (i.e., materials, freight, customs) before it’s bought to prevent margin surprise at goods receipt.

Improved cash flow

Avoid overbuying slow-moving sizes or colours and keep working capital tied up in winners, not deadstock. In-season adjustments free up cash and lessen fire sales.

Financial reporting speed

Know the cost of goods sold the moment stock is received, making your reporting and gross margin tracking immediate and accurate.

Capabilities

How it Works

One plan to find them

Every team works their way
Finance sets seasonal sales and margin goals.

Merchandising defines category and delivery drops.

Assortment teams select the right styles, colours, size ratios etc.

Allocation teams determine where products will end up.
One plan to bring them all
All plans are linked together
A change to a style’s coverage or delivery date updates everywhere.

Roll up from account/store level to global targets.

Push company-wide goals down to styles, deliveries or regions.

One plan to bring them all
One plan to bind them

Test before your commit
Model “what if” scenarios: change landed costs, shift allocations, drop styles.

See the impact on sales, margins, and inventory before production starts.
One plan to rule them
Always current
Once approved, every plan refreshes instantly, across wholesale, retail, online and DTC.

One plan to rule them