Fashion retailer will support growth with Island Pacific software

Fashion retailer will support growth with Island Pacific software

UK retailer Joules Clothing recently signed an agreement for Island Pacific planning software licences and services.

Island Pacific planning is the cornerstone of the provider’s assortment management solution and consists of merchandise planning (incorporating price points and category mix analysis and key item planning), store planning (incorporating store clustering and grading) and assortment planning.

It will interface to Joule’s existing systems and allow the retailer, which has over 50 store locations, to efficiently and accurately plan across all levels of their multi channel business.

More accurate buying and forecasting

The planning software will be used across all channels, including retail, web, mail order, international and wholesale. And it will provide decision support tools and strong forecasting and planning capabilities to profitably achieve their goals.

Nick Wyld, head of IT at Joules, commented: “We believe it will provide the buying and merchandising teams with an effective set of tools that will support the growth of the business through more efficient and timely planning, monitoring and forecasting and significantly reduce manual input.

“The Planning solution will not only remove the manual processes, but it should also help to minimise issues related to human error. It will lead to better quality decisions and allow Joules to do what they do now but better.”