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Gain Early Demand Visibility for Proactive Selling & Responsive Supply Chain Your brands see growing demand from major national retailers, countless boutiques and international franchises. How do you effectively drive sales and mitigate design and supply chain risks? For more than a decade, we at 7thonline have been transforming the way wholesale merchandise and assortment planning impacts financial results at the world’s leading Apparel, Footwear, and Accessories (AFA) brands. First to offer specialized applications catered to wholesale planning, we help today’s leading brands gain unprecedented enterprise demand visibility across all divisions, accounts and geographies. Such demand visibility serves as the critical foundation for driving alignment between merchandise strategy and financial goals. It further enables proactive selling, guides product development, and promotes a more responsive supply chain. The only wholesale solutions catered to AFA, our cloud-based system is built on best practices to support fashion, seasonal, and replenishment-based merchandise planning and execution. Unlike providers who force fit store- based retail solutions for wholesale, we have been perfecting 100% wholesale- based solutions. As former merchandising planning executives, we have deep industry knowledge to ensure you receive the greatest return on investment. Increase fill rate (up to 12%) Greater revenue from proactive selling (up to 25%) Reduce administrative activities (up to 30%) Wholesale Merchandise Assortment Planning & Forecasting for Apparel, Footwear & Accessories 7thonline.com For Wholesale Brands

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Gain Early Demand Visibility for Proactive Selling & Responsive Supply Chain Your brands see growing demand from major national retailers, countless boutiques and international franchises. How do you effectively drive sales and mitigate design and supply chain risks?

For more than a decade, we at 7thonline have been transforming the way wholesale merchandise and assortment planning impacts financial results at the world’s leading Apparel, Footwear, and Accessories (AFA) brands. First to offer specialized applications catered to wholesale planning, we help today’s leading brands gain unprecedented enterprise demand visibility across all divisions, accounts and geographies. Such demand visibility serves as the critical foundation for driving alignment between merchandise strategy and financial goals. It further enables proactive selling, guides product development, and promotes a more responsive supply chain.

The only wholesale solutions catered to AFA, our cloud-based system is built on best practices to support fashion, seasonal, and replenishment-based merchandise planning and execution. Unlike providers who force fit store-based retail solutions for wholesale, we have been perfecting 100% wholesale-based solutions. As former merchandising planning executives, we have deep industry knowledge to ensure you receive the greatest return on investment.

• Increase fill rate (up to 12%)

• Greater revenue from proactive selling

(up to 25%)

• Reduce administrative activities

(up to 30%)

WholesaleMerchandise Assortment Planning & Forecasting for Apparel, Footwear & Accessories

7thonline.com

For Wholesale Brands

Global Demand Planning/OTB Forecast and Plan Enterprise Demand

Moving off from disjointed spreadsheets, corporate planning teams can now view enterprise-wide demand on a single platform across all divisions and regions. Such visibility serves as a basis for conceptual assortment plans and helps to guide product development. Being able to effectively view, plan and forecast global demand drives greater internal collaboration with production, sourcing and supply chain. Greater alignment between supply and demand can reduce inventory risks and improve financial results.

• Demand visibility across brands, divisions & regions

• Align financial objectives with merchandise strategy

• Flexible hierarchy configured for your business

• Automatic seeding of plans from multiple sources

• Embedded sales forecasting tailored for the industry

Global Assortment Planning Gain Early Demand Visibility for Proactive Selling

Early demand insights from retail buyers and efficient order aggregation are twin pillars for driving greater sales and lowering production risks. Whether your business is driven by collection-based fashion products, seasonal lines, or replenishment-based basic items, we support the entire planning, collaboration, and selling process. Armed with data and insights, your Sales teams become more proactive. And order aggregation becomes a click of a button—saving hours or even days of manual work to reach production.

• Account planning for fashion, seasonal & basic products

• Automatically refreshed add/drop styles

• Up to 12 forecasting versions

• Integration with major retailer systems (Macy’s, Belk)

• Visual or analytical view of assortments

eShowroom Fulfill & Aggregate Specialty Demand

Designed as an intuitive B2B shopping cart accessible 24/7 via a web browser, eShowroom does not stop at order taking from your specialty buyers. We take it a step further for major wholesale brands to efficiently aggregate orders from specialty buyers as well as major accounts for a complete view of total demand. This helps secure advantageous production and greater order fulfillment—a clear differentiation from applications that only focus on presenting and collecting orders from boutique buyers.

• Intuitive B2B specialty buying application

• Global access 24/7 via web browser

• Customizable assortments for different buyers

• Efficient aggregation of specialty orders

Production Demand Plan Facilitate Responsive Supply Chain

Instead of pouring over hundreds of spreadsheets, your Production team now has an accurate and dynamically updated view of total booked units for the entire enterprise on a single screen. Any changes in Assortment worksheets by the Planning or Sales teams are reflected to ensure a single version of the truth. Armed with the unprecedented demand visibility, your Production team can now proactively guide the supply chain and optimize production orders to achieve the best production margin.

• Dynamically updated view of total booked units

• View total demand by desired hierarchy

• Analyze demand for production buy units based on

projected units, margins, minimum requirements, etc.

Embedded Forecasting & Reporting Actionable Insights at Your Fingertips

Gain insights into selling trends with industry-specific forecasting, powered by proprietary algorithms. Easily analyze and compare historical sales, in-season performance, system forecasts and use projection on one screen. For in-depth analysis, use Report Builder, an embedded reporting engine built for the business users. Without burdening IT, the insights you need are simply a few clicks away.

• Proprietary algorithms optimized for AFA

• Embedded forecasting for on-screen analysis

• Intuitive, robust reporting engine at no additional cost

• User-created reports for public and private access

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