Case Study: DSW achieves increased sales, improved margins and reduced inventory with Blue Yonder retail planning solution

DSW Makes Every Foot Count with Optimized Fixed Store Capacities

DSW, a footwear specialty retailer that grew from a close-out business into a national chain of large-format stores, faced a strategic challenge: fixed store capacities and limited backrooms required extremely precise assortments by market. Its legacy planning processes and tools worked only at high levels (department/dollar-focused), leaving buyers without the granular forecasting and size-mix control needed to optimize sales and inventory.

DSW implemented Blue Yonder’s retail planning suite to unify forecasting, assortment allocation and pricing, replacing disparate spreadsheets and databases with a single, customized solution. By enabling subclass-level planning in both dollars and units and aligning inventory to the right stores and sizes, the retailer lowered inventory, increased sales and margins, and improved buyer productivity — with plans to roll out additional solutions.

DSW

Harris Mustafa

Executive Vice President, Supply Chain