Case Study: Global Footwear Retailer achieves 2M extra Black Friday unit sales and 80% faster allocations with ToolsGroup

Footwear Retailer Gives Competitors a Run for Their Money with ToolsGroup

Global Footwear Retailer, a $30B global athletic footwear brand with 1,150+ stores and 70+ distribution centers, faced untenable manual retail planning across Excel and twelve disparate systems as its direct-to-consumer business grew. The company needed streamlined, automated pre-season and in-season allocation and replenishment plus lifecycle price management, and engaged ToolsGroup to address these challenges using its Allocation, Automated Replenishment, and later Retail Pricing solutions.

ToolsGroup deployed Allocation and Automated Replenishment worldwide across all direct-to-consumer channels and went live in under six months, with Pricing added for a subsidiary in 2020. By trusting ToolsGroup’s recommendations for Black Friday the retailer sold 2 million more units versus the prior year, recovered the project cost in one day, and reduced allocation time by 80%, delivering rapid, measurable ROI and productivity gains.