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Bluefire’s business areas of focus for retailers, distributors, and consumer goods companies:

Basic items ordering and store replenishment.  Setting supplier order quantities, DC allocation quantities, and store replenishment quantities based on all relevant economic factors (sales forecast, sales variability, promotions, sales probability distribution shape, margin, cost of capital, etc.) as well as store presentation requirements.

Seasonal items ordering and store allocation.  Determining supplier order quantities and store allocation quantities for fashion items, following a push (start of season), pull (in-season), push (end of life) allocation approach, while correctly managing store presentation needs.

Fashion items store allocation.  Determining store allocation quantities for fashion items, following a push (start of season), pull (in-season), push (end of life) allocation approach, while correctly managing store presentation needs.

Markdown optimization.  Determining the optimal timing and depth of markdowns for fashion or season products to maximize profitability.

Assortment optimization.  Determining the optimal store-by-store assortment based on analysis of historical sales data, typically combined with socio-demographic data and 3rd party sales data.

Open-to-buy management.  Management of inventories to budgets, ensuring that the right economic decisions are made when order need to be reduced to meet OTB targets.