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CASE STUDIES

Cash Flow Optimization Unlocks Growth

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At-a-Glance
Industry: Fashion
# of employees: 10-50
Established: 2014
Website: margauxny.com
The Story

Margaux is dedicated to quality and customer experience –  this meant ensuring that each customer could access a wide range of sizes. Each style and color wave had numerous size variants that made historical sales tracking and demand planning down to the SKU level a challenge. This resulted in overstocking lower volume SKUs, tying up tens of thousands of dollars of capital. With Fuse, Margaux can now easily see their sales data, inventory levels, open POs and place their inventory buys with confidence.

Fuse has significantly lightened our workload as the breadth of our SKU offering required painstaking, time consuming analysis. Because of Fuse, we were able to better use our capital and time.

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Sarah Pierson
Co-Founder

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About Margaux
Founders Sarah and Alexa launched Margaux in 2014 out of their search for beautiful, wear-everywhere shoes. Combining form and function, their classic wardrobe staples have been re-engineered with best-in-class technical design, allowing for shoes that are as beautiful as they are comfortable. 

The Issue
Prior to using Fuse, Margaux experienced overstocks in their inventory tying up thousands of dollars of capital.
 
The Solution
With Fuse, Margaux can now easily understand their sales, inventory, and PO data in order to place inventory buys with confidence. Our predictive forecasting ensures they can meet customer demand in the most profitable way.
 
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Challenge

Given the color and size variety of products offered, it was difficult to keep track of historical performance and leverage that data to accurately forecast demand. Like many brands, Margaux wanted to make sure that each and every customer could get the exact product in the exact size they wanted. With the additional variables of long lead times and uncertainty around new product launches, a ripple effect formed and their dedication to the customer experience ultimately resulted in overstocking their product assortment. This resulted in tens of thousands of dollars tied up in capital.

 

“We lacked visibility to critical data. We needed a solution that could accurately forecast our buys while considering a healthy amount of inventory to hold.”

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Solution

Fuse centralizes Margaux’s data and automatically generates an accurate demand forecast by using powerful AI. By providing clear visibility into sales by color, style and size, we helped the team eliminate the tedious, manual forecasting they were accustomed to with Excel. With accurate forecasts and WOS targets in place, Margaux can confidently meet customer demand while optimizing their cash flow.

 

“Fuse has significantly lightened our workload as the breadth of our SKU offering required painstaking, time-consuming analysis.”

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Results

By eliminating complicated spreadsheets and redundant workflow, the team is now able to focus their time on more strategic initiatives. By investing more accurately in inventory, Margaux has more capital and time to further fuel their growth. 

 

“Because of Fuse, we’re able to better use our capital and our time."

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