Socrates calculates demand and order quantities at SKU level, across all channels. Socrates recommends, your planning team approves.
Many retailers still plan demand and reorders in Excel, based on experience and gut feeling. That is error-prone and costs planners hours every week.
Wholesale, your own stores, the online store and marketplaces each have a different demand profile. A spreadsheet can barely capture that.
What you order today often arrives months later. A forecast error shows up late, and by then it is hard to correct.
Safety stock ties up capital. Even so, the items your customers actually want to buy end up missing.
Socrates forecasts demand at SKU level, across all channels and sizes. The system detects shifts in demand automatically.
Minimum order quantities, lead times and service-level targets go straight into the calculation. The result is a concrete order proposal.
Your planners review the proposals, adjust them and approve them. Socrates recommends, people approve.
Sales, inventory, your goals, rules such as minimum order quantities and your planners' experience are the basis of your ordering decisions. Socrates turns all of this into your Company Brain: company-owned, traceable and more valuable with every decision.
One run, using a fashion retailer as an example
Sales and inventory arrive through the existing middleware, for almost 2,000 SKUs in the never-out-of-stock assortment.
paretos forecasts demand per SKU and calculates order quantities, with lead times of around six months.
The team reviews the order proposals and approves them, almost at the push of a button.
Socrates
Planners & replenishment agent,
hand in hand
Your Company Brain
Minimum order quantities, lead times, service-level targets and your planners’ corrections in one place. Learns with every approval.
Agentic AI
Remembers every planner correction, for example on fringe sizes or seasons, and explains every order proposal.
Expert Engines
Forecasts per SKU, channel and size, turned into order quantities within your constraints. No LLM.
Extraction · Linking
Knowledge & signals
Seasons, returns and your planners’ experience
Connectors · Pipelines
Systems
ERP, middleware and marketplaces
A European fashion retailer with a never-out-of-stock assortment: these products have to be available at all times. Almost 2,000 SKUs, around six months of lead time.
Until the project started, the retailer's planning team planned these items in Excel. Today paretos calculates demand and order proposals, and the team approves them.
Stockout rate
5–6%
Before: 10%
Inventory
−12%
Manual planning
Around 10 hours less per week
Before: Excel from multiple sources
Order handover
Almost at the push of a button
Before: Weekly cycle, gut feeling
“For example, the system recommended ordering significantly more in fringe sizes.”
No. Many customers start with incomplete data. During onboarding, we improve the data foundation together with your team.
Socrates connects to existing systems, including in-house solutions that have grown over the years. At one fashion retailer among our customers, the data arrives automatically through the existing middleware.
You will see first insights within the first few weeks. With long lead times, the effect on inventory and availability only shows once the first optimized orders arrive. The fashion retailer results on this page were measured after twelve months of the project.
Not by default: Socrates proposes order quantities, and the team reviews, adjusts and approves them. Autopilot is available on request. Orders that meet the defined approval rules then go into the system automatically.
Especially for assortments with many SKUs and long lead times, such as never-out-of-stock and basics programs. Lascana also uses it for seasonal pre-orders and its marketplace business.
paretos has no list price. You pay a fixed annual license plus a one-time onboarding package at the start, with kick-off, integration and your dedicated Customer Success Manager. We build custom extensions such as your own dashboards as a one-off, priced by effort. How much you invest depends on the scope of your use case.
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