Budget Planning with bottom up forecasting
In fashion retail, planning for the future is about making decisions that align financial goals with real-world demand, across every part of the business. Hakio’s Budget Planning module helps fashion brands navigate that complexity with structure and clarity.
With this module, Hakio’s budgeting and forecasting software provides the flexibility to adapt, the detail to go deep, and the tools to stay accountable - all while fostering stronger collaboration between finance, merchandising, and buying teams.
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Set Top-Down Budgets with Flexibility
Hakio's Budget Planning Module enables fashion brands to build comprehensive, top-down budgets rooted in the financial metrics that matter most.
Budgets can be structured across multiple hierarchical levels, such as:
- Markets and regions - to reflect geographic strategies and localized goals
- Sales channels - accounting for differing dynamics in e-commerce, wholesale, and retail
- Product groups or categories - ensuring financial focus aligns with assortment planning
This level of flexibility supports better cross-functional collaboration. And because everything is structured within Hakio's operational budgeting software, your budget remains consistent.
Align Demand Plans to Budgets
Strategic budgets are typically set at a high level, while day-to-day decisions happen much closer to the product and the customer. With this module you will have a budgeting and forecasting software that closes that gap by allowing you to break down top-level budgets to SKU level, using demand forecasts as the distribution key.
This ensures that financial targets are grounded in market realities. And as forecasts shift, your budgets remain aligned - enabling more responsive, yet strategically consistent planning.
Scenario Comparison
It doesn’t matter if you're planning for an aggressive growth strategy, a cautious response to market slowdowns, or something in between, Hakio’s operational budgeting software gives you the tools to explore what each path could look like - before making a commitment.
You can test assumptions, adjust inputs, and compare outcomes across different scenarios to better understand how decisions at one level impact the business as a whole. This functionality supports proactive planning, enabling your team to anticipate challenges, quantify trade-offs, and seize opportunities with greater confidence.
Maintain Version Control for Accountability
Effective budgeting requires more than just setting targets - it demands the ability to track, compare, and learn over time. Working with our budgeting software ensures that every adjustment has context, making it easier to review how and why certain decisions were made.
It also supports clear governance by providing a transparent audit trail - essential when multiple stakeholders are involved across finance, planning, and merchandising. When the season ends, these locked versions become a valuable benchmark for post-season analysis, helping teams assess forecast accuracy, identify gaps, and refine future planning.
Ensure Financial Alignment
Hakio's Budget Planning Module ensures that merchandise plans are in sync with financial targets at every level - channel, collection, and category. By providing a unified budgeting and forecasting software for planning, it fosters collaboration between financial and operational teams, ensuring that everyone is working towards common objectives.
This alignment enhances margin control, supports strategic growth, and enables your organization to respond agilely to market dynamics.
Ready to dive deeper? Explore how Hakio’s other modules support everything from and to allocation, and supply strategy.
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