Introducing Hakio’s inventory forecasting software
Notice the build-up. Reduce excess inventory
In the fashion industry, inventory and demand planning have never been simple. You're planning around shifting trends, tight timelines, and real commercial pressure. The work is demanding, high-stakes, and increasingly complex. And one of the toughest challenges? Balancing availability with agility. In fashion, too much inventory used to feel like the safe choice. When margins were higher and the pressure was lower, overproduction was often seen as a better risk than stockouts. But that’s no longer the case.
Finding the right balance with inventory forecasting.
Holding excess stock might protect you from lost sales - but it also puts pressure on every other part of the business. Capital is locked up, margins shrink, and excess ends up on clearance racks - or worse, in long-term storage.
At the same time, reacting too aggressively to avoid overstock can create a different issue: stockouts, lost revenue, and broken retailer trust.
The truth is, you already know this balancing act. You live it every day. What Hakio’s inventory planning software brings to the table is the structure, data, and automation to help you manage that balance with more ease and less risk.
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Inventory planning software that secures real-time signals, better timing and less risk
Mastering inventory and demand planning in fashion is all about balance - the balance between availability and overstock, speed and accuracy, risk and responsiveness. To succeed, you need to stay closely in tune with shifting demand.
Hakio’s inventory planning software is built to help you navigate that fine line with confidence, clarity, and control.
While other solutions often cater to general planning needs across various sectors, we design specifically for the fashion industry - its unique pace, pressure, and unpredictability. That means recognizing the difference between NOOS and seasonal planning, understanding the nuance of vendor constraints, and designing inventory forecasting tools that reflect the real decisions you make every day.
Seasonal planning is another balancing act you know all too well. You make decisions months in advance, based on insight, historical performance, and the instincts that come from deep market knowledge.
But even the most experienced teams can’t always predict which pieces will break through - and which won’t. And once the season starts, every day counts.
Hakio’s inventory planning software is designed to support fast, informed decision-making. By giving you real-time visibility into collection performance, your team can spot underperformers early - creating space to shift inventory, activate wholesale opportunities, or pivot before markdowns become inevitable.
With NOOS, staying in stock is about availability, but furthermore, it’s about protecting your brand’s promise. Your customers and partners expect consistency. Your teams work hard to deliver on that, often using a blend of reports, sales data, and deep planning expertise.
But when safety stock becomes your only line of defense, capital gets locked in slow-moving inventory. Inventory that could be driving growth, funding development, or improving cash flow elsewhere.
Hakio supports your existing process - not by replacing it, but by sharpening it. Our inventory forecasting platform gives clear signals at SKU level, showing you exactly when a variant is at risk - so you can act with precision and confidence. That means fewer fire drills, smarter replenishment, and more control.
Inventory forecasting down to every size, color, and style
In fashion, a missed signal in one size or color can result in lost revenue, unnecessary markdowns, or broken partner trust. That’s why Hakio’s inventory planning software delivers forecasting at the most granular level - helping you manage complexity without losing clarity.
We show you where it’s accelerating, where it's slowing down, and what it means for your inventory decisions. While most brands rely on pre-set size curves or historical ratios, Hakio does the heavy lifting behind the scenes - surfacing real-time, actionable insights that help you stay one step ahead.
”Hakio saved our team 8 hours per week since we no longer have to build heavy Excel reports.”
Maeve MacLeod, Production team - Organic Basics
Free up resources - and reinvest where it matters most
Avoiding stockouts and excess inventory isn’t just about minimizing risk - it’s about unlocking strategic potential. When your team is no longer tied up in manual reporting, reactive decisions, or navigating warehouse overflow, you free up valuable time, capital, and focus.
Those resources can be redirected toward what drives your business forward - like product development, supplier partnerships, or entering new markets.
With the right inventory forecasting and planning tools, your team can shift from constantly reacting to proactively optimizing. That transition improves daily operations and elevates your ability to grow, lead, and adapt.
Unlike generic retail platforms, Hakio is built exclusively for fashion. From NOOS to short-season drops, we understand the complexity, timing, and pressure that define fashion planning - and we’ve designed our platform to support exactly that.
No two brands plan the same way. No two products behave the same way. That’s why we don’t believe in one-size-fits-all forecasting. You know what makes your business tick. Hakio helps you scale that knowledge across your team with structure, transparency, and speed.
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Hakio combines advanced inventory forecasting, machine learning, and probabilistic models to reflect the real variability you face - giving your team a clearer picture of what’s likely, not just what’s possible.
And we deliver it all through a clean, collaborative interface that makes it easy for planning, buying, sales, and ops to work from one shared source of truth.
Your planning team knows the business better than any algorithm. We’re here to make that expertise go even further - by removing friction, surfacing risks sooner, and giving you the tools to make sharper decisions with less effort.
That’s why we built Hakio: not to change the way you work - but to empower it.
Hakio helps fashion planners:
- Reduce unnecessary safety stock
- Replenish NOOS more frequently without overbuying
- Track collection performance in real time
- React earlier when items move faster - or slower - than expected
- Forecast inventory at SKU level (colorways, size splits, and more)