Geek & Chic: Analytics redefining fashion instincts

By Shivani Dabas Sihag, Product AnalystIn recent years, advanced analytics has become a core component across a wide range of consumer-facing industries to address increasing complexity.

Digital companies—with Amazon leading the pack—are at the forefront, constantly finding new and innovative ways to apply analytics throughout the value chain, from merchandising to marketing to operations to human resources.

The apparel industry, comparatively, lags behind in embracing analytics, often favoring merchant-and designer-driven “gut feel” over insight-driven decision making.

Apparel players point to several core challenges as constraints for investing in their analytics capabilities, including poor data quality, a rapidly changing assortment and competitive landscape, high SKU and logistics complexity, and limited analytics expertise within the current employee base.

To effectively start with fashion retail analytics, players in the fashion retail sector need to first decide where analytics will help them achieve the greatest business impact.

Businesses need to develop a cross-functional road map to make tough decisions on where analytics matter most.

 Retailers face critical challenges when it comes to discovering the limits of the data available.

Available data can offer useful insights if used appropriately.

This is where an appropriate data ecosystem backed by fashion retail analytics can help companies to tackle challenges such as an ever-changing assortment, rapidly changing trends, and non-standardized SKU.

A Few Insights: “You never design by data, but the data, but the data provides a compass as you’re navigating a hunch,” says Shinola CEO Tom Lewand.

The retail eCommerce companies are now working towards imbibing analytics in their product to stand out in the market, this makes way from seller, customer to their warehouse.

Power BI, tableau, excel, SQL and creative analytical minds are in great need and it seems to be rising tremendously by 2022.

The data metrics such as seller price, warehouse funnel and customer retention alongside campaign strategy plays a vital role in identifying opportunities for the company.

The right product at the right price and the right time: That’s the retail recipe.

 Besides trends in assortment and pricing, retailers have to stay on top of the technological forces that are shaping the customer shopping experience.

One of the big trends in retail now is visual search, which is more naturally suited to how people approach their shopping experience.

Our competition is already tracking and measuring retail metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs).

    Having the right data will help us serve our customers better.

The chic market has already opened doors for the geeks to make their hands dirty with numbers and trends.

The race has just started.

References:  Bio: Shivani Dabas Sihag is a Product Analyst at a Luxury retail ecommerce Dubai-based company who takes care of different streams( customer, seller and warehouse,i.

e inventory) analytics and identifies impact value of the product features.

She is a member of Women in product Delhi NCR Chapter and also active in Women Techmakers community.

Shivani is driven by the unrelenting pursuit of customer driven focus, ideals and user experience.

She has also studied philanthropy entrepreneurship and worked towards digitally transforming a Delhi based non-profit organisation, making it win 6th eNGO Challenge Awards 2020.

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