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A Pigment partner, specialised in retail planning
Transform planning.Accelerate with AI.
We design and deploy the planning platforms that connect finance, merchandising, supply chain and sales. An independent firm, fifteen consultants, one single specialism.
Spring collection — range steering
Week 12
Buying budget12,4 M€
Committed9,1 M€
Left to commit3,3 M€
Knitwear82 %
Denim91 %
Shirts64 %
Accessories47 %
Denim already 91% committed by week 12
Illustration of range steering. Fictional data.
2023Year the firm was founded
15Consultants, all experts in the planning disciplines
500+Users supported and trained on the platforms we have deployed
4Disciplines covered by a single platform
What we do
We cover the four disciplines of planning.
In most companies, finance, merchandising and supply chain plan on three different sets of numbers. We bring those teams back onto the same data, in the same tool, at the same rhythm — and we stay until the process runs without us.
FP&A
Budget, rolling forecast, margin steering, multi-entity consolidation.
Merchandise & assortment
Range building, open to buy, collection framing, assortment by channel.
Supply planning
Buying, phasing, production planning, replenishment and store allocation.
Sales performance
Sales forecasting, network monitoring, trade events and residual stock steering.
Process map
The processes we equip.
From the business plan to store replenishment, each function plans across three horizons. We work on whichever scope is your priority, or across the whole map when you want to connect these processes together.
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Strategic12 to 36 months
Tacticalseason, quarter
Operationalweek, month
Finance & leadership
Business planBrand strategy
Top-down budgetBusiness planning
ForecastP&L reportingResidual stock steering
Merchandising
Range buildingCollection framing
Open to buyAssortmentBuying sessionsStore layouts
Product end of lifeMarkdown
Supply chain
Capacity planningSourcing strategy
Product sourcingPhasingProduction plan
Allocation & replenishmentSupply
Sales
Commercial planNetwork targets
PricingTrade events
Sales forecastWeekly planReturns
Planning when everything moves
An annual plan no longer survives its first quarter.
Tariffs, supply disruptions, demand reversals. The planning cycle has shortened faster than the tools that carry it. The point is no longer to produce one accurate plan, but to be able to produce a new one within hours.
Pigment's AI agents speed up that loop. They also shift where the effort sits: building a model becomes fast, knowing which one to build becomes decisive.
Frequency
Move from a quarterly forecast to a monthly, or even weekly one.
Traceability
Know where every figure comes from, and what has changed since the previous version.
Self-service
Business teams querying the plan themselves, without going through a central team.
Our approach
What we do alongside you.
Depending on where you stand, we take on the role your project is missing. Framing the roadmap with your business leaders, owning the product in front of the teams, or providing the consultants who build.
Vision and framing
We run requirement discovery with your business teams and turn the result into a readable roadmap: scope, workstreams, sequence, what gets done and what waits.
Product owner and solution expertise
A product owner who speaks both business and tool, writes the user stories, arbitrates the backlog and holds the quality of the build. This is the role we are asked for most.
Delivery
Teams assembled to build, test and deliver, with a cost-to-expertise ratio we are happy to compare with that of the large integrators.
Framing
High level design
User stories
Build
UAT
Go-live
Run
Industries
Retail experts, but not only.
Our main ground is brands with store networks, where the collection constraint meets the stock constraint. The same planning mechanics serve well beyond that.
Fashion & luxury
Collections, international networks, steering by house and by market.
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Retail & e-commerce
Omnichannel, online and store stock trade-offs, performance by point of sale.
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Beauty & cosmetics
Launches, core lines, shelf-life management.
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Food & beverage
Promotions, strong seasonality, SKU-level forecasting.
Energy & utilities
Financial planning, capacity, long-lived asset steering.
Business services
Workforce planning, staffing, recurring revenue forecasting.
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Partnership
A Pigment partner since 2024.
The platform we build most of our projects on. A single database for finance, merchandising and supply chain, with models that change as fast as the questions arrive.
> 300%return on investment
< 6 monthspayback period
10 à 20 %reduction in inventory value
50 %time saved on processes
Source: Forrester, The Total Economic Impact of Pigment.
Clients
They trust us.
Brands and houses across retail, beauty and luxury, in France and internationally.
Team
A team of fifteen consultants.
The firm was founded by Olivier Delande and Sarra Bouaziz. All our consultants have deployed planning platforms in demanding environments: multiple brands, multiple currencies, multiple entities. We practise this craft with a strong team spirit, including with our clients.
Olivier Delande
Founding partner
25 years of experience
Olivier has supported clients through operational and financial transformations for more than twenty years. He led the BI and EPM offerings at Cegid, then a 200-strong planning consultancy, before co-founding FutureWise. A graduate of Toulouse Business School, finance track.
Sarra Bouaziz
Founding partner
15 years of experience
For fifteen years Sarra has supported iconic retail brands and houses in redesigning their supply, merchandising and finance processes, as a product owner and project director. She also works upstream of projects: solution evaluation, budget estimation and project planning. An ISIMA engineering graduate.
Certified Pigment Advanced Application Builder and Anaplan Model Builder.
Damien Chapelet
Partner
Transformation consulting
Damien leads business and operational transformations across retail, luxury and consumer goods. He combines operational levers — commerce, merchandising, supply chain, planning — with financial steering, from framing through to delivery. He co-founded and grew a management consulting firm over more than ten years, building the teams and structuring the offerings.
Benjamin Aucher
Partner
15 years of experience
Benjamin implements planning solutions for supply chain as well as finance. A product owner and solution architect, he has worked on demanding distribution planning and merchandise planning topics for couture houses and beauty brands. An ESIEA engineering graduate.
Certified Pigment Advanced Application Builder and Anaplan Solution Architect.
Edgar Percebois
Solution architect
8 years of experience
Edgar designs and optimises EPM models, exclusively on Pigment for the past two years. He moves easily between business topics — finance, HR, supply chain, merchandising — and technical ones: APIs, SQL, data and BI.
Certified Pigment Advanced Application Builder and Anaplan Solution Architect.
Edouard Desespringalle
Functional lead
More than 10 years of experience
Edouard works on FP&A and financial steering processes. He knows those processes from the inside, along with several of the market solutions that support them: SAP, OneStream and Pigment.
Mael Barbé
Consultant
7 years of experience
Mael supports companies in implementing their FP&A and retail solutions. An Anaplan then Pigment expert, he holds a management control degree from IGR-IAE Rennes.
Yannick Persigny
Consultant
More than 10 years of experience
A statistician by training, Yannick was a business analyst in grocery retail before moving into consulting. He works on FP&A and sales performance projects.
Aiman Dakir
Consultant
5 years of experience
Aiman models use cases, develops applications and supports users in their business processes, across finance, supply chain and retail topics.
Camille Carpentier
Model builder
Career change from marketing
Camille spent several years in marketing before moving into planning and AI. She works at our clients as a builder, on model construction and evolution.
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Consultant
Open role
We are hiring product owners, model builders and finance or supply chain consultants.
Careers
Join the team.
The firm is growing fast. We are looking for people who want to work on demanding planning projects, for brands whose products they know, and to progress quickly alongside experienced teams.
You will learn alongside us, on projects where you see the whole chain: framing with business leaders, building the model, user acceptance testing and go-live.
- Projects at recognised retail brands and houses
- A growing firm, where responsibility comes quickly
- Training and certification on Pigment
- A partner alongside you on your first assignments
- A full view of the project, from framing through to go-live
- Speculative applications are welcome, including outside these four profiles
Consultant manager, finance or supply chain
You lead a workstream or a full project: framing with business leaders, running workshops, holding the budget and the roadmap. You come from management control, FP&A or supply chain, with early experience in consulting or a tool rollout.
Product owner, business analyst
You turn business needs into testable user stories, arbitrate the backlog and test the solution before the users do. You can hold a reasoned position in front of an impatient business team.
Model builder
You build the models on Pigment or Anaplan: dimension structure, formulas, performance, data integration. You know what a business rule costs to maintain over time.
AI and data specialist
You prepare the data and business logic so that agents produce reliable answers: master data quality, access governance, output evaluation. A data engineer or data analyst drawn to planning.