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Why Pigment is winning right now.
In three years Pigment has gone from challenger to reference point in enterprise planning. The reason fits in one sentence: the platform changes as fast as the questions arrive, where previous-generation tools required a project for every change to the model.
250 M$raised in Series E to accelerate towards autonomous planning
4,7/5on Gartner Peer Insights, 4.6 on G2
2 to 4 monthsstated time to production on a supply chain scope
ISO 27001and SOC 2 Type 2, with European hosting available
Sources: Pigment communications, Gartner Peer Insights and G2.
What we build
What we build with Pigment.
Our projects span the full planning horizon. These are the modules that come up most often.
- Budget and rolling forecast, with multi-entity and multi-currency consolidation
- Open to buy and collection framing by family, channel and market
- Assortment and store clustering, through to the layout plan
- Supply plan, phasing and supplier order tracking
- Weekly sales plan and in-season residual stock steering
- P&L reporting by brand, entity and channel
Reference architecture
A Pigment partner, specialised in retail planning.
Your existing systems feed a single model. Each function works on its own horizon, and everyone reads the same figures.
Unify the data
ERP PLM Point of sale E-commerce WMS Suppliers Excel and filesPlan the collection, from strategy to operations
Strategic
Tactical
Operational
Merchandising & assortment
Range building Open to buy Assortment Buying sessions Store layoutsSales & retail
Sales forecasting Pricing Trade events Returns Product end of lifeSupply chain & buying
Product sourcing Capacity planning Phasing Production plan Allocation and replenishmentFinance & leadership
Business plan Top-down budget Forecast P&L reporting Residual stock steeringESG & traceability, across every horizon
Analysis & scenarios
Target setting Compare scenarios Drill down and slice the dataAligned stakeholders
Finance & leadership Merchandising Supply chain Buying & ESG Executives & board
Pigment AI
Modeller agentAnalyst agentAI search
InsightsPlanner agentML forecasting
The full scope. No project starts by covering all of it. We sequence in workstreams, beginning where the pain is sharpest.
What sets the platform apart
What previous-generation tools could not do.
Our consultants have deployed several generations of planning platforms. Here is what, from their point of view, has genuinely changed.
A model that changes during the session
Adding a dimension, a market or a product level happens during the workshop, not in a development release. The business sees the effect of its request immediately.
Scenarios isolated from the reference plan
Test a tariff increase or a supplier change without duplicating the model or freezing the approved plan.
Native AI, not a bolt-on module
The agents work inside your governed data. They analyse variances, write the summaries and build models from a description.
Native connectors
SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Snowflake, BigQuery and the Excel files your teams will carry on using.
Fast time to production
A first release delivered in months rather than a year, which changes how a planning project gets funded.
Group-level governance
Rights by profile, change traceability, security certifications and data that is not used to train models.
Results
What the platform changes, measured.
> 300%return on investment: for every euro invested, net benefits are tripled
< 6 monthspayback period
10 à 20 %reduction in inventory value
50 %less time spent on planning processes
A few gains published by users
8 days → 4 minto refresh actual and forecast P&L, at Supercell
80 %less time spent aggregating data, at Carta
20 à 25 %forecast accuracy gained, at Ankorstore
6 dayssaved on scenario creation and analysis, at Evenflo
Testimonials published by Pigment. We did not run these projects.
Source: Forrester, The Total Economic Impact of Pigment. These are the vendor's figures; the gains seen on our projects depend on the starting point.
Where we stand
Independent of the tool you choose.
We are not resellers and no software vendor holds a stake in us. When Pigment is not the right answer to your need, we tell you before the project, not during it.
Our consultants have been deploying planning platforms for more than fifteen years, across several generations of tools. What carries over from one tool to the next is process knowledge, and that is what you are buying.
Migration
Rebuilding existing models from a legacy planning tool, without losing business logic.
Project recovery
Audit and turnaround of rollouts that fell short of their target.
Run and skills transfer
Handover to internal teams, so the model lives on without us.