customer stories

How Trendly reduced inventory waste by 32%

About

Trendly is a contemporary clothing brand offering seasonal collections and everyday essentials through its online store and retail partners. With frequent product launches and changing customer preferences, inventory decisions play a critical role in its growth.

Industry

Fashion & apparel

Company size

50-75 employees

Founded

2018

Challenge

Trendly's rapid growth made inventory planning increasingly complex. Demand varied significantly across products, sizes, regions, and seasons, making it difficult to determine how much stock to order and where to allocate it.

Overstock created costly markdowns while underestimated demand caused popular products to sell out early, resulting in missed revenue and frustrated customers.

Approach

Vesper brought together historical sales, inventory movement, seasonal trends, and customer demand signals to help Trendly anticipate demand more accurately.

The team focused on:

Automate recurring reports and approvals
Route incoming requests intelligently
Synchronize data between core systems
Flag exceptions for human review

This gave merchandising teams clearer insights while keeping final inventory decisions in their hands.

Solution

Vesper introduced an intelligent forecasting layer across Trendly's inventory operations, continuously analyzing demand patterns and highlighting where stock levels required attention.

Trendly could now:

Automatically classify and assign requests
Generate reports from live data
Streamline routine approval processes
Surface operational issues instantly
Scale workflows without added complexity

Within six months, Trendly reduced excess inventory and markdown dependency while keeping more high-demand products available throughout each collection cycle.

“Fashion moves quickly, and our inventory decisions need to move with it. Vesper gives our team a much clearer picture of what customers want, helping us make better decisions earlier and avoid unnecessary stock.”