What data do you need, and how fast can it go live?

The core inputs are:

• a store hierarchy with the tiers you want to manage,
• a product hierarchy of families and references,
• the sales, inventory and order data that already feeds replenishment.

You do not need a perfect dataset on day one: define the tiers, let products activate against them, then refine typologies and exceptions as you go. Because assortment plugs into planning you already run rather than a separate system, teams stand it up fast rather than through a multi-quarter transformation project. In practice, Plum Living went live on Flowlity Core in around three months, and Jolimoi was up and running on Flowlity Lite, the plug-and-play tier, in a few weeks.