Just ahead of NRF 2026, 7thonline announces the launch of 7thSense, a multi-dimensional AI-powered ranking engine enabling brands to gain insight on localized merchandising strategies and confidently execute winning assortments, reordering and promotional decisions—down to style, color, size—at the store level. The new AI advancement debuts by powering three functionalities: Like Style Planning, New Item Reorder and Promotional Forecasting.
“7thSense reshapes how 7thonline is approaching AI. It’s multi-dimensional and layered—emulating the retailer’s ‘sixth sense’ for merchandising. Most retailers simply don’t have the time or resources to drill down into the level of detail that today’s market demands, and that’s where 7thSense steps in,” said Max Ma, CEO of 7thonline. “7thSense helps brands finally get ahead of chronic inventory challenges by analyzing product performance with granular insights, empowering nuanced, data-backed decisions by SKU by channel.”
Continuously evaluating hundreds of product and location attributes, retailers can rank new and seasonal products against past winners—across silhouette, fabric, color, size, region and more—to repeat successful patterns and make confident decisions with limited sales history.
7thSense in Action:
Using advanced AI capabilities, 7thSense automatically generates a similarity matrix of various product and location attributes by selecting high-performing items to reveal connections between products and recommend strategies that align planning and execution. This new AI engine enhances assortment planning and in-season open-to-buy reordering and promotional decisions—elevating them from tactical features to strategic decision systems.
LIKE STYLE PLANNING
7thonline’s updated Like Styles feature uses product similarity insights to predict the performance of new and seasonal items at individual locations—down to style, color and size. Rather than selecting Like Styles from a structured hierarchy, 7thSense analyzes all potential styles from different categories. With detailed insights, assortment planning teams can replicate winning strategies, localize their mix effectively and sharply reduce the risk of markdowns or lost sales for products with limited data.
NEW ITEM REORDER
7thonline’s New Item Reorder uses real-time sales velocity and 7thSense’s similarity index to project order quantities for new items at various store locations. 7thSense’s AI monitors early performance and automatically recommends reorder quantities that are adjusted for seasonality, lead times and individual store demand. The results are smarter reorders, fewer errors and optimized inventory without the manual scramble.
PROMOTIONAL FORECASTING
7thonline’s latest Promotional Forecasting enhancement determines an ideal cadence for new and seasonal items based on past promotional lifts of similar styles throughout their lifecycle. By analyzing historical lift and current inventory, 7thSense predicts unit movement and sales impact for various promotional activities before a promotion goes live—empowering planners to understand the potential sales life of promotions and make dynamic promotional decisions with confidence, maximizing profit impact and minimizing margin risk.
The new release utilizes predictive analytics, insight generation and pattern recognition to enable new sales trend discoveries and improve efficiency by quickly and accurately analyzing data at the most granular level.
To learn more about 7thSense, stop by NRF Booth 6823 or book a demo to chat with the team.
