JBS Textile Group is one of Denmark's leading textile groups — but behind its many successful acquisitions lay a hidden risk: buying based on gut feeling. By implementing FASHIONBOARD, JBS replaced guesswork with data — resulting in record-high availability and a fundamental sense of calm across the organisation.
Before 2019, primary responsibility for inventory management sat with the sales department. Buying decisions were often made on the basis of solid market experience, history and a feel for demand — an approach that worked well for many years.
But as the group grew and acquired more brands, a need emerged for greater transparency and a shared language across the organisation to support buying decisions.
Implementing FASHIONBOARD became a central part of the shift to a more structured, data-driven approach to buying and inventory management. At the same time, responsibility for buying was consolidated with dedicated buyers, supported by a single system that gathers data across the entire group.
Today FASHIONBOARD works as a central decision-making tool in everyday work — not as a replacement for experience, but as a supplement that creates overview and reassurance. The partnership with FASHIONBOARD is built on close, ongoing dialogue, mutual trust and professional sparring, making it possible to get complex brands running stably and to keep adapting to JBS's needs.
The shift to a data-driven setup has produced tangible results:
High availability. JBS just closed a season with the highest stock availability in the company's history.
Strengthened liquidity. When acquiring new companies, FASHIONBOARD is used to quickly build overview, optimise stock and free up capital.
Clearer decisions. A shared data foundation has created a more nuanced dialogue about assortment, priorities and deliberate choices — including when it makes strategic sense to go out of stock in certain sizes.
The next step for JBS is to let data from their NOOS (Never Out of Stock) business guide the complex seasonal buys — among other things by working more deliberately with colour and size distribution based on intelligent forecasts.
After an 8-year journey with data-driven inventory management, JBS Textile Group has clear views on what it takes to succeed with a tool like FASHIONBOARD. Their advice to others moving from gut feeling to data:
1. Make it a shared success. It's crucial that the implementation is experienced as a tool that builds on the organisation's existing knowledge — not as a break with previous ways of working. Present the system as an eye-opener that gathers knowledge and helps in everyday work.
2. Invest in the people behind the screen. A system only creates value when employees are equipped to use it. Give it time, so the people who will use the system can really get to grips with it and get the most out of the learning.
3. Choose the right partner. There's great value in a partner you can have an open dialogue with and where there's mutual respect. That's the best foundation for a partnership that develops over time — one where you dare to challenge each other and create value for both parties.
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