Fabrikatör for Beauty & Skincare
Plan every shade, not just every product
Skincare, colour cosmetics, haircare and fragrance. Demand splits across shades and sizes, your filler works to long lead times and high minimums, and a launch can clear a quarter of stock in a week. Fabrikatör tells you what to reorder, how much, and when, per variant.
🧴Vitamin C Serum30ml9 dayscoverRestock now
💄Satin LipstickShade 04 Rosewood16 dayscoverOrder soon
🎁Ritual Gift SetLimited edition12 dayscoverOrder soon
🧼Gentle Cleanser150ml34 dayscoverHealthy
3 SKUs need attentionCreate PO
Forecasted demand: Vitamin C Serum 30ml Actual Forecast
Lumen Contract Manufacturing74-day lead timeDraft PO
Vitamin C Serum 30ml×900$5,400
Satin Lipstick, Shade 04×600$2,700
Ritual Gift Set×400$4,800
Arrives in 74 days$12,900
“Great app if you're having trouble figuring out when to buy stock. Easy to use, with a demo call and Loom videos to help you implement each area.”
How Fabrikatör fits beauty & skincare
The planning toolkit, tuned for beauty & skincare
Replenishment
Restock suggestions per shade and size
Every variant gets its own reorder recommendation from its own sales velocity, current stock, incoming purchase orders and supplier lead time. You approve the ones you want.
Explore Replenishment →🧴Vitamin C Serum30ml9 dayscoverRestock now
💄Satin LipstickShade 04 Rosewood16 dayscoverOrder soon
🎁Ritual Gift SetLimited edition12 dayscoverOrder soon
🧼Gentle Cleanser150ml34 dayscoverHealthy
3 SKUs need attentionCreate PO
Forecasting
Plan the launch as well as the baseline
Forecasts learn your steady sell-through, and you layer launches, gifting sets and campaigns on top as demand events, so the spike is bought months ahead rather than survived.
Explore Forecasting →Forecasted demand: Vitamin C Serum 30ml Actual Forecast
“Really helped us get on top of inventory management. User-friendly, feature-rich, and support has been quick and super helpful.”
Purchase Orders
Built around your filler's calendar
Suggestions become supplier-ready purchase orders that respect MOQs and batch sizes, so a 74-day lead time is planned for rather than discovered.
Explore Purchase Orders →Lumen Contract Manufacturing74-day lead timeDraft PO
Vitamin C Serum 30ml×900$5,400
Satin Lipstick, Shade 04×600$2,700
Ritual Gift Set×400$4,800
Arrives in 74 days$12,900
Analytics
Catch the shade that is aging out
Stock-cover reporting per variant flags slow movers while there is still shelf life to promote them, and shows which shades quietly tie up your cash.
Explore Analytics →68%Sell-through, 30 days▲ 12%
34dAvg. stock coveron target
−18%Dead stock vs. last quarter▲ improving
Backorders & Pre-orders
Keep the sale when a batch slips
If a filling run is late, backorders and pre-orders with an honest ETA hold the order instead of sending a loyal customer to a competitor.
Explore Backorders & Pre-orders →🧴Vitamin C Serum30mlOut of stock
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🧴Vitamin C SerumShips with incoming PO · Arrives in 74 daysPre-order
Backorders on — selling through the restock gap.
Sound familiar?
Why beauty inventory is hard
01
One product, a dozen demand curves
A foundation is not a SKU, it is thirty of them. Shades sell at wildly different rates, and planning at product level hides the four that are about to run out.
02
Your filler needs months and minimums
Contract manufacturers and fillers work to long lead times and high MOQs. By the time a bestseller looks low, the reorder window closed weeks ago.
03
Formulations expire
You cannot buy deep just to be safe. Overstock does not sit quietly, it ages out, and shelf life left on arrival matters as much as the quantity.
04
Launches and campaigns break the baseline
A collaboration, a gifting set or one viral video triples demand for a week and leaves the rest of the range untouched. Averages plan for neither.
Beauty & Skincare questions, answered
What is inventory planning for a beauty brand?
Inventory planning decides what to reorder, how much to buy, and when to place the order, working from sales velocity per variant, current stock, incoming purchase orders, filling and contract-manufacturer lead times, MOQs and expected demand. Inventory tracking tells you what you hold today. Planning tells you what to do about it before a bestseller runs out.
Do we still need an inventory tracking system as well?
Usually yes, and they do different jobs. Fabrikatör is the planning layer, not your WMS: it does not run your warehouse, pick orders or hold lot and bin locations. It sits on top of the systems that do and answers the buying question they leave open.
Can it plan at shade and size level rather than product level?
Yes, and for beauty that is the point. Each variant is planned on its own demand, so a shade selling three times faster than its siblings is flagged for reorder on its own timeline instead of hiding inside a product-level average.
How do you plan around expiry dates and batch freshness?
By keeping depth honest rather than by tracking lots. Forecasts and stock-cover targets per variant replace the buy-deep-just-in-case habit that ends in written-off stock, and analytics flags slow movers early enough to promote them. Lot and batch traceability itself belongs in your inventory or warehouse system.
We launch collections and gifting sets. Will the forecast cope?
Launches are planned as demand events on top of the baseline, so the buy goes in against the spike you expect rather than last quarter's average. Sets and bundles draw on their component stock, so a gifting set is planned without quietly emptying the shades it contains.