Revolutionizing Fashion Education: FIT Integrates AI-Powered InventorySmart For Future Retail Leaders

Impact Analytics™ Partners with Fashion Institute of Technology to Boost Fashion Education with AI

New York, March 3, 2025 – Impact Analytics, a leader in AI planning and merchandising, teams with Fashion Institute of Technology. The firm adds its tool InventorySmart to the course "Fashion Planning & Allocation." The tool gives students real work with smart tech for stock and plan work in fashion.

Naomi Gross guides the Fashion Business Management class. She says, "We use data tech in class so that students learn with real tools." InventorySmart gives each student real ties with AI tools that shape retail work. This work gives graduates a head start in jobs.

InventorySmart brings AI forecasting to the class. It shows ways to work on demand planning and stock aims. It links over 200 factors to stock moves. When students use the tool, they learn how data aids planning in stores. This work helps shops balance supply with purchase.

Prashant Agrawal, Impact Analytics’s founder and CEO, spoke on this work. He said, "We give students AI tools like InventorySmart to build skills for a data world." He praised FIT for putting AI in the class list. His words point to new ideas in fashion retail.

The InventorySmart tool aids shops with stock plans. It makes prediction and product lists clear. It cuts waste and brings clear choices. The work with FIT shows students work in a real setting that helps future careers.

The Fashion Institute of Technology is part of the State University of New York. FIT has led art, design, business, and tech for years. Over 8,000 students learn with both practice and class work. FIT mixes hands-on work with theory to prepare students for creative jobs.