Assortment Board
An assortment board is a visual layout of which styles, colors, and options will be offered across channels, stores, or clusters — the visual expression of an assortment plan, showing what goes where before depth and buy quantities are set.
Where a line board shapes the full range, an assortment board focuses on distribution: giving a flagship the full breadth, a smaller door a curated core, and e-commerce the long tail. Seeing it visually makes over- and under-assorting obvious by channel.
The assortment board is the bridge from the visual range to the numeric buy. It sits between the line board and the buy plan, and it works best when a change on the board flows into the depth-by-channel numbers rather than living in a separate file.
Canvas — the visual line board inside RetailNorthstar — puts these on one connected board, live against the plan from board to buy.