•	1) Dependency on excel-based tools: Our first proposed milestone is to replace the current excel-based tool known as the Child ASIN Tracker (CAT) as the core curation tracking mechanism. CMs are relying heavily on excel-based tools shared across the Selection team and with both internal and external partners. The scale of our assortment exacerbates the dependency on excel, as the sheer quantity of data causes the files to be sluggish and CMs can’t work in parallel on the same file. So, they constantly need to spawn multiple versions of files. Even when working on an excel file independently, the volume of product makes the file size large and slow to open, update, and save. This tool will eliminate the need for reconciling multiple files with a single tool that can be updated by multiple CMs at the same time.
•	2) Today CMs must create custom queries and analyses to inform their curation. Adding further strain to NAME_1’s scale, the assortment is dynamic due to inevitable fallout due to vendor and supply chain dependencies. So CMs face headwinds to ensure they are curating and managing against Selection targets given the ever-changing composition. Given the required time investment to produce views of actualized curation vs targets, CMs are not always able to pull this data as assortment shifts, impacting their ability to accurately assess their selection or manage segmentation. This tool will provide constant visibility into rollups and automate data crunching with hindsighting and forecasting, so CMs and CM leads can confidently and nimbly respond to emerging trends and in-season performance gaps and wins. This data visibility would also enable developing a localized selection strategy. 
•	3) Cumbersome processes requiring high judgement: CMs currently curate from .com and directly from vendors for new styles and the latest products. CMs manually sift through hundreds of thousands of products available on .com and from vendor line sheets with different formatting to curate and manage an assortment of over 30K ASINs at any given time. (See Appendix B for examples of current curation.) We will help by creating a viable universe of products to enable CMs to curate across .com and vendor line sheet products in one place with recommendations and images for cohesive assortment creation. We also seek to automate the manual steps CMs currently take to mitigate the impact of fallout by filtering out upstream any products with a high likelihood of fallout downstream.  Summarize how ML is integrated into the CMT tool ?
