Planning is a decision support tool encompassing Merchandise, Store, Assortment, and Cross-Channel Planning, that is highly configurable with industry standard workflows. Used as a stand-alone solution or tightly integrated with the Island Pacific Merchandising suite, Planning provides a seamless link to your strategic information. An advanced planning and decision support tool, Planning is easy and flexible to implement, intuitive to use and scalable for performance and growth. Island Pacific Planning has a proven track record for ROI such as: improved stock turn, increased mark-ups, lower average inventory and increases in gross margin.
An incredibly comprehensive planning Solution, Planning represents decades of domain knowledge and methodology. Pre-Season plans are tracked and monitored with In-Season re-forecasting and analysis tools. Planning can be tailored and modeled, but a best-practice Process Flow is conveniently shipped with the system.
As part of our Assortment Management suite, Planning is a sophisticated, yet easy to use decision support tool encompassing Merchandise Planning, Store/ Multi-Channel Planning, Assortment Planning and Allocation. Representing decades of domain knowledge and methodology, Planning was developed as an intelligent retail application that integrates easily with existing ERP systems.
Planning can be configured to meet the specific needs of your business and planning requirements. Alternate hierarchies, plan templates, and measures can be easily tailored to support pre-season planning, in-season re-forecasting, open-to-buy and critical analytics. Allocation features allocation methods such as Sell thru (Clearance %), Copy Allocation, Performance vs Plan, and Send as per Assortment Plan. Workflows with the specific worksteps of the planning process can be defined to direct the planning processes to suit your requirements.
Planning has a three-tiered architecture and embodies best practices in retail planning methodology combined with state of the art technology. Designed to integrate easily with any external system, Planning is an open system, running on Windows or Linux operating systems, utilizing many industry standard databases, including DB2, SQL Server, Oracle or Postgres. Planning is portable as well; any Planning user can be anywhere working over the internet or a VPN, accessing a central planning server.
Integrated Merchandise Planning, Store/ Multi-Channel Planning, Assortment Planning, all in one sophisticated, yet easy to use product - Planning is one organic product where these functions are implemented as separate templates, all of which behave in a consistent manner and as part of one system.
Using powerful algorithms and statistical science and considering thousands of data points and business conditions Allocation provides the retailer with efficient and precise distribution decisions. Visibility to plans and open-to-ship, key performance indicators and store personalities enable allocators to accurately allocate style, color and size assortments.
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