Success Stories
Advanced Retail Planning—Implementation of Merchandise Planning System
Customer
A Fortune 500 multi-billion dollar U.S. major, a designer and marketer of branded apparel, footwear and accessories.
- Lack of uniformity in Merchandise Planning:
- Different individuals maintaining different ways of planning within the same organization
- Different versions of the plans floating without controls
- Exposure to risks of PC-based systems:
- Exposure to virus attacks
- Lack of traceability
- No controls over formulae
- Lack of adequate tools to:
- Manage workflow from style creation to Merchandise Planning and Sales Planning
- Automate data flow from approved bulk orders to Order Management Systems
- Change management
- Provide a flexible but structured platform for creating multichannel merchandising plans for each season/label by group/range/category, etc.
- Flow the plan data to create customer-level bulk orders with provisions for discounting and size explosion for each order
- Unlimited cluster heads and flexible target clusters to enable fine-grained planning
- Track production/cut units by distribution channel
- Message queue interface to transmit order data to Order Management Systems.
- Workflow with checks and balances to minimize process errors
- Streamlined processes
- Better control on “Available To Sell” position
- Fewer data errors
- Eliminated redundant data entry of bulk orders into Order Management Systems
