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Merchandise Planning
Manthan’s Merchandise Planning framework is a comprehensive solution that spans a variety of planning needs, across various levels of your retail enterprise. The solution equips you with capabilities like grading and clustering, strategic planning, merchandise planning, assortment planning, allocation planning and OTB (Open-To-Buy) management.
Built on a single analytic framework that integrates planning and business intelligence, this solution provides planners with all the requisite capabilities, thus freeing them from dependence on multiple applications and manual methods. You’ll find that this solution truly makes planning a process-centric, people-independent practice.
This solution framework serves the needs of:
- Assortment planners
- Buyers and Allocators
- VP-Merchandising
- Planning and finance analysts
Merchandise Planning delivers processes and functionalities that cover the following areas:
- Grading and Clustering – Helps you manage merchandise planning for a large number of stores, while giving you the ability to manage customised, store-specific merchandise mix.
- Master Planning – Helps you define and drive growth and profitability objectives across the dimensions of corporate regions (stores), channels, and departments/categories.
- Merchandise Planning – Helps you develop a financial plan, with critical measures and KPIs like sell-through, markdowns, and shrinkage, to arrive at the buy, sale and margin-$-off for the various departments of the merchandise.
- Grade Width Planning – Helps you drive store level profitability through an appropriate and profitable merchandise mix aimed at improving per-square-area profitability.
- Assortment Planning – You can plan a variety of assortment mixes and create balanced range plans, with unique market-based, customer-based, fashion-based, and price-based assortments.
- Allocation – Helps manage pre-distributed allocation, to execute store level allocation plans that are accurate, while ensuring the right product is in the right place at the right time in the right quantity, and in the right size.
- OTB Management – Helps you align to the current trading environment and maximise the opportunity and minimise over-stocks.
