Merchandise Planning. Range Planning, Assortment Planning, Open to Buy, Financial Budgeting , GMROI Improvement

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Merchandise Planning Design and Implementation Services

Once you have decided that you need to improve your planning process, you may wish to consider expert input to the process.

Planning System Process Definition & Selection

We can help you to define the planning processes that you require and create and manage Invitations to Tender

Implementations of custom solutions

We can create solutions tailored to your requirements using industry standard software like Excel and the Applix TM1 multi-dimensional database (used by more than 50% of the USA Fortune 100 companies). These solutions can be surprisingly cost effective and can easily bridge the gap between finance and merchandise departments in ways that traditional merchandise planning systems can not.

Implementation of 3rd Party Systems

We can code and implement your requirements using a variety of 3rd party systems.

For example Peacock's the Cardiff-based value retailer retained The Planning Factory for the implementation of the Makoro system. The Planning Factory helped to create the conceptual design and then translated this into a successfully implemented system.

Merchandise Planning with IMPACT

Integrated
Merchandise
Planning
Analysis and
Control
Toolkit

Did you know that you can get a fully integrated category WSSI planning system for less than the cost of a month’s markdown?

TPF’s IMPACT planner is based on the Palo multi-dimensional database

It allows Sales, Margin, Markdown, Stock and Open to Buy planning and reforecasting at Retail, Cost and in Units

It has embedded Retail Industry Best Practice logic based on our worldwide experience

It allows top down, bottom up and middle out planning.

Data imports and consolidations take seconds allowing your staff to be more productive right away

It can scale from 1 to 100 users

It can be linked seamlessly to Excel Spreadsheets

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