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Our Partners

 

ITIM Consulting

Merchandising and Supply Chain optimisation.
IMPACT Planner implementation partners

Kurt Salmon Associates

Merchandising and Supply Chain optimisation

Martec International

Merchandising and Supply Chain optimisation

 

 

Merchandise Planning Systems

 

Applix TM1 - (TPF IMPACT PLANNER)

Cost effective, flexible, spreadsheet or web front-ended, multi-dimensional database. Can be used for Merchandise and Range Planning, Store Grading etc.

Plans can be linked to other functional areas like finance or logistics

IMPACT Planner is a pre-configured best-practice model for planning WSSI, margin modelling etc. - Value, Cost & Units

Further extensions are availabe for Channel Planning, Store Grading, Range & Assortment Planning, Finacial Budgeting (P&L, Cashflow etc), Logistics Planning, Activity Based Costing and more.

Torex

Merchandise & Range Planning software. Was called Compass. Now owned by Alphameric Retail (who are now owned by Torex (since Dec 04) ,and rebranded. What’s it called now then? Hmmm.

I2 Merchandise Planner (AKA Makoro / Planit)

Originated by South African company Multime, bought by IBM. Now part of the I2 behemoth. Oracle based planner. The name "Makoro" means a type of canoe!

JDA Arthur Ltd

Oracle based Merchandise and Range planner, originally developed by Comshare, now owned by JDA.

NSB Connected Retailer Planner

Based on Canadian company STS Open Planning. Now owned by BT Expedite

SAS MarketMax

US company - some UK clients. Mostly in food.

ANT USA, Inc (Buyers Toolbox).

Buyers Toolbox : US based cheap & cheerful pre-canned planner.

Visual Retailing Ltd ( was FashionYield)

Graphical range building tool.

Evant

American based 4 dimensional planning tool

SAP

MP for ERP clients

Galleria

Grading, assortment planning and planogramming

Prologic

CIMS planning integrates all channel planning into a single coherent scheme, so it improves co-operation between retail, wholesale, mail order and e-commerce operations

 

 

Merchandising Systems

 

AIM Commercial Systems Ltd.

 

Torex

 

Essentus (Formerly Richter)

 

Futura

 

JDA International Ltd.

 

KPOS Computer Systems

 

Mach 4 Software Ltd.

 

Medoc Computers Ltd.

 

Megabyte Ltd.

 

NSB Retail Systems Ltd.

 

Prologic

 

Retek

 

Riva Systems Ltd.

 

Top to Toe

 

 

 

Publications

 

Retail Week

UK Industry Newspaper, now with subscription based news website

Retail Technology

What is says on the box

Retail Automation

The organ of RMDP

 

 

Other Web Sites

 

The Retail Bulletin.com

Fantastic free resource for UK retail news - Join it NOW!

Fashionunited.co.uk

Excellent site with news and views for the fashion industry

Retail-Merchandiser.com

US Site dedicated to retail merchandising

Id Risk

Risk management consultants

Martec International

Useful information & articles on retail

RSA

Home of Terry Donofrio and his friendly Friday forums on Merchandise Planning.

Retail Systems Alert

Subscription based articles on implementations, editorials, product updates

Retail.com

Web portal with articles on Merchandise Planning

The University of Stirling

Dept. of Retail Studies

Tentran.com

Great site for inventory management information

Envision Retail

Store Operations Consultancy and more.

 

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

If you want to make an IMPACT click below

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