Key Capabilities of JDA Assortment Planning by ArthurR (Assortment Planning?):
- Planning at top down, bottom up and multiple levels of the retail hierarchy
- User-defined planning levels and store attributes
- Sort and filter for assortment subset planning
- Review of history and ongoing actuals
- Assortment review before committing to buys
- Perform assortment analysis across every product and store characteristic
Assortment Planning enables you to meet your customers’ needs while accomplishing your company’s multi-channel merchandise objectives. By translating high level financial plans into the lowest level of local detail, Assortment Planning enables you to create effective neighborhood assortments that deliver positive ROI. The bottom line? Reduced unplanned markdowns, properly utilized floor space, fewer store transfers, and increased turns throughout the chain. And, best of all, your customers won’t leave your stores empty-handed.
Based on proven best practice methodology that includes profiles as well as store and product attributes, Assortment Planning enables your buyers and planners to pinpoint precise local product presentations. By taking into account store “personalities”, space and seasonality as well as characteristics that matter to your customers like price point, brand, theme and color, Assortment Planning enables your buyers to view merchandise through your customers’ eyes to develop the right product mix. And planners take note! Assortment Planning enables you to monitor assortments and ensure they balance to your organization’s budgeted unit and value targets. For any store or store group, for any level of your business, you can build the bold power assortments to stay on plan while keeping your customers coming back for more.
