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This merchandise financial planning module covers two key aspects of fashion retail merchandising.
Firstly, the implementation of commodity planning with regards to the top-down financial targets set within the strategic business planning process, creating an optimal bottom-up planning approach at assortment level which is aligned with growth and margin targets.
Secondly, scenario-based stock optimization – including flow of goods and invoicing finely tuned to cash flow management.
The module provides both pre-season as well as in-season planning, including markdowns, receipts, inventory, and open-to-buy metrics.
The special forecast calculation enables the efficient organization of volatile customer demands across all channels.
The solution has a direct impact on activity and contributes to the improvement of margins.
Merchandise Financial Planning consists of four relevant, fully integrated parts that get you up and running quickly:
A) Top-Down Planning
B) Bottom-Up Planning
C) In Season OTB
D) Analysis
Top Down Planning - configure, simulate and plan sales quantity, avg. selling price, net sales, markdown, gross margin and purchase budget in % or abs. value or based on previous year deviation flexibly on high product aggregation levels (e.g. Purchase Groups, Target Groups, Month). Save and restore Scenarios as required.
Bottom Up Planning - configure, simulate and plan sales quantity, avg. selling price, net sales, markdown, gross margin and purchase budget in % or abs. value or based on previous year deviation flexibly on more detailed product hierarchies (e.g. Product Group, Brands, Season and month). Initialization based on top down target
InSeason Open-To-Buy Planning - adjust and simulate plan of upcoming months by changing parameters which will affect the open-to-buy target or change your Inventory (EOP). Plan vs. Act & FC deviations are visible immediately including colour coding, comments and graphical analysis.
InSeason Open-To-Buy Planning - Long lists of planning KPIs can be reduced to user individual needs based on KPI type (Plan, Act. & FC, OTB), the KPI topic itself of individually definable filters.
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