Retail

Intelligent Planning for Retail

Turn consumer spending patterns into profitable merchandise, assortment and replenishment plans, aligning product strategy to customers’ needs.

The screen shows a typical application homepage of a retailer using Board for planning, analytics and budgeting
The screen shows a typical application homepage of a retailer using Board for planning, analytics and budgeting

Analyze

  • Store performance KPIs
  • Stock positions
  • Sales trends

Simulate

  • Financial scenarios
  • What-if analysis
  • Closing

Plan

  • Merchandising & Category
  • Assortment
  • Replenishment

Predict

  • Demand forecasting
  • Predictive analytics
  • Footfall

Supercharge your retail performance

Unify your retail planning

Board enables retailers to transition from static, siloed planning to a unified, cohesive model helping them evaluate complex merchandising, assortment, and inventory decisions before taking action.

Take a consumer-centric approach

Board helps retailers to turn shopping patterns and behaviors into strategic insights to create the optimal assortment strategy, aligning product requirements with customer needs market by market.

Drive efficiency across all channels

Board helps retailers to tackle the omnichannel challenges by aligning merchandise financial planning with supply chain and leverage external demand signals to improve forecasts

Explore solutions designed for your specific needs

Fashion & Luxury

Transform performance across stores, seasons, and SKUs with a one-stop shop for planning and analytics

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Grocery

Drive financial and operational efficiency from supplier to shelf by unifying analytics, simulation, and planning

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Specialty & Hardlines

Maximize productivity throughout the supply chain with an all-in-one platform for reporting, planning, and forecasting

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Exclusive research report: The Beating Heart of Digital Transformation

Retailers are increasingly being compelled to investigate platforms that will strengthen their planning and analytical capabilities across the supply chain, merchandising, assortment, pricing, replenishment, and beyond.

This Retailwire study explores the current adoption level of IBP and analytics in retail and how advanced some retailers have become due to their digital transformation efforts.

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The Beating Heart of Digital Transformation
This Retailwire study explores the current adoption level of IBP and analytics in retail and how advanced some retailers have become due to their digital transformation efforts.

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Integrated Planning from Target Setting to Execution

Our Board-based Integrated Planning Solution gives us a clear competitive edge.
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Centralized Driver-Based Planning

The planning process that used to take 3-4 weeks is now done in a matter of days.

Unified Management Control, Budgeting, and Sales Analysis

Using Board has enabled us to integrate all the information from different sources within a single environment… thereby simplifying our reporting procedures.
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Board: Enabling award-winning operations & supply chain transformation at Burberry

Luxury fashion house Burberry won the 2021 Ventana Research Digital Leadership Award for Operations and Supply Chain using Board’s Intelligent Planning platform.

Board delivered Burberry an integrated platform to support the digitization of merchandising buying processes from global assortment definition to defining an initial buy by region, store, and size.

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