Enterprise Planning for retail

Board’s retail planning solutions replicate a retailer’s full operating model – customer, inventory, revenue, and SG&A – within one connected platform. They provide governance and control at the strategic and financial level while maximising agility across merchandising and supply-chain planning. With a single version of truth, teams collaborate on shared targets, adapt faster to change, and turn every decision – from strategy to shelf – into measurable, confident performance.

Board enables retailers to plan and trade with precision across stores, regions, and channels. Continuous assortment sensing and AI-driven clustering adapt plans in real time to customer behaviour and market shifts. By connecting customer signals with financial and merchandising data, Board allows teams to localize assortments, optimise depth and breadth, and protect margin – ensuring every product decision aligns to true demand and drives growth.

AI in Board is embedded throughout every planning layer – from forecasting to allocation to scenario modelling. Machine-learning engines analyse internal and external signals to predict demand, pricing, and stock risk. Planners can test scenarios instantly and act on explainable insights. This blend of automation and visibility improves forecast accuracy by up to 15 %, accelerates in-season response, and enables confident, data-driven decisions that balance creativity and profit.

Board connects seamlessly with ERP, PLM, POS, CRM, and data-lake systems through open APIs and pre-built connectors, creating a single version of truth without heavy IT lift. This interoperability preserves existing investments while enabling a unified data model. Retailers gain collaboration across finance, merchandising, and supply chain, faster deployments, and scalable architecture – modernising at their own pace while evolving a connected, governed planning ecosystem.

Board combines enterprise-grade configurability with intuitive design. Retailers can tailor models, workflows, and views to fit existing processes – without coding or third-party integrators. A modern, Excel-like interface speeds adoption for business users while ensuring governance for IT. The result is flexibility without complexity: planners work faster, teams collaborate easily, and the platform evolves with the business to support continuous planning and innovation.

Board delivers impact within months: up to 30 % markdown reduction, 8-12 % lower inventory holding costs, and 10-15 % improvement in forecast accuracy. Unified visibility enables better open-to-buy control, higher full-price sell-through, and faster in-season re-planning. By connecting strategic, financial, and operational plans, Board gives retailers confidence in every decision – turning alignment and agility into measurable margin, efficiency, and growth.