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celver core: Assortment Planning

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Optimize your assortment planning with agility and precision

Plan the right selection of items that best reflects the dynamic preferences of your customers. See at a glance how items, lines, and styles are performing and what impact this has on your business.

celver core Assortment Planning empowers fashion and retail organizations to plan and manage product assortments with market‑driven speed and analytical depth. Built on Board’s integrated planning platform, this module gives planners a real‑time view into article performance, line performance, and style contributions — enabling smarter decisions that align product mixes with customer demand and business goals.

Why celver for Assortment Planning?

Turn complexity into competitive advantage.

Fashion and retail companies face rapidly changing customer preferences, expanding product ranges, and the need to balance global assortment strategies with local execution. celver’s module for assortment planning tackles these challenges by linking financial targets with top‑down and bottom‑up planning, ensuring that assortment decisions are always aligned with merchandise and financial plans. Flexible frameworks support diverse planning processes — whether sequential or parallel — and allow regional assortment adaptations from a global product universe.

Benefits

Align assortment strategy with merchandise and financial planning goals
Plan assortments that reflect dynamic customer preferences
Empower planners with real‑time views on articles, lines, and styles
Enable regional or global assortment definitions tailored to market needs
Support seamless integration with upstream PLM and source systems
Increase agility and reduce manual spreadsheet processes

Features

Conceptual Assortment Plan (CAP) for translating financial goals into article targets
Detailed article planning (Line Plan) with bottom up model support
Flexible planning workflows that adapt to your process preferences
Visual analytics including treemaps, portfolio views, and performance metrics
Store clustering logic to support region specific assortment decisions
Integration with product attributes, pricing, and margin targets

What is included?

The celver Module Assortment Planning includes a complete assortment planning application built on Board’s unified enterprise planning platform. It combines configurable planning tables, advanced analytics, and integration capabilities to support both strategic and detailed assortment decisions. The solution enables planners to define collection frameworks, break them down into actionable article plans, and manage assortments across markets and clusters — all while maintaining live comparison with merchandise plan targets.