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celver core: Retail Sales Planning

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Retail Sales Planning: From high-level drivers to detailed results.

Stay ahead of the next season: Design the “big picture” of your comprehensive sales and financial planning using AI-powered, scenario- and driver-based approaches.

celver core Retail Sales Planning unites strategic business planning with detailed financial planning in a single solution powered by Board. It enables long-term, high-level planning across channels, markets, and product lines — leveraging external market data to assess trends and potential — while also supporting detailed, store-level revenue, margin, and P&L planning for the coming fiscal year. AI-powered forecasting, driver- and scenario-based modeling, and multi-level roll-down provide actionable insights and full visibility, ensuring sales plans are firmly grounded in financial reality.

Why celver for Retail Sales Planning?

Connect strategy, drivers, and financial outcomes.

Traditional retail planning often fragments sales, margins, and financial assumptions into disconnected spreadsheets, leading to slow processes and inconsistent results. celver core Retail Sales Planning solves these problems by unifying all planning activities in Board, enabling automated data flows, AI-supported forecasting, and flexible scenario analyses that empower retailers to make faster, more informed decisions.

Benefits

Translate strategic sales and margin targets into detailed operational plans
Use driver-based logic for more intuitive and accurate sales planning
Break down aggregated targets to country, channel, and store level automatically
Analyze performance projections with flexible visualization and dashboards
Support scenario planning and forecasting across planning horizons

Features

Driver-based sales modeling: Build revenue plans from core business drivers like store traffic and conversion metrics.
Multi-level roll-down logic: Automatically propagate changes from strategic levels down to individual stores, ensuring consistency across the planning structure.
Integrated analysis tools: Visualize results in tree maps, portfolio views, and interactive reports that highlight outliers or planning risk.
Forecasting & simulation: Initialize plans using historical data, trend-based algorithms, or manual adjustments; support what-if analyses and alternative scenarios.
Commenting & workflow controls: Add contextual comments, manage approvals, and enforce planning governance through integrated workflow steps.
AI-supported forecasting: Improve forecast accuracy and speed through AI-driven demand prediction.

What is included?

The solution includes a preconfigured retail sales planning module based on celver’s proven best practices within Board’s planning platform. It seamlessly combines strategic and detailed sales planning with full financial integration, enabling planners to move from a high-level view of projected revenue and margins to detailed plans at store and product-group level using intuitive, driver-based logic. Centralized planning capabilities support retail sales performance management, seasonal adjustments, and assortment simulations, all powered by automated data integration and AI-driven forecasting. The ready-to-use solution enables fast implementation and flexible customization to support evolving planning requirements and retail strategies.