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celver core: Merchandise Financial Planning

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Align merchandise strategy with financial performance

Align your day-to-day decisions with corporate objectives and benefit from detailed merchandise planning. With the preconfigured merchandise solution, you can plan inventory and goods receipt targets easily and reliably.

celver core Merchandise Financial Planning (MFP) enables fashion and retail teams to plan, forecast, and optimize merchandise with financial precision. Built on Board’s unified planning platform, this solution integrates top-down financial objectives with bottom-up merchandise decisions — empowering teams to make data-driven trade-offs between inventory levels, sales performance, and margin goals.

Why celver for Merchandise Financial Planning?

Turn planning complexity into strategic advantage.

In today’s fast-moving fashion market, volatility in customer demand, seasonal shifts, and multi-channel complexity make accurate merchandise planning essential — but traditional manual processes and siloed tools often fall short. celver core: Merchandise Financial Planning tackles these challenges by combining strategic financial targets, operational merchandise details, and scenario-based planning into one consistent environment, drastically boosting planning quality and agility.

Benefits

Connect financial goals with inventory and assortment decisions
Improve forecast accuracy across Pre-Season and In-Season planning
Reduce manual effort and reliance on disconnected spreadsheets
Provide real-time analysis and scenario modeling
Harmonize merchandising with cash-flow and margin targets
Enable transparent workflows and traceable planning processes

Features

Top-Down Planning Integration: Start with strategic financial targets and automatically cascade them into merchandise planning dimensions.
Bottom-Up Planning Support: Refine detailed plans at product group, brand, season, and channel levels, aligned with top-down objectives.
Scenario Simulation & Versioning: Save different planning variants, compare impacts, and evaluate strategic alternatives.
Pre-Season and In-Season Open-to-Buy: Dynamically adjust inventory targets based on actual performance and planned receipts.
Advanced Analytics & Dashboards: Visualize sales contributions, markdown trends, stock positions, and KPI heatmaps for fast insight.
Workflow & Collaboration Tools: Structured approvals, comments, and attachments ensure clarity and accountability across teams.

What is included?

The Merchandise Financial Planning module delivers a ready-to-use planning application with best-practice templates designed for fashion retail. It supports driver-based top-down planning, detailed bottom-up merchandise budgeting, and flexible scenario modeling. Pre-built logic for inventory, receipts, markdowns, and margins ensures faster implementation and immediate value creation.