Merchandise Assortment Plan - Open to Buy
Advanced Merchandise Plan Module creates a top-down/bottom-up framework for aligning merchandising strategy and plans, aligning plans and execution, and improving goals and plans over time.
The solution guides you through industry-standard planning processes in an efficient, manner while providing in-season measures and executions comparing to plan, alerting the appropriate individuals as actual results occur and highlighting the opportunities and priorities for improving results.
Rolling 12 months, user-selectable summary and detail provide the ultimate merchandise planning views.
Summary
Merchandise Planning Module provides both pre-season and
in-season planning with key merchandise indicators that include
sales, markdowns, receipts, inventory, gross margin, and
open-to-buy. It can be used by retailers utilizing cost,
retail or unit planning methods and can be used to plan for
multiple retail segments.
Provide a process for adjusting
assortment plans in-season to react to the most current data.
Seamlessly Integrated with Cybex Merchandising System, Cybex
Data Warehouse, and Cybex Reporting System to ensure all areas
of the enterprise rely on the same merchandise plan facilitating
purchasing control and optimization..
Benefits
Manage up to 12 seasons per year by utilizing NRF or retail
enterprise specific weekly retail calendar.
Utilize category management
and
user-defined hierarchical merchandise classification to
achieve the ideal product mix.
Base
plans on sales history
or sales plan to enable planning horizons in excess of 12 months.
Allocate products to individual stores and manage multiple
responsibility centers
to ensure the right quantity of product is in the right location
at the right time
designed
to
maximize sales, profits, and customer satisfaction.
Provide a process for adjusting
assortment
plans in-season to react to the most current data.
View sales history, weekly sales, markdowns, receipts, inventory, gross margin, and open-to-buy to support better, more accurate planning.
Features
Use location and merchandise assortment filters to view any
classification, summary level, and time segment in a
user-friendly intuitive graphical interface.
User security access and complete real-time integration with
Cybex Merchandising module ensure purchases don't exceed plan
budget.
Flexible report selections and templates facilitate customizable
user reports based on a single store, day and class or an entire
enterprise season summary.
Create new plan based on Cybex Data Warehouse actual, plan or
percent ratio adjustments in minutes.
Support for both 6 month and rolling 12 month integrated plan
workbench.
Segment reporting designed for location, category, merchandiser and buyer performance analysis and identification of possible markdowns and returns.