Merchandising Center
Centralised data and planogram management will enhance accuracy and efficiency for retailers, manufacturers, and wholesalers alike.
Planogram Challenges
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When dealing with many planograms, you’re facing a number of challenges:
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Version control. Which planograms are the active ones? What is the status of updates?
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Data integrity. Is the product data consistent & up-to-date in all planograms?
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Efficiency. How can I implement assortment changes quickly, without taking too much time?
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Link planograms to stores and/or floorplans.
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Increase efficiencies in distribution of your planograms.
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Integrate closely with other IT-systems and processes to exchange data.
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Key Features
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Merchandising Center enables planograms and store plans to be stored in a central database repository.
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This provides a powerful set of capabilities to manage and maintain these planograms and floorplans in a much more efficient way.
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Additionally, with all that data being stored in a central and structured way, a wealth of information is available for analysis and reporting.
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Click on the link below to see all the key features available in Merchandising Center.
Planogram Life-cycle and Workflow
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At the heart of the system, we’ve implemented the concept of a planogram life-cycle. Once a planogram has gone “live”, i.e. it has been released for implementation into stores, it is impossible to make accidental changes to it.
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When initiating a review, and adding or removing products from the assortment, the system automatically creates copies of the original planograms, securing the live/active ones.
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Only after consciously moving a new planogram proposal through various “sign-off” stages, can it become the new active plan. This then moves the previous one into the archive, offering a simple, yet clear workflow that protects the integrity of your planogram.
Centralised database
Life-Cycle & Workflow
Efficient Maintenance
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Retail Merchandising Center offers various powerful capabilities to make the maintenance of planograms a much more efficient, and less time-consuming task:
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Change “generic” product data such as UPC, name, supplier, physical dimensions, … only once, and all planograms in which the product is listed, are updated at once.
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List one or more (new) products in a series of planograms with just a few clicks. Optionally place them on a temporary shelf, so that you (or someone else) can easily drag and drop them into the correct location.
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Quickly delist products, or mark them for easy identification during planogram updates.
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Simply execute a “find & replace” when you have one of those many “in and out” assortment updates.
Efficiently manage product assortments across all planograms and stores through the database.
Identify and take action at speed
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Our database has been crafted with a focus on simplicity, enabling you to swiftly and efficiently pinpoint both opportunities and risks.
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Our Microsoft SQL Database, which meets industry standards, allows for seamless connectivity to internal systems, requiring only the essential store-level KPI data by product and category.
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This alleviates the burden on internal IT teams and prevents the need for expensive, labor-intensive data projects that may take months to complete.
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For Retailers you can swiftly analyse and compare performance across all stores at both the product category level, using planogram fixtures, and at the broader category or department level, utilising the store floor plan.
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This enables you to deliver;
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Valuable insights to stakeholders throughout the organization, thereby enhancing and accelerating the decision-making process.
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It facilitates timely implementation of changes.
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Fosters greater accountability across various stores.
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Provides a comprehensive overview of product, category, and space performance.
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For Manufacturers you can swiftly analyse and compare performance across trade channels, retailers or regions at product category level, using planogram fixtures.
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This will depend what data is available and that can be added to the database
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Retail Merchandising Center is a plug and play solution with our applications (Enterprise + Level)​
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Clients can choose to integrate both Retail Shelf Planner and Retail Floor Planner solutions to the database​
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Clients, such as Manufacturing clients can use the database with Retail Shelf Planner
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Some Retail clients may only wish to plan at the floor level, so only Retail Floor Planner is connected
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Measure the results
Planogram
Floor Plan
By Product, Category & Fixture Space by store
By Week, Month, Year, YTD or compare user selected periods
By Category, Sub-Cat, Dept & Fixture Space by store
By Week, Month, Year, YTD or compare user selected periods
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Analyse each planogram or floor plan on sales, profit, movement, gross return on inventory space, and more.
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Begin with a straightforward approach and leverage the database's scalability to incorporate additional key performance indicators (KPIs) as needed over time.
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For Floor Plan analysis, businesses can incorporate store budgets, targets, or other performance metrics to evaluate their actual results. This approach allows for a comprehensive comparison between planned objectives and real-world outcomes, facilitating informed decision-making and strategic adjustments.
