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.
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.
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.
