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SAS® Integrated Merchandise Planning

SAS Integrated Merchandise Planning is the most comprehensive retail planning suite to help retailers achieve the best results. It delivers everything you need to create accurate plans that optimize every item across all stores and channels. SAS retail solutions provide optimization, planning and analytics across the enterprise and to the local store level and can reconcile plans top-down, bottom-up and middle-out to help retailers plan, execute, and ensure that financial plans and merchandise plans work hand-in-hand.

Benefits

  • Increase gross margin dollars.
  • Drive tailored local-market assortments.
  • Reduce markdowns.
  • Optimize use of store space.
  • Get the right products to the right stores at the right times.

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Features

  • Merchandise financial planning
  • Merchandise in-season management
  • Merchandise assortment planning
  • Space management
  • Allocation
  • Demand forecasting
  • Intelligent clustering

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" Our financial results are being impacted by SAS, because SAS allows us to make decisions more quickly and at a much lower level of detail."

—Scott Zucker

Vice President of Merchandise Operations

Family Dollar

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How SAS® Is Different

As part of a comprehensive suite of retail intelligence solutions, SAS Integrated Merchandise Planning delivers everything you need to create accurate plans that optimize every item across all stores and channels. Only SAS:

  • Has more than 30 years of providing retailers with advanced analytics that drive better results.
  • Provides one common retail workflow and database for all planning functions – financial planning, assortment planning, etc.
  • Infuses statistically sound demand forecasts to serve as the necessary analytic validation for merchandise and key item planning.
  • Optimizes merchandise assortments, plans and recommendations throughout the entire merchandise life cycle.
  • Optimizes the use of space, at a macro and micro level, and automates development of tailored planograms to create executable space plans.

Benefits

  • Increase gross margin dollars. SAS allows you to execute your strategic goals.
  • Drive tailored local-market assortments. The SAS solution infuses unique analytics to optimize assortments and clustering of assortments and drive increased inventory productivity.
  • Reduce markdowns. Managing products throughout the planning life cycle – across organizational silos – will help you make better decisions earlier and reduce costly markdowns.
  • Optimize use of store space. SAS' integrated merchandise planning suite includes full integration between assortments and space.
  • Get the right products to the right stores at the right times. The SAS solution helps you increase customer satisfaction through better assortments, optimal allocations and execution in stores.

Features

Merchandise financial planning
  • Set your merchandise financial goals based on past, present and future demand.
Merchandise in-season management
  • Facilitate control of merchandise spending through open-to-buy, and quickly respond to emerging business trends to maximize inventory investments and reduce liabilities.
Merchandise assortment planning
  • Build the ideal breadth and depth of product to match your customers' needs and support your financial goals.
Space management
  • We provide SAS Space Planning and SAS Space Optimization to enable retailers to create optimal store and fixture space allocations based on the analysis of product placement, usage and performance.
Allocation
  • You can analyze store-specific needs and improve inventory management with allocation and replenishment of basic, fashion and promotional merchandise.
Demand forecasting
  • Accurately anticipate and shape future customer demand for all types of products, ranging from fast-moving consumer goods to fashion apparel.
Intelligent clustering
  • Ensure your customers are offered the right product range with tailored local-market assortments built for ideal store clusters derived from actual customer demand.

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Built-in performance analysis

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Workflow and dynamic level plans

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System Requirements

Client environment
  • Microsoft Windows (x86-32): Windows XP Professional, Windows Server 2003 family, Windows Server 2008 family, Windows Vista*, Windows 7**
  • Microsoft Windows(x64): Windows XP Professional for x64, Windows Server 2003 for x64, Windows Server 2008 for x64, Windows Vista* for x64, Windows 7** for x64
Server environment
  • AIX: 5.3 and 6.1 on POWER architectures
  • Microsoft Windows on x64 (EM64T/AMD64): Windows XP Professional for x64, Windows Server 2003 for x64, Windows Server 2008 for x64, Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64, Windows Vista* for x64, Windows 7** for x64
  • Solaris on SPARC: Version 9, 10
  • Solaris on x64: Version 10
Supported Web browsers
  • Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP Pro
  • Internet Explorer 7 on Windows XP Pro, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista*
  • Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP Professional, Windows Vista* and Windows 7**
Web tier
  • BEA WebLogic 9.2 and 10.0 on: AIX, HP-UX Itanium, Solaris (SPARC and x64), Windows 2003 Server, Windows Server 2008
  • BEA WebLogic 10gr3 on: AIX, Solaris (SPARC), Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008
  • IBM WebSphere 6.1 and 7 on: AIX, Solaris (SPARC and x64) Windows 2003 Server, Windows Server 2008

*  NOTE: Windows Vista supported editions are: Enterprise, Business and Ultimate.
** NOTE: Windows 7 supported editions are: Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate.

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