Merchandise Planning with SAS^® Merchandise Intelligence

Merchants can no longer base critical merchandising decisions on intuition or historical reports and expect the desired results.   In the Spotlight 21st-Century Retail Merchandising and Customer Management Tune in to this on-demand Webcast to learn how top retailers use SAS Merchandise Intelligence to anticipate trends and drive results. Instead, retailers need a way to maximize the profitability of the merchandising process while exceeding customer expectations – a system that provides more valuable information about demand, customer behavior, category performance, optimal allocations and more. Most of all, this information needs to be available from one source, so it can be accessed and used quickly to make more profitable merchandising decisions. Right merchandise. Right place. Right price. Only SAS Merchandise Intelligence provides real intelligence at every step of the merchandising life cycle. With this collection of software and services, you can maximize the profitability of the merchandising process while improving customer loyalty and satisfaction levels. Retailers get reporting, planning, forecasting and optimization at critical points through the planning process, which lead to faster and better decisions. SAS Merchandise Intelligence includes: SAS Integrated Merchandise Planning, which provides complete planning capabilities for the merchandising process, including performance analysis, financial planning, assortment planning, space planning, allocation and more. SAS Size Optimization, which uses powerful analytics to transform historical sales data into valuable size-demand intelligence. The solution accurately predicts future sales and inventory needs by size, and determines case-pack supply to optimally meet this demand. SAS Revenue Optimization Suite, the only software suite available today that helps retailers manage revenue and margin through the entire merchandise life cycle. This suite includes three integrated components: SAS Regular Price Optimization – Establish and maintain optimal everyday prices based on costs, regional demand patterns and competitive price information. SAS Promotion Optimization – Maximize margin and revenue through improved promotion planning powered by advanced demand modeling and optimization. SAS Markdown Optimization – Determine which items should be marked down, by how much, when and in which markets or stores. SAS Demand Forecasting for Retail, which uses SAS' unique high-performance forecasting engine to automatically diagnose, model, execute and reconcile forecasts across multiple merchandise levels and locations. Because it includes our leading forecasting capabilities and advanced analytics, SAS Merchandise Intelligence helps you drive profits by optimizing the merchandising process from planning through inventory fulfillment. All these solutions leverage the power of SAS®9, the business intelligence platform underlying SAS retail solutions. SAS®9 provides an integrated, open and extensible foundation for creating and delivering accurate, in-depth retail intelligence.

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