SAS^® Merchandise Assortment Planning

Assortment planning is the process of determining which items should be planned and made available where and in what quantities.

With SAS^® Merchandise Assortment Planning, you ensure that your product mix is synchronized with your financial objectives through a centralized and integrated single database. Because the information is integrated with SAS® Intelligent Clustering for Retail, you’ll build the ideal breadth and depth of product based on your customers’ real interests, location, demographics and buying trends – not rough estimations. You can then flow your strategy across a timeline to make certain that inventory is mapped to your plan, reducing costs and maximizing revenue.

With SAS Merchandise Financial Planning, SAS^® Space Planning and SAS^® Merchandise Allocation, your assortments can be back checked against financial goals and used to develop space and inventory plans. With properly tuned plans you’ll also facilitate the proper flow of goods. Inventory will be efficiently managed, and will free up time and resources moving and storing unsold goods.

Benefits:

• Analyze assortments to identify gaps and opportunities
• Enhance plans to maximize effects of special promotions and clearance sales
• Plan optimal distributions of goods for various seasons and promotions

Results:

• Improve the merchandise mix for your store, online and catalog channels
• Project millions of dollars in inventory reductions from better assortment plans
• Increase turns through optimal product mix