The Children's Place Chooses SAS for Advanced Merchandise Planning
The Children’s Place Retail Stores Inc. has chosen the SAS Integrated Merchandise Planning suite for enhancing its ability to plan merchandise assortments more effectively at its Disney Store brand. The retailer chose SAS for merchandise financial planning, assortment planning, forecasting and in-season management for its more than 300 Disney Stores. The Children’s Place has been a SAS customer since 2005.
“We have a progressive, complex planning process, and we needed a robust, flexible, integrated solution to help us with financial and merchandise planning at Disney Store,” says Richard Flaks, Senior Vice President, Planning, Allocation and IT, The Children’s Place. “We believe SAS retail solutions will help streamline planning, reduce ad hoc reporting needs and decrease time spent gathering data. This will allow our team more time to evaluate optimal business scenarios and make smarter decisions. SAS’ combination of integrated merchandise planning, powerful analytics, usability and scalability creates a platform on which to grow.”
“SAS’ powerful integrated merchandise planning solution helps a sophisticated retailer like The Children’s Place gain a more complete vision into its planning processes enabling improved localization of assortments while synchronizing plan elements such as margins, inventory and pricing strategies,” says Lori Schafer, Vice President of the SAS Global Retail Practice. “We are pleased to apply our years of retail experience to help Disney Store continue to meet the challenges of the rapidly changing retail environment.”
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