How SAS Delivers Better Merchandise Planning & Price Optimization
Our innovative omnichannel analytic capabilities unify data, customer demand and insights to help you drive profitability, manage inventory and stay competitive.
Customer-centric assortment planning and optimization
- Predict customer demand by channel and forecast the impact on future sales.
- Use predictive and prescriptive analytics and advanced clustering to understand a customer's path to purchase.
- Identify opportunities to improve performance and increase profitability.
- Determine the best assortment mix based on available shelf space and financial objectives.
- Optimize merchandising decisions to improve the customer experience.
Merchandise location planning
- Use trade area analysis to determine local in-store and online merchandising, inventory and pricing decisions.
- Automate processes to predict sales by location, create relevant assortments, optimize inventory, make pricing decisions that resonate with customers, and support e-commerce fulfillment initiatives.
Size/pack optimization
- Increase margin potential by understanding historical sales and true size demand.
- Forecast quantities down to store/size level.
- Recommend pack configurations to meet supply chain constraints and distribution costs.
Price optimization
- Gain incremental margin by optimizing profitable price strategies over product life cycles.
- Use analytics to understand competitor pricing, shape demand and meet financial goals.
Related Products & Solutions
- SAS® Data ManagementEnsure better, more reliable data integrated from any source.
- SAS® Enterprise Miner™Streamline the data mining process to create highly accurate predictive and descriptive models based on large volumes of data.
- SAS® Intelligent Planning SuiteAccurately forecast shopper and consumer demand by creating seamless merchandise and demand plans.
- SAS® Revenue Optimization SuiteOptimize life cycle pricing strategies and corporate profitability with a comprehensive view of consumer demand.
- SAS® Size Optimization: SAS® Size Profiling and SAS® Pack OptimizationImprove profitability by identifying and supplying the right sizes to the right stores at the right time.
- SAS® Visual AnalyticsExplore de manera visual todos los datos, descubra nuevos patrones y publique reportes en la Web y en dispositivos móviles.
- SAS® Visual Data Mining and Machine LearningSolve your most complex problems faster with a single, integrated in-memory environment.
- SAS® Visual InvestigatorAddress a wide variety of intelligence analysis and investigation management needs with speed and precision.
- SAS® Visual StatisticsCreate and modify predictive models faster than ever using a visual interface and in-memory processing.