The Setting

Multi-Channel Demand Planning

Getting the right products, to the right place, in the right quantity, at the right time has never been so critical. One false assessment of a shift in demand can have an immediate and devastating effect on profit margins. Intelligent planning protects these margins, allowing you to analyse, forecast, co-ordinate and replenish with accuracy, speed and confidence. It all comes down to the data – how you organise it, interrogate it, share it and use it. It needs to be granular in its detail, unquestionable in its accuracy and flexible in its structure. There is no compromise, so you need a solution that can handle it.

Solution

Quantiv’s Planner Solution

Planner is a solution that enables you to handle mass volumes of transaction data – organising it, mining it, and projecting customer demand into the future to ensure you have the right product, in the right place, at the right time and in the right quantity.

The planning platform brings together past and current merchandising data into one place, with changing views of detail, giving the planner all the information they need to make informed decisions.

Read about how Hotel Chocolat have used our solution to improve their planning.

Merchandise Planning

The pace of change requires a flexible planning approach that can cope with the demands of today and tomorrow.

Quantiv Planner, with its class leading flexibility, provides the user with the capability to conduct effective pre-season planning and in-season re-forecasting. It provides users with much needed control to manage and view data to improve both the quality and speed of decision making.

Channel/Store Planning

Given the high cost of sales space, ensuring that each square foot is optimised for the best possible return is critical to profitability.

Quantiv Planner, with its sophisticated space planning capabilities, ensures all sales space is correctly merchandised, appropriately stocked and clearly presented, creating additional opportunities for improved customer engagement.

Assortment Planning

Managing inventory levels and consumer demand signals to ensure optimal localised assortments are delivered.

Quantiv Planner brings automation to the assortment planning process. A unified source of data is used to ensure retailers are better able to manage the complex detail necessary to produce the optimal localised assortment plan.

Markdown Planning

Knowing the optimal timing, frequency and degree of variation is vital to retaining value and maximising revenue.

Quantiv Planner has the capability to enable proactive markdown strategies to be quickly and effectively implemented. It enables you to analyse trends, manage product life cycles and fulfil customer expectations.