AN EFFICIENT AND USER-FRIENDLY ASSORTMENT PLANNING SOLUTION FOR PLANNERS AND ANALYSTS

Strengthen and maintain your assortment planning today to profit of its assessment tomorrow:

• Transform your strategic orientations to concrete assortments: assortment renewal, new collection set up, placeholder's definition, events planning…
• Succeed pre-season analysis based on historical and decisional analysis.
• Manage most challenged products' life cycles (example: remain proactive and flexible to a constant evolution of clothes collection)
• Stores specific criterias: Store clustering, a relevant answer to adapt offers to consumer local demands.
• Unlimited number of attributes: define and assign attributes to stores and products to specify your assortments(Typology and Attribute Typology) (marketing, geographical, ethnic, social, space attributes, formats, events, seasons, etc…)

PLANNING AND RETRO PLANNING SOLUTIONS

ibs Assortment provides a systematic overview of your assortments with automated planning and retro planning solutions:

• Cross planning (stores / products): stores can benefit from a real-time calendar insight of assortments and be immediately be noticed and included in the headquarters' recommendations, supporting workflow alerts to a full involvement of all concerned actors.
• Retro planning and milestones: get ready for assortments building process by creating your personalized retro planning: tasks and actors definition, key dates information, automatic and instant notifications (example: be informed of the creation dates of assortments…)

BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF YOUR ASSORTMENT PLAN

ibs Assortment collaborates with ibs Category to perform top-down, bottom up, or mixed process for objectives management.

• Top-down process: define and allocate objectives set on a central department tier and decline them at appropriate levels (assortment plan, category, assortment, item…).
• Bottom-up process: important autonomy left at the stores levels that master their commercial areas, with consolidation of all data at upper levels.
• Mixed process: a full involvement of all levels and knowledge crossing to determine optimal objectives.

“achieve more efficiency in planning your assortments and mastering your management objectives. meet the objective of each distribution format and organization, and for each product category.”