Strategic Outcomes
The scenic view has street-level focus with Logility’s merchandise and assortment planning solution. It converts high-level financial goals into chain and store-level plans for both financial and unit profiles to maximize sales potential while minimizing markdowns and out-of-stocks. Consider us your “zoom” feature. Then close the gap between financial planning, store planning and the buyer to accurately identify the optimal merchandise mix.
Provide superior customer experience
Put products in front of your customers more effectively.
Increase profits
Optimize and automate merchandise and assortment planning at the chain and store levels.
Strengthen brands
Minimize markdowns and out-of-stocks and retain brand integrity.
Benefits
Dynamic merchandise planning drives smart assortment plans and allocation strategies. Create demand-based assortments across all retail channels and verticals, adapting strategies in mid-season. Manage reverse logistics and leverage powerful planning variables, or define your own variables, calculations and rules to match your business processes.
Balance plans
Balance plans at all levels, from company goals to SKU, from chain to store, from year to season, month and week.
Identify optimal merchandising mix
Consider multiple factors like item attributes, store cluster, location and capacity, how much product to be carried and the phasing of product into stores.
Gain insight
Gain new insight into Class-level and SKU-level investments to achieve financial plans. Update store financial and unit sales and stock plans.
Compare plan alternatives
Create flexible “what-if” scenarios to re-project chain and store sales using seasonal variables or time constraints, promotions, vendor-specific plans, markdown cadences by category, or varied sourcing options.
Review assortment plans
Review channel, cluster and store specific assortment plans using location analytics that can be actioned into purchase orders and store allocations.