Enabling Customer Driven Planning

With extended product lines across multiple categories and shortened lifecycles, planning can be hugely complex. The objective is to maximise sales whilst ensuring maximum availability whilst avoiding redundant stocks at end of season or line.

Combine these challenges with multiple channels and coordinating operational plans efficiently and it becomes critical to ensure that customer service remains high, while inventory levels are optimised.

Retailers that use a deeper insight into consumer demand to make their planning processes more robust will:

• Stay ahead of consumer shopping habits
• Increase extended product choices
• Generate long term, highly competitive strategies
• Optimised and efficient inventory
• Have a more responsive supply chain

Leading Retailers such as Vision Express use Exceedra to deliver real time demand forecast information to achieve better availability, reduced inventory, increased sales and reduced lead times.

• Commercial Insight and Planning
• Gain deeper and more real-time insight into sales information to enable faster responses to demand fluctuations. Saves days of time in data analysis and planning and leads to optimal sales performance. Supporting Budgeting, Merchandise Planning and Mark down management.
• Supply Chain Insights and Planning
• Provides a single view of forward demand forecasts and supply requirements. Improves speed of corrective actions, as well as improved planning capabilities.
• Category Insight and Planning
• Deeper insight into how categories are performing against a range of criteria and across a range of data sources. Enables improved view of buying patterns and fluctuations in demand.