Merchandise Planning

Do you need to improve the utilisation of your stock and make sure it’s in the right place at the right time?  How often are your key lines out of stock? Can you predict demand or are you basing sales forecasts on historical sales data?  How do you manage OTB and predict cash requirements for purchases?

Retail Answers can help you maximise the return on your investment in stock by integrating systems or designing and developing new systems to ensure that you have all the information you need at your fingertips for the correct allocation and purchasing decisions. Whether you are looking to select a top tier merchandise planning system or simply automate some spreadsheets Retail Answers has the business knowledge and technology skills.

• Understand your current systems and long term merchandising requirements quickly and agree a cost effective IT plan.
• Where new systems are necessary, manage a structured selection process to identify the right solution for you at the right price.
• Develop bespoke applications for WSSI, line planning and in-season line forecasting to allow you to improve your control processes.
• Design & develop any interfaces required to eliminate any re-keying that you currently do.
• Project manage the implementation of new systems and work with your user community to ensure the effective adoption.

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