Merchandising Planning and Assortment Planning
From basic Open-to-Buy (OTB) to sophisticating planning, WinRetail enterprise management system includes all aspects. Our OTB module included in the base WinRetail system, allows you to plan in units, costs or retail dollars. You can plan inventory values, sales and markdowns to maximize cash flow and 'just in time' inventory.
Our Advanced Planning module allows you to plan up to nine different data elements, including Receiving’s, Markups, Gross Margin, Annual Plan and Working Plan to name a few. All this with Automatic Top Down and Bottom Up capability. Both modules are fully integrated with our Purchasing Module to give you real time visibility into your Open-to-Buy.
Our Assortment Planner gives you a broad stroke of your inventory assortment and lets you drill down with a microscope into your stock balances. The information provided tells you what customers are paying for different types of merchandise, what price points you have on the floor and what new price points are arriving by over 20 different KPIs.
With these powerful solutions you can optimize your merchandise and ROI by:
- Planning in Units, Cost or Retail
- Planning in Gross Margin Percentages
- Top Down and Bottom Up Planning
- Base Plan on Last Year Numbers
- Create a Locked Annual Plan and Continue to Modify the Working Plan
- Take your Plan and Export To Excel
- Have a Rolling Plan Month after Month
- Integrated to Reports to Compare Plan to Actual
- Unit Plan For Key Items
- Balance Supply and Demand Based on Price Points
- Plan nine different elements by 20 different merchandise attributes
WinRetail planning will make a big difference in both your bottom line and cash flow. Retailers prefer JDS Solutions because we're unique. We're different in the way we approach solutions to the challenges retailers face, and how we develop software and services.