For supply chain planning and forecasting inventory, look no further than Manhattan Associates' Planning and Forecasting solution suite. Planning and Forecasting enables retailers and wholesalers to accurately forecast demand and improves merchandise, assortment and inventory planning across every sales channel. With access to critical information at all levels of your business through our demand management software, you’ll be able to accurately target inventory investment to customer preferences, and answer yes to these critical questions related to supply and demand management:
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Does your merchandise planning solution support the cross-channel shopper and multi-channel planning?
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Can you perform both top-down and bottom-up financial planning and item planning? Do you have an effective assortment planning tool that can take into account channel-specific requirements and local customer needs?
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Are your demand forecasting and merchandise planning processes centered on customer preferences?
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Are your forecasts as accurate and up-to-date as they could be?
Our Planning and Forecasting solution suite provides the tools merchants and planners need to create, modify and track financial, assortment, promotion and item plans for each channel—and communicate demand, order and inventory changes across the entire supply chain:
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Demand Forecasting produces the optimal forecast input for merchandise planning solutions and inventory optimization.
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Multi-Channel Planning and Direct Planning support the unique characteristics of planning for each channel—and provides cross-channel visibility and inventory planning across store, web, catalog and wholesale channels.
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Financial Planning offers top-down and bottom-up merchandise, store and channel planning with multiple metrics and versions of plans across categories, channels and time periods.
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Store Planning enables retailers to validate the merchandise financial plan and develop plans for each store to drive assortment planning, and allocation.
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Store Clustering groups stores by category based on flexible combinations of planned or actual performance and store attributes to fine-tune store plans and assortments in line with customer demographics.
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Assortment Planning uses localized assortments to ensure inventory and margin are optimized based on local customer demand across every channel.
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Item Planning micro-manages just your key items or plans all your seasonal items to determine the optimum receipt flows.
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Promotion Planning creates, forecasts and tracks events and feeds anticipated lift to replenishment to avoid stock-outs on featured products.
Contact a Manhattan representative today to learn more about how our Planning and Forecasting suite can significantly improve your retail or wholesale supply chain operations.
