Merchandise Financial Planning
Establish consumer-centric, omnichannel financial guidelines to manage inventory profitability and productivity
Competition is expanding, and inventory lifecycles are becoming shorter. Planning can no longer be conducted in silos constrained by artificial “seasonal” time frames and rigid hierarchies. With Blue Yonder’s merchandise financial planning, companies can easily tie enterprise-wide strategic plans to the execution of shared goals, establishing consumer-centric, omnichannel financial guidelines to manage inventory profitability and productivity.
Up to
35%
Increased Store Sales
Up to
30%
Reduced Inventory Level
Up to
10%
Reduced Waste
Merchandise Financial Planning
Leverage consumer-centric, omnichannel financial guidelines to profitably manage inventory and productivity.
Combine data science and machine learning to predict customer demand, seasonality and non-linear trends at a granular level across channels and stores.
Reduce waste with granular planning accuracy and optimize markdowns with machine learning to maximize revenue.
Plan the relevant measures to drive each channel's business, maintain a common inventory pool across channels and gain a holistic view of the organization.
Elevate long-range strategic plans by incorporating real estate plans and product strategies to evaluate business growth and opportunities.
Fulfill Your Planning Potential with Blue Yonder
Improved forecasting
Increase sales and reduce mark-downs and network inventory with highly granular forecasts across categories and segments.
Optimized calculations
Dynamically calculate volume of inventory that can be purchased at any one time based on network capacity and planned sell through, while accounting for markdowns.
Faster time to value
Deliver faster and higher returns with planning tools that transform process and deliver results in record time by combining powerful data insights with the industry leading analytics.
Increased margins
Increase revenue and reduce waste through improved forecasting and reduce fulfillment costs by aligning fulfillment and inventory in advance.
Improved cash flow
Improve fill rates, lower costs associated with non-compliance to OTIF targets and reduce investment in working capital due to more accurate forecasts.
Unified solution
Flexible, scalable, and integrated solution provides the visibility and control retailers need to leverage each opportunity that comes their way.
“We established a much more robust planning system that goes all the way down to the subclass level, measuring performance in both dollars and units. As a result, we are much more capable of controlling our sales, inventory and forecasting. That has significantly improved our margins.”
–– Vice President of Planning & Allocation, DSW
