i2 Merchandise Financial Planning
With i2 Merchandise Financial Planning, retailers can build and reconcile their financial, product, and store plans, as well as develop a pre-assortment options plan that provides top-down guidance on the assortment breadth and mix, based on targeted selling price, time on offer, and rate of sale.
i2 Merchandise Financial Planning is a highly scalable end-to-end merchandise financial planning solution.
It provides the rich set of capabilities required to execute a closed-loop planning process that synchronizes performance objectives with downstream planning processes.
Benefits of i2 Merchandise Financial Planning can include:
- Increased control over inventory and timing of receipt flows
- Increased revenues and profitability
- Improved alignment between strategy and operations
- Improved exception detection and management for company-wide synchronization
- Improved management of global enterprises at the right level of detail
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i2 Buying and Assortment Management
Leveraging the i2 Agile Business Process Platform - Retail, this highly interactive solution enables buying and planning from the early conceptual stage to the final creation of market-tailored store assortments.
Buying and Assortment Management is a comprehensive assortment planning solution for the top and middle-tier retailer.
The i2 solution is designed to provide retailers with the ability to:
- Bring science to the art of preseason sales forecasting with “pattern-after” intelligence and seasonal sales profiling
- Plan by store cluster using multidimensional attributes and performance measures
- Conduct the buying process in parallel with assortment planning from early concept stage through to receipt planning
- Support constraint-based optimization of receipt flow with respect to an entire supply chain
- Support the complexity of managing assortment down to the style-color or SKU at the local market level
- Plan pricing promotions and markdowns to shape demand, managed inventory, and exploit opportunities
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Allocation and Replenishment Management
Provides the rich set of capabilities required to tackle today’s challenges and provide a leading edge to retailers so they can better serve their customers and compete effectively.
Allocation and Replenishment Management is a next-generation solution that is necessary for retailers to meet increasing expectations for in-stock levels and inventory productivity.
Benefits of i2 Allocation and Replenishment Management solution can include:
- Consistency in managing inventory levels holistically across the supply chain across multiple time periods
- Better in-stock positions resulting in higher customer service levels and better promotional effectiveness
- Reduced inventory levels with optimal inventory investments
- Increased inventory turns
- Reduced stock-outs and markdowns
- Efficiency in logistics and distribution costs by better planning around constraints involving storage, handling, container load building, and vendor capacity
- Overall business/productivity improvements due to managing by exceptions and rapid re-planning
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