Planning & Allocation

Planning & Allocation

The art of merchandise planning and allocation demands that key consumer insights are transformed into the right mix of products at each store. Optimize store-specific product assortments across the entire retail organization and fine tune the merchandise mix by store.

 Assortment Planning
 Merchandise Planning
 Enterprise Planning
 Location Planning
 Financial Planning

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 Store and Space Planning
 Planning Process Review
 Advance Allocation
 Performance Analysis Web

Advanced Replenishment

Advanced Replenishment

Effective replenishment requires precise deployment that accurately predicts inventory needs and reacts to fluid demand patterns across the supply chain. Through daily collaboration, retailers reduce inventory, enhance safety stock, receive greater visibility throughout the network and ensure the right products are available at the most opportune margins.

 Demand Forecasting
 Leadtime Forecasting
 Order Policy Analysis
 Service Level Analysis

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 Replenishment
 Special Order Analysis
 Order Validity

Space & Category Management

Space & Category Management

Space, floor, assortment and category management ensures optimal customer value at the shelf. Capitalize sales and margins of floor space and assortments utilizing historical and current trending data to ensure sell through. All space and category deployments include data analysis, reporting, insights and business intelligence to support product and category placement.

 Space Planning
 Floor Planning
 Assortment Planning

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 Reporting
 Insights

Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing

Businesses are demanding ways to balance overhead and gain efficiencies in a challenging environment. Cloud computing provides today’s retail marketplace with lower cost options, greater infrastructure, more rapid deployment and improved security. RPE works with organizations to select the appropriate platform and best fit application.

 Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
 Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
 Data-as-a-Service (DaaS)

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