Manage the financial planning and product lifecycle process all in one place, connecting the merchandise and finance team like never before.
This model provides truly Connected Planning between merchandise and FP&A. Plans flow instantaneously between finance and merchandise departments, enabling the most-informed users to simultaneously contribute to modeling their part of the weekly, monthly, or annual processes, and together analyze the impact to drive to the future.
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Finance and Merchandise Planning for Retail with Anaplan
Build your customer funnel, with cohorted behavior analysis to identify active customers, orders, frequency, and AOV.
Allocate your sales plan to existing and planned retail locations based on historically-informed store profiles.
Incorporate input from your real estate committee, planning out new store openings with capex and opex assumptions.
Enable merchandise budgeting for purchasing and COGS with an open-to-buy at the category level.
Set inventory service levels such as weeks of supply, minimum order quantity, target re-order levels, to drive replenishment.
Produce on your top-down sales forecasting by leveraging seasonality and outputs of your customer funnel.
Incorporate a store profile’s assumed assortment to produce a highly accurate average order value or average selling price.
Compare top-down sales target with the bottom-up retail build to identify gaps to plan and take action to close those gaps
Incorporate sales orders, purchase orders, and a statistically-driven SKU-level demand plan to inform replenishment.
Facilitate in-season planning with Next-4-Week forecasting driven by store profile and recent historical performance.
