Today’s planning solutions include demand-driven, constraint-based tools designed to improve sales and operations planning and factory planning, while also helping companies manage risk. Optimizing speed and productivity can have a great impact on the bottom line.
Planning solutions include:
Allocation and Replenishment Management
A new-generation allocation and replenishment management solution is necessary
for retailers to meet increasing expectations for in-stock levels and inventory
productivity.
Buying and Assortment Management
i2 Buying and Assortment Management is a comprehensive assortment planning solution for the top and middle-tier retailer.
Collaborative Supply Execution
Both buyers and suppliers can benefit by collaborating on critical supply chain issues, from initial order through shipping, inventory, and overall management.
Forecast Optimization
Having accurate demand forecasts can cut costs throughout the supply chain. Companies that are the best at demand forecasting have less inventory, stronger order fulfillment, and shorter cash-to-cash cycle times.
Inventory Optimization
i2 Inventory Optimization enables an organization to fundamentally improve service levels, minimize inventory costs, and reduce lead times.
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.
Merchandise Planner
i2 Merchandise Planner is a powerful financial, category, and assortment planning tool with deep reporting capabilities. It can enable retailers to increase sales and profits while meeting inventory goals by determining the right products to carry for each store.
Profiler
i2 Profiler can provide a highly interactive graphical approach to the creation, maintenance, and monitoring of seasonal profiles that are used to create forecasts within replenishment packages, such as i2 Replenishment Planner.
Promotions Optimizer
i2 Promotions Optimizer helps retailers manage all aspects of promotion planning to ensure that promotions achieve sales and profit targets.
Replenishment Planner
To ensure that products are available when needed in stores without
overstocking, companies must carefully plan the movement of goods from vendors
through transportation providers and distribution centers to stores.
Supply Collaboration/Lean Replenishment
i2 Supply Collaboration/Lean Replenishment is designed to help companies manage multiple replenishment modes, including lean supply strategies across their supplier base.
Virtual Direct
i2 Virtual Direct provides companies with an option for how to design and manage their supply chains. The Virtual Direct offering can help companies by providing segmentation studies to pick the right product categories and channels as well as define the right supply chain parameters for selected categories.
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