Assortment Planning: Retail Assortment Planning Software

Manhattan Associates’ Assortment Planning efficiently executes retail assortment strategies and tailors product selections based on customer preferences, local markets and cross-channel considerations. The robust yet simple-to-use solution enables merchants to build and manage assortment plans using unlimited attributes -- taking into account space capacity, display criteria, open to buy and customer preferences.

Any changes to the assortment are reconciled to attribute mix targets financial goals and item plans. Together with Store Clustering, Assortment Planning provides localisation capabilities to differentiate assortments based on customer preferences by store group and even down to store level

Assortment Planning makes the process of building and managing assortments fast, intuitive and efficient. With this powerful solution you can:   

• Manage the end-to-end process of building, managing and planning assortments for new and existing products and styles
• Set up assortment hierarchies, with variable and overlapping start and end dates and unlimited assortment information
• Track attribute mix versus targets
• Analyse bestsellers from previous or similar assortments
• Localise assortments to accommodate each location's specific customer preferences
• Utilise placeholder and proxy items with similar history
• Synchronise assortments with Item Planning to plan and track items using multiple measures and versions and reconcile back to financial goals
• Plan by average store, cluster or store in your retail channel
• Plan by campaign, book or media drop for your direct channel

Combined with our Financial Planning and Item Planning solutions, Assortment Planning executes enterprise-level goals to optimise inventory investment in line with customer preferences across every selling channel.

Contact a Manhattan Associates representative to learn more about Assortment Planning and other solutions in our Planning and Forecasting suite.