JDA Software - The Supply Chain Company

Merchandise Planning & Assortment Management

Drive profits by balancing inventory investment and sales goals with localized consumer demand

To improve performance and competitive advantage, retailers need to synchronize their strategic, financial and operating planning activities across their retail operations. With JDA’s Merchandise Planning & Assortment Management solutions, companies can develop comprehensive, enterprise-wide plans that more accurately reflect consumer demand and drive margins.  

Transform your business by using JDA solutions to:

  • Provide enterprise visibility into strategic, financial and operational planning activities
  • Allocate optimized assortments based on localized consumer demand
  • Pinpoint consumer preferences to decrease carrying  costs, lost sales and markdowns
  • Improve global merchandising decisions and reduce unproductive inventory

Achieve real results with JDA’s proven software for merchandise planning and assortment management:

Optimize store-specific product assortments across the entire retail organization.
Create a customer-centric buying and planning process to deliver market-tailored store assortments.
Identify consumer demand patterns at the store level for products, price points and brands.
Centralize and deliver visibility into critical information that enables timely, accurate decision making.
Drive profitable replenishment and optimize the merchandise management process.
Monitor all planning activities, including performance to original plan, forecast and actual.
Determine a best-fit size template for ordering, allocation and replenishment by style, class or department.