Solutions

i2 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.

i2 Merchandise Financial Planning is a highly scalable end-to-end merchandise financial planning solution. It provides the rich set of capabilities required to execute a closed-loop planning process that synchronizes performance objectives with downstream planning processes.

Benefits of i2 Merchandise Financial Planning can include:

• Increased control over inventory and timing of receipt flows
• Increased revenues and profitability
• Improved alignment between strategy and operations
• Improved exception detection and management for company-wide synchronization
• Improved management of global enterprises at the right level of detail

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i2 Buying and Assortment Management: Leveraging the i2 Agile Business Process Platform - Retail, this highly interactive solution enables buying and planning from the early conceptual stage to the final creation of market-tailored store assortments.

Buying and Assortment Management is a comprehensive assortment planning solution for the top and middle-tier retailer.

The i2 solution is designed to provide retailers with the ability to:

• Bring science to the art of preseason sales forecasting with “pattern-after” intelligence and seasonal sales profiling
• Plan by store cluster using multidimensional attributes and performance measures
• Conduct the buying process in parallel with assortment planning from early concept stage through to receipt planning
• Support constraint-based optimization of receipt flow with respect to an entire supply chain
• Support the complexity of managing assortment down to the style-color or SKU at the local market level
• Plan pricing promotions and markdowns to shape demand, managed inventory, and exploit opportunities

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Allocation and Replenishment Management: Provides the rich set of capabilities required to tackle today’s challenges and provide a leading edge to retailers so they can better serve their customers and compete effectively.

Allocation and Replenishment Management is a next-generation solution that is necessary for retailers to meet increasing expectations for in-stock levels and inventory productivity.

Benefits of i2 Allocation and Replenishment Management solution can include:

• Consistency in managing inventory levels holistically across the supply chain across multiple time periods
• Better in-stock positions resulting in higher customer service levels and better promotional effectiveness
• Reduced inventory levels with optimal inventory investments
• Increased inventory turns
• Reduced stock-outs and markdowns
• Efficiency in logistics and distribution costs by better planning around constraints involving storage, handling, container load building, and vendor capacity
• Overall business/productivity improvements due to managing by exceptions and rapid re-planning

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