Merchandise Financial Planning
The i2 Merchandise Financial Planning (MFP) workflow powers a closed-loop planning process to realize sales gains while delivering a superior customer shopping experience. It combines the “art” of planning with data-driven retail analytics and statistics. i2 MFP powers a planning process that drives top-down, bottom-up, and middle-out planning across channels and segments, and supports financial, merchandise, and location planning in a single environment. This process provides visibility into plan exceptions. i2 MFP leverages the i2 Agile Business Process Platform, which is built on a highly scalable data and technology architecture, and integrates data into downstream buying and assortment management processes.
Buying and Assortment Management
i2 Buying and Assortment Management (BAM) is a comprehensive assortment planning solution for the top- and middle-tier retailer. This highly interactive solution can enable buying and planning from the early conceptual stage to the final creation of market-tailored store assortments. Supporting receipt plans can be reconciled with top-down “open-to-buy” constraints dictated by the financial merchandise plan. i2 BAM leverages the i2 Agile Business Process Platform, a highly scalable data and technology architecture that enables data-level integration into upstream merchandise financial planning processes as well as downstream allocation and replenishment management processes.
Allocation and Replenishment Management
i2 Allocation and Replenishment Management (ARM) enables the creation of feasible and actionable plans that account for plan targets and constraints in a connected multi-level supply chain. Given that most fashion products go through a push (initial allocation) – pull (back-to-sales replenishment) – push (end-of-life or markdown) life cycle, i2 ARM plans basics replenishment and fashion allocations in a single system. To ensure that the plans are executable, i2 ARM accounts for supply and capacity constraints to create feasible plans over time – every time. Also, the plans are created on a connected supply chain – from vendor to DC to store – in a single model.
Cycle Time Optimization
i2 Cycle Time Optimization (CTO) accomplishes two key goals. First, it optimizes the procurement spend across the supplier base. Second, it minimizes the concept-to-store cycle time. This is enabled by:
- Establishing a collaborative design and product development process between merchants and the sourcing teams
- Enabling a pre-positioning of material and factory capacity to product that is synchronized with in-store dates
- Creating a differentiated flow of product to the store, driven by product and location segmentation
Unmatched intellectual property
- Collaboration with major retailers and branded suppliers around the world, including Gap, Payless ShoeSource, Nike, VF Corp, adidas, and Woolworths
Real-world tested scalability
- Payless ShoeSource: 1,000 style-colors (x 13 sizes) @ 4,700 stores/52 weeks
- VF Corp: 75 DCs, 100+ plants, 20 cutting centers, and more than 200,000 SKUs
i2 Agile Business Process Platform
- Reference data model across retail, sourcing, supply chain, and transportation
- Service-oriented architecture to leverage existing system investments
- Modular for incremental growth
Familiar, responsive user interaction paradigm
- Browser and Excel-based user interfaces
- Interactive, incremental planning capability
The i2 team
- Knowledge base of leading practices across retail and consumer goods industries
- Deep industry knowledge, with broad engagement experience in business strategy, change readiness, opportunity assessment, and process consulting across retail, sourcing, supply chain, and transportation domains
- Proven project management team with direct experience in implementing solutions for large retail and national brand companies
i2 customer base
- Strategic partnerships with retail and branded product industry leaders
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