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Buying and Assortment Management
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i2 Buying and Assortment Management
i2 Buying and Assortment Management (BAM) is the industry’s most comprehensive purchasing and planning solution. Built on the i2 platform, this interactive suite of tools supports key processes in assortment management—from the creation of placeholder concepts to the generation of purchase orders representing buys that are properly timed, packed, and aligned with merchandise management objectives.
i2 BAM creates receipt plans driven by sales strategies that are simultaneously reconciled to several merchandise management objectives, including financial targets, customer preferences, space constraints, and inventory performance. The tool provides continuous visibility into the effect of assortment decisions on key result areas, providing the user with powerful “what-if” analysis capabilities in a familiar and comfortable user interface environment—Microsoft Excel®.
Solution Capabilities
- Historical performance analytics
- A buyer’s repository of item, attribute, and sourcing information
- Assortments by store and group with product, store, and shelf attributes
- Easily interpreted summary to help reconcile performance to merchandise plan
- Continuous monitoring of assortment decisions on space, product mix, and other objectives
- Fully automated in-season planning with adaptive forecasting
- Analytical support to identify key assortment planning parameters
- Historical summary and in-line views to support improved planning and distribution decisions
- The ability to plan price points across locations by time period
- Dummy style and colors for “what-if” planning with supporting workflows
Benefits
- Improved customer centricity with targeted assortments for local markets
- Support for targeted markdown decisions to maximize margin and minimize leftover inventory
- Scientific approach to pattern after intelligence and seasonal sales profiling that enhances
the art of preseason sales forecasting - Optimization of receipt flows to enable lower supply chain costs and improve product
allocation decisions - Integration of processes across buying and assortment planning
- Quick return on investment by deploying only required, high-value components that fit within existing systems landscape or a phased implementation of modules; there’s no need to “rip and replace” or deploy all modules at once
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Product Sheet
5 Keys to Success in Advanced Retail Planning
Increase Profitability by Managing Local Market Assortments - Focus
Customer-Centric Strategies for Assortment Management
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