Merchandise Financial Planning

Leverage retail analytics to drive financial, merchandise, and location planning

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i2 Merchandise Financial Planning

i2 Merchandise Financial Planning (MFP) is a highly scalable, end-to-end merchandise financial planning solution. With i2 MFP, retailers can build and reconcile 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. Supported by configurable best-practice workflows and proactive exception management, the solution enables retailers to improve revenues and margins by achieving greater consistency and speed in their planning process.

i2 MFP provides a comprehensive, aligned planning tool that enables retailers to:

Align strategic, merchandise, store, and options plans
Manage global enterprises at the right level of detail
Gain visibility into exceptions
Manage winners and losers, and dynamically re-plan in season
Implement rapidly with low risk

Customers from major retail segments, including department stores, specialty stores, and mass merchants, are benefiting from the solution’s flexibility and scalability. The flexible framework supports the requirements of catalog and online channels, as well as brick-and-mortar businesses—all in a single planning environment.

Benefits of i2 MFP include: