Case Study: South African Retailer Streamlines Merchandise Planning Processes, Decreases Overstocks And Improves Profitability

To maintain its leadership position in the competitive retail environment, PEP needed to re-examine its existing business processes and challenge its current merchandise planning processes to incorporate high-level strategic planning, business-unit planning and detail-level, sub-class planning to better coincide with the execution of its overall company strategy.

Business Benefits

• Improved processes and operating efficiencies across the retail organization
• Achieved greater alignment of supply chain management processes with corporate objectives
• Streamlined in-season and pre-season product planning processes
• Strengthened high-level assortment planning
• Combined proven business needs with industry-leading business practices
• Improved profitability