Product Sheet: Epicor Retail Planning

Epicor Retail Planning effectively links your financial plans, assortment plans, buying plans and individual store plans. It combines two powerful applications to let you identify what's needed at both the chain and store level, and develop effective inventory models that will maximize your sales while minimizing risks.

Merchandise Planning lets you create and manage your merchandise plans at all levels and across all channels of operation, using flexible merchandise and location hierarchies. Assortment Planning simplifies the process of building ideal assortments in perfect step with your customers, locations, seasons, and budget. Using visual tools linked to your merchandising data and buying and store plans, it lets you create, organize, and view offerings within a location cluster and by store grade.

Features and benefits:

• Identify what's needed at both the chain and store level, and create an accurate inventory model from the top down and/or bottom up
• Build and view your assortments with simple point-and-click functionality and compare them against your financial plan values
• Automatically general allocations and easily execute purchase orders
• Respond quickly to shifting consumer demands
• Balance revisions across your organization