MERCHANDISE PLANNING

As today's fast-paced marketplace is requiring organisations to respond more and more rapidly to fluctuations in demand, having timely sales information (and associated metrics) at our fingertips is becoming increasingly important. Cortell's Merchandise Planning solutions enable enhanced analytics and facilitate information visibility throughout product and organisational hierarchies.

Cortell specialises in tailoring solutions to meet individual business needs. Because our solutions are flexible, alignment with the overarching organisational strategy is easily achievable. Business logic is simply embedded into the inventory models every step of the way.

Cortell's solutions enable both top down and bottom up approaches to Merchandise Planning, with the ability to manage and track variables and metrics over time; whether it is at the enterprise, product line, category, or even individual product level.

   At Cortell we have expertise in:

• Strategic planning
• Pre-season analysis
• Monitoring KPIs and store grading
• Forecasting
• Exception Reporting (Aged stock, etc.)
• Weekly category level reporting and planning (Markdown %'s, variance analysis, etc.)
• Range and line level planning
• Pricing and break-even analysis