For years, planning has gained more and more importance. Besides cost and margin pressure, a lack of proper planning can be felt throughout all parts of a company’s value chain . Today, a scalable and integrated planning system is essential for successfully creating corporate budgets and efficient assortments per channel. Retailers need meaningful real-time visibility across all performance metrics to support retail performance analysis for all channels, stores and categories.
The main focus of this workshop is on financial and merchandise planning. Top-down and/or Bottom-Up planning approaches, what-if simulations, planning on different granularities and reconciliation across LOB´s. All abilities are of course based on SAP’s strategic Retail platform – SAP Customer Activity Repository.
SAP delivers a closed loop solution for retail business processes based on industry best practices for an improved efficiency and accuracy in merchandise decision making. Being built on SAP CAR, SAP Merchandise Planning for Retail utilizes planning functionalities of SAP Planning Application Kit, powered by SAP HANA.
Combined with the constantly improved user interface SAP Business Objects Analysis, Edition for MS Excel, SAP is delivering enhanced planning content for financial and merchandise planning, incorporating key business functionalities, like e.g. omni-channel planning, rolling planning and sales fulfillment planning.
In addition to an updated, appealing look and feel, the solution will have several new functional capabilities that will enhance the user experience:
- Intuitive pre- and in-season management
- Rolling planning
- Inventory splits between store and DC
- Pocket calculations
- Highlight changes
- Slice / dice and drilldown
- Alternative hierarchies
- Cell locking
- Inverse calculation / rules of precedence
- Virtual data model based on SAP CAR
- Show/hide measure set (dynamic user defined measures)
- Drag and drop data elements
- Planning functions and sequences
The continuous cooperation between planning and reporting on different company levels and the inclusion of factors from different business areas makes it possible to analyze the current situation of the company and define the right procedures and goals for the future. To get an initial overview of the strengths and possibilities of SAP Planning for Retail, we offer this workshop in which you will receive more information about
- Business Challenges and special Retail Process issues for Planning in Retail
- Financial and Merchandise Planning based on SAP CAR Application ‘SAP Merchandise Planning for Retail’ and using new SAP BO Analysis for MS Excel UI including process description and demo and exercises
- Customizing possibilities with BW-PAK including process description, demo and exercises
- Customizing possibilities with SAP BO Analysis for MS Excel including process description, demo and exercise
- The positioning of planning inside the SAP Retail landscape
- The SAP Merchandise Planning roadmap including its closely tied solution SAP Assortment Planning for Retail