Assortment
The Products That
Customers Want
When it comes to retail assortments, buyers have to determine the ideal breadth and depth of their merchandise portfolio to make a wide range of in-store and online shoppers happy, while also keeping budgets, historical sales, margins, store capacities and your brand identity in mind. Enter Jesta’s Assortment solution.
Jesta’s Assortment software helps you build new items with ease and optimize your merchandise mix for an entire selling season. Select each item’s characteristics with store and customer segments in mind, and gradually develop product ranges that are cohesive without pressure to finish the process all at once. When new items are validated, buyers can convert them into POs via the same screen; the Open-to-Buy is accessible too for complete efficiency.
The shipping costs of inventory cubes can be determined for complete budget planning.
Assorted
Goods
Discover the core features that make Jesta I.S. Merchandising ERP your ultimate choice for success:
Build
Create
After provisional or “in progress” styles and POs are validated successfully, they’re converted into actual styles and new POs.
Provisional style and PO data can be filled in manually or automatically by selecting a predefined style template (adjustments can be made) or by importing an Excel file.
Cost Components are defined during product PO building; Shipping Cost Components can be calculated in a container simulation framework.
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Merchandise Planning
Define your open-to-buys, margins and revenue, digitize your planning and KPIs so users can easily share, publish and reconcile different plans and versions.
Assortment
Build customer-centric assortments, optimize the breadth and depth of your product portfolio and automate your strategies to maximize sales.
Allocation & Distribution
Allocate your inventory to the stores and channels that are likely to sell it the fastest at the highest price considering what’s been sold and localized demand.
Replenishment
Automatically push the right inventory in the right amount to the right place at the right time to maintain optimum stock and service levels.
Size-Pack Optimization
Leverage historical sales data to auto-determine the optimal quantity per size for prepacks to more quickly meet localized demand and maximize sales.
Price & Markdown Management
Plan, analyze and adjust temporary and permanent price changes, simulate their effect on sales and automate markdowns according to your predefined rules.
Sales Audit
Reconcile your POS and OMS data with the transactions and inventory data in your Merchandising applications to ensure accuracy, compliance and control.
Warehouse Management
Achieve unified inventory and order visibility, enhance your space utilization and improve pick-pack-ship efficiency with desktop and mobile capabilities.
Buyer's Toolbox
Review the lifecycle of your inventory at various milestones via a 360° visual carousel of your products. Take action to optimize sales performance.
Category Management
Review key sales and inventory KPIs at the department, class, subclass and item level to track and adjust buying and planning with optimal results.
Analytics
Transform real-time insights into strategic data-driven actions. Leverage predictive and prescriptive analytics based on market and performance data.
Financials
Digitize and centralize your POs, easily and securely manage your EDI invoices with real-time updates, automate three-way invoice matching and more.
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Questions
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What is assortment planning in retail?
Assortment planning in retail is the process of deciding which products to offer, in what variety, depth, and quantity, across stores, channels, and seasons. It helps retailers align product selection with customer demand, available space, financial targets, and merchandising strategy.
What does assortment planning software do?
Assortment planning software helps retailers build, manage, and optimize product assortments based on customer demand, store clusters, sales goals, and inventory constraints. It improves visibility into product mix decisions and supports faster, more accurate planning than manual spreadsheet-based processes.
Why is assortment planning important for retailers?
Assortment planning is important because it helps retailers offer the right products to the right customers in the right locations. A strong assortment strategy improves product relevance, supports sales growth, reduces excess inventory, and helps merchants balance breadth, depth, and profitability.
How does assortment planning improve the customer experience?
Assortment planning improves the customer experience by ensuring shoppers find products that match their preferences, needs, and local demand patterns. Retailers can build more customer-centric assortments by tailoring product selection by store, region, season, and channel.
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