Merchandise Planning

Big Picture Planning

Merchandise planners far and wide have to consider two main things: money and demand. While some retailers do this from two very separate spreadsheets, Jesta’s Merchandise Planning module considers cost and customer desires simultaneously. After all, your product purchases have to suit both your financial and customer-driven needs.

Jesta’s Merchandise Planning module is wholly integrated with Vision Merchandising (read: one centralized, single version of the truth). Planning and Merchandising can be synchronized on command or scheduled to do so as you wish. Jesta’s Planning tool accommodates multiple plans (original, current and working) so you can review and modify, then easily compare different planned tactics against each other.

Calculating revenue, margins and open-to-buys in tight harmony with past performance and inventory forecasts, while cascading planning scenarios top-down or bottom-up at the executive or merchandise level, improves the success rate of your merchandise strategies. What’s more, when adjustments have to be made, this kind of holistic approach makes time-consuming recalculations easier, faster and more precise.

Combine your data sources — there’s strength in numbers.