Consuming Applications -
Transform your planning processes  

The planning applications on the SAP CAR platform provide consistent, end-to-end planning for retail, wholesale and digital business strategies (e.g. web shop) based on proven best practices.  

The solutions integrate and facilitate various processes in the areas of strategic financial and merchandise planning, store planning, assortment planning, open-to-buy and intelligent automated distribution planning.

All applications share a central repository for all activities. This allows you to quickly coordinate strategic merchandise and assortment plans and significantly reduce manual effort. Spreadsheets are no longer necessary in planning processes.

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Consuming Applications

  • Merchandise Planning

  • Assortment Planning

  • Allocation Management

  • Promotion Management

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Target

  • Optimal availability of products & quantities, at the right place, time & price

  • Integrative IT instruments for cross-linking complex interfaces between strategic goals of the management, merchandise & assort­ment planning of product manage­ment, purchasing, store distribution and area and stock management

  • Support of planning for a wide range of goods, formats and channels

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Advantages

  • Better achievement of margin targets through simplified collaboration between merchandise / assortment and distribution planning including master data integration

  • Higher customer satisfaction through target group driven assortment planning

  • Use of best-practice templates, thus immediate readiness of the solution

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Merchandise Planning

  • HANA-based architecture in SAP CAR for better performance and user-friendly user interface

  • Merchandise Planning serves the detailed configuration of the overall strategic guidelines

  • Top-down / bottom-up / middle-out planning of your key figures at every level of the merchandise category and article hierarchy

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Assortment Planning

  • Plan assortments on the basis of historical sales figures for the various merchandise groups and sales locations

  • Align the breadth and depth of the product range with the strategic goals

  • Determination of the expected requirement quantity through collaboration of various processes in Assortment Planning

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Allocation Management

  • Automated allocation management based on sales, potentials and strategies to meet consumer demand for a specific period of time

  • Complete end-to-end integration into the upstream planning processes as well as the downstream operative ordering and logistics processes

  • An "In-Season Distribution" can be carried out on the basis of UDF forecasts

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Promotion Planning

  • For creating promotional offers and customer-oriented advertising material for the retail, wholesale and digital consumer goods industry

  • Use of intelligent forecasting algorithms for quantity planning to increase the sales quota and avoid shrinkage

  • Complete end-to-end integration with our promotion management tool "PP&C", the SAP marketing tool for customer-specific offers, as well as the settlement of supplier remuneration via the condition contract