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The art of merchandise allocation demands that retailers transform key consumer insights into the right mix of products at each store, all with laser-perfect accuracy. JDA Allocation / Arthur Planning enhances and translates customer knowledge into pinpointed allocations, enabling retailers to optimize store-specific product assortments across the entire retail organization.
Business Challenge
Using JDA Allocation / Arthur Planning, you can efficiently target the optimal mix of products for each store. The solution provides you with a quicker, more efficient process for creating and executing your allocation plans. You can create allocations, based on inventory and assortment plans, for new products, as well as the replenishment of existing items.
 Bottom Line Benefits
- Improved inventory turns and reduced stock-outs
- Optimized store-specific product assortments
- Improved customer satisfaction
- Increased sales and margins
- Maximized inventories by size and color by store
Why JDA
As one of the most robust solutions in the marketplace, JDA Allocation / Arthur Allocation applies built-in, best practice methodologies that enable you to conduct what-if analyses, so you can test allocation strategies prior to execution. With JDA Allocation / Arthur Allocation, you can rest assured that you have the capabilities you need to deliver an ideal product mix to each of your stores as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Application
Arthur® was purchased by JDA in the late 1990s. It is unique to the Unix-based platforms (pSeries, Sun, etc.) and runs on the Oracle database. The suite is comprised of several solutions that can be implemented individually or as a suite. For retailers who want advanced and in-depth planning, assortment plans and allocations, JDA is a leading choice among retailers. The RAPID package is available which is an easy-to-use application based upon best practices and a proven implementation methodology that drives users through a step-by-step process of planning.
The suite is comprised of the following solutions:
Advanced Allocation
The art of merchandise allocation demands that key consumer insights are transformed into the right mix of products at each store. With Advanced Allocation, retailers can optimize store-specific product assortments across the entire retail organization. Customizable to accommodate a broad range of allocation techniques, Advanced Allocation helps keep the big plan in mind as it allocates the details.
The features allow retailers to:
- Allocate merchandise in bulk or pre-pack
- Allocate multiple styles at the same time
- Consider sales history, on hand and Arthur Planning data when calculating distributions
- Group stores based on attributes such as demographics, climate, grade and location
- Schedule and automatically allocate merchandise using established allocation methods
- Use templates, grading or model stock as well as minimum and maximum quantities to control allocations
- Allows for saved Allocation Methods to perform predetermined methodologies on a single click
Assortment Planning
As part of the overall merchandising process, Assortment Planning allows retailers to take the budget for a particular group of items and fine-tune the merchandise mix by store, looking at which items will sell at which stores and in what quantities. Assortment Planning helps optimize merchandise selection, bridging the gap between plan and purchase order.
The features allow retailers to:
- Import company goals and determine whether a planned assortment is in line with goals
- Plan at a low level of detail to achieve the optimum merchandise mix
- Review planned assortments from every angle for each product and store attribute
- Create consolidations of assortments, view collections or get a view of the big picture
Performance Analysis Web
This is a Web-enabled analysis tool to view planning data in standard Web pages utilizing the intranet. It works with standard browsers and standard HTML editors and provides dynamic drill-down and rotation capabilities through a drag and drop interface.
Key benefits include:
- Fast implementations
- Intuitive interface/short learning curve
- Adhoc calculations
- Topic driven navigation that focuses on key issues
- Exception based reporting to help pinpoint areas needing attention
Merchandise Planning
Also known as Arthur ® Planning, this is a multi-dimensional client-server based merchandise planning application, capable of handling large volumes of data while providing ease of use and maintaining data integrity.
The features allow retailers to:
- Spread strategic plans down to any or all lower detail levels or work from bottom up depending on the organization objectives and culture
- Develop plans in dollars and units, considering cross channel customer trends and location specific concerns
- Uses advanced, customizable planning measures to assist in coordination between merchandising, operations and distribution functions
- Allows the effective integration of process, team and support systems
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