Retail Planning

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Oracle Retail Value Chain Collaboration
Oracle Retail Value Chain Collaboration combines
supply chain data visibility with the flexible
exception identification and collaboration
features needed for collaborative forecasting and
replenishment. It is a highly flexible, Web-based
planning engine that allows manufacturers and
retailers to collaborate on turning demand
forecasts into order and shipment plans.
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Oracle Retail Price Optimization
Oracle Retail Price Optimization provides
merchants and price analysts with customer demand
insight and optimization to enhance the pricing
process. It enables you to provide the right
products at the right prices, promote them to
drive sales, and clear them profitably, while
providing more space for fresh, full-price
merchandise. Oracle Retail Price Optimization
provides merchants and price analysts with
customer demand insight and optimization to
enhance the pricing process. It enables you to
provide the right products at the right prices,
promote them to drive sales, and clear them
profitably, while providing more space for fresh,
full-price merchandise.
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Oracle Retail Category Management
Oracle Retail Category Management applies
scientifically based space optimization
calculations to generate optimal space allocation
recommendations that maximize revenue and
profits. It meets the needs of different types of
retailers, allowing retailers use different
methodologies to define their product mix.
Hard-lines retailers, for example, can follow
category management best practices, while
soft-lines retailers concentrate on defining
assortment depth and breadth.. Oracle Retail
Category Management is an easy-to-configure
solution that provides a basic assortment
planning template that can be tailored further to
meet each retailer's specific requirementswithout
programming customization.
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Oracle Retail Demand Forecasting
Oracle Retail Demand Forecasting uses time
series forecasting algorithms and
state-of-the-art modeling techniques to create
accurate forecasts with little human
intervention. The solution handles forecasting at
a low level of detail (such as at the item, by
store, by day level), forecasting for new
products, and forecasting for products with
sparse sales, highlighting the anomalies for your
review. Oracle Retail Demand Forecasting
provides all departments with a common forecast
to drive the entire retail enterprise, bringing
together forecasts produced for replenishment,
merchandise planning, financial planning, and
collaborative planning.
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Oracle Retail Allocation
Oracle Retail Allocation helps retailers
determine the inventory requirements at the item
and location level. Using real-time inventory
information, the system calculates need based on
parameters you setwhether it's the
characteristics of the product, the store, or the
category. Oracle Retail Allocation supports the
process of allocating products to individual
stores and manages multiple types of allocation,
ensuring the right quantity of product is in the
right location at the right time to maximize
sales, profits, and customer satisfaction.
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Oracle Retail Item Planning
Oracle Retail Item Planning provides full
lifecycle, item-level planning capabilities to
produce a bottom-up plan in support of an overall
financial plan. Oracle Retail Item Planning
supports the entire lifecycle of an item by
providing pre- and in-season workflow that gives
you continuous visibility into sales,
inventories, and profitsallowing you to avoid
lost sales due to inadequate inventory and
overstocks that drain profits.
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Oracle Retail Merchandise Financial Planning
Oracle Retail Merchandise Financial Planning
provides flexible and easy-to-use financial
planning solution templates that enable you to
create high-level strategic and low-level
detailed financial plans. The solution guides you
through best-practice planning processes in an
efficient, streamlined manner while providing
top-down, bottom-up, and middle-out functionality
for developing, reconciling, and approving
plans.. Oracle Retail Merchandise Financial
Planning provides both pre-season and in-season
planning with key financial indicators that
include sales, markdowns, receipts, inventory,
gross margin, and open-to-buy. It can be used by
retailers using either cost or retail accounting
methods and can be used to plan for multiple
retail channels, including stores, internet and
catalog.
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Oracle Retail Regular Price Optimization
Oracle Retail Regular Price Optimization
provides tactical pricing recommendations for
"everyday" retail prices. The solution uses item
pricing to understand the impact of price changes
on sales, and then ensures the product is priced
at the optimum level to maximize profits or
revenue. By analyzing your pricing structure,
you can achieve a pricing strategy across brands
and categories, and even take into consideration
brand differentiation and packaging differences,
in an effort to maximize profits or revenue.
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Oracle Retail Advance Inventory Planning
Oracle Retail Advanced Inventory Planning
enables the creation of realistic,
forward-looking, constraint-based replenishment
and allocation plans across the supply chain and
converts these plans into orders, transfers, load
builds, and transportation schedules. It combines
time-phase replenishment and allocation
algorithms to produce an actionable receipt plan
based on demand forecasts, replenishment
parameters, and inventory availability at the
numerous points within the supply chain. Oracle
Retail Advanced Inventory Planning provides a
tactical inventory plan that allows you to
optimally forecast consumer demand, source
supply, and fulfill demand in a time-phased
manner, thus providing the ability to manage the
supply chain from interaction with suppliers,
through various layers of warehouses, down to
individual stores and e-commerce sites.
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Oracle Retail Inventory Optimization
Oracle Retail Supply Chain Optimization uses
advanced forecasting and simulation techniques to
determine optimal supply chain parameters,
including vendor minimums, pack size, how often
an item should be ordered, and whether it should
be stocked in a warehouse, cross-docked, or
shipped directly from a supplier. Optimization
takes into account data such as sales volume,
volatility, forecast data, seasonality, client
business rules and constraints, and financial
objectives. Oracle Retail Supply Chain
Optimization can help you balance all the
variables and constraints to create the optimal
inventory balance to maximize sales and minimize
inventory.
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Oracle Retail Place In-Season
Oracle Retail Place In-Season executes the
intent of the assortment plan and distributes
available inventory to the stores to maximize
sales and gross margin. Orders are generated by
size and pre-pack to meet store demand leading to
highly efficient allocation.
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Oracle Retail Plan Pre-Season
Oracle Retail Plan Pre-Season is a decision
support and workflow solution that helps
retailers maximize inventory ROI. Whereas
traditional assortment planning systems merely
record static decisions, Plan Pre-Season adds the
power of analytics to both pre-season and
in-season, enabling informed merchandising
decisions and complementing the merchants
product selection.
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Oracle Retail Promotion Planning Optimization
Oracle Retail Promotion Planning
and Optimization provides retailers with the
insight into customer demand drivers and their
level of effectiveness for past and
future events.   Armed with the visibility and
intelligence derived as a result of the Promotion
Planning and Optimization's integrated planning,
forecasting and analytic components, retailers
are empowered to predict and achieve the highest
possible returns on future advertising and
inventory investments .
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