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| Bottom Up Planning Objectives |
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| A robust Category Management System for Basic and Fashion Merchandise, based on industry best practices, which can scale to manage large volumes of data, enabling retail organizations of any size to plan and monitor items down to the store level as well as across multiple channels |
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Permits the creation and management of profitable merchandise assortments that are appropriate to the store location, store size and store fixturing
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Ensures that promotional and event inventory needs are built into the planning process |
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Helps buyers reconcile the financial plans with the bottom up merchandise plans, and identify and act on the plan variations |
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Ensures that unit and dollar plans are synchronized |
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Assists buyers in planning SKU rationalization |
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Prevents out of stock and overstock situations through the rapid identification of product trends at a level and within a time horizon in which profitable action can be taken |
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