Advanced Merchandise Planning

Finally! A chain and store merchandise planning system totally integrated with allocation, assortment planning and fashion replenishment. All integrated within one application. Store plans will automatically refer to chain plans. Chain plans agree with the sum of store plans. Open to Buy, Gross Margin, Assortment plans, allocations and store SKU replenishment--- all based on automatically trended plans. Features include:

• Top Down, Bottom-Up, Middle Out Chain and Store plans
• Multiple relational Merchandise Hierarchies
• Client defined plan variables and calculations
• Proven ablity to handle thousands of stores and thousands of plan levels (class, style, SKU)
• Matrix balancing functionality enables synchronizing chain plans and store plans for all variables across all levels in the hierarchy
• Powerful store sales and inventory forecast calculations processed on-line or as scheduled to run on a regular basis to react to weekly selling trends

The MID management and development team have been working on solving retail planning, allocation and replenishment problems for over 20 years. We have had the opportunity to bring new technology and new concepts to the MID integrated applications. MID Advanced Planning ties it all together.