Oracle Retail Planning Solutions

Oracle Retail provides the industry's most comprehensive suite of merchandise planning and optimization solutions supporting pre-season and in-season planning processes, as well as inventory execution. The planning solution suite supports the creation of financial, item, assortment, category, space, replenishment and allocation plans. These solutions provide retail-specific, science-based decision support and profit optimization by utilizing sophisticated mathematical models and optimization routines to create intelligent estimates of future business opportunities, giving retailers a common demand-planning engine across the enterprise execution system.

Oracle Retail’s predictive planning platform offers an embedded best-practice process but allows retailers to configure the process based on the unique needs of their business and to leverage the embedded capabilities for automating and optimizing decisions.

Oracle Retail merchandise planning solutions enable retailers to determine which products should be on the shelves, how much should be bought, how to price, what to promote, and what and when to mark down—in order to maximize sales while minimizing costs and constraints. With Oracle solutions, retailers can:

• Utilize category management best-practice workflows to achieve the ideal product mix.
• Allocate products to individual stores and manage multiple types of allocation to ensure the right quantity of product is in the right location at the right time to maximize sales, profits, and customer satisfaction.
• Perform full lifecycle, item-level planning to produce a bottom-up plan in support of, and in conjunction with, an overall financial plan.
• Optimize use of space—from a macro space level, to a fixture and shelf level—and translate assortment plans into executable space plans for the highest possible return on inventory investment.
• Optimize prices to drive sales and improve profits.
• Optimize markdowns to maximize revenue and profit.