Retail Assortment Planning Technology Enters a New Generation

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8 August 2005

Hung LeHong

Many retailers consider assortment planning to be more of an art than a science. However, next-generation planning and analytics technologies are showing that there is actually quite a bit of science to creating great assortments.

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Table of Contents

Analysis

1.0

Assortment Planning Approaches Vary Widely — So Does the Software

2.0

Next-Generation Assortment Planning Capabilities

2.1		Making Assortment Planning a More-Visual Process
2.2		Determining the Right Price Points in an Assortment
2.3		Product Introductions and Item Deletion
2.4		Improving the Collaborative Assortment Planning Process
2.5		Merging Space and Assortment Planning
2.6		Determining the Right Buy Quantities
2.7		Determining the Best Clustering Approach
2.8		Automating the Category Management Process

3.0

What You Need to Know

Recommended Reading

List of Tables

	Table 1.	Improving the Science of Assortment Planning

Retail Systems
Merchandising and Trade Promotion

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