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Planning and Forecasting enables you to plan multiple key performance measures at all levels of your business—so your merchants, planners and inventory analysts collaborate productively to meet corporate and customer expectations.

When you have thousands of products and a global network of suppliers or multiple distribution and selling channels, reducing orders when demand suddenly drops can seem virtually impossible—like stopping a train with bad brakes. In such a rapidly changing market, you need accurate information to detect shifts in demand early so you can adjust for trends and send the right message to your suppliers, shippers and distribution centres—before you get stuck with unwanted or obsolete goods.

Manhattan’s Planning and Forecasting suite blends flexible planning tools with science to enable you to anticipate demand across every channel—and respond quickly when it changes. By accurately predicting the impact of changing demand on key performance indicators such as margin, turn, receipt flow and inventory flow, you can boost sales, reduce working capital requirements—and keep your customers happy. The ability to accurately target assortments to customer preferences and achieve the right inventory levels for each channel requires both channel-specific and cross-channel focus so you don’t make the mistake of improving performance in one channel at the expense of another.

Planning and Forecasting offers intuitive yet powerful solutions so you can create, modify and track financial, assortment and promotional plans—and communicate changes across the entire supply chain. The suite includes:

• Demand Forecasting
• Multi-Channel Planning
• Financial Planning
• Item Planning
• Assortment Planning
• Promotion Planning
• Store Clustering

As part of Manhattan’s SCOPE: Supply Chain Optimization—Planning through Execution, the Planning and Forecasting suite enables you to plan multiple key performance measures at all levels of your business to ensure your merchants, planners and inventory analysts can work as a team to meet corporate and customer expectations.