# Retail Planning

## Retail Planning

Smart category management and omni-channel shopping experiences backed by in-the-moment data.

- Retail Planning
- Merchandise
- Financial
- Assortment
- Space
- Inventory
- Demand & Data Services

## Your customers expect more

Localized assortments. Higher convenience. Tailored buyer journeys that stay consistent across channels.

And if you don’t deliver to expectations, someone else will.

### Empower your retail teams to make better planning decisions, faster:

- A fully-integrated planning suite that keeps retail strategies aligned and mapped to corporate goals
- Centralized, real-time market and customer data so you can adapt quickly to demand shifts and disruptions
- Built-in AI automation that eliminates manual processes and scales to meet store and channel-specific requirements

Up to 0% revenue lift  
Up to 0% improvement in planner productivity  
Up to 0% reduction in inventory

### Demand & Data Services

Know your customers and the market

### Merchandise

Build your product lifecycle strategy

### Finance

Set reliable, measurable goals

### Assortment

Design store-specific product mixes

### Space

Deliver the ideal in-store customer experience

### Inventory

Maximize profitability while accounting for uncertainty

### Why Cognitive?

- Centralized data
- AI-driven automation
- Real-time adaptability
- Interoperable planning
- Built-in scalability

### A single source-of-truth

Align all of your planning teams around the same interconnected data repository, enabling concurrent planning and end-to-end visibility.

### Eliminate low-value manual processes

Leverage native-built agentic capabilities to fuel true efficiency, shortening planning cycles while delivering more accurate results.

### Respond quickly to uncertainty

Bring real-time market insights and visibility into every aspect of planning, empowering quick, decisive decision-making.

### Do more with less

Eliminate silos and standalone processes, bringing every planning team under the same view so you can focus their limited time and attention where it matters most.

### You don’t have to change everything…to change everything

Go big or start small—Blue Yonder’s flexible, platform-based architecture means that every retail planning “transformation” is at your pace, focused on your priorities.

## Success stories in Retail Planning

### AEON

As a leading multiple-format retailer in Malaysia, AEON needed to improve assortments and on-shelf availability based on local demand in order to deliver on their customer first strategy. Discover how Blue Yonder’s suite of category management capabilities helped AEON make better assortment decisions, maintain schematic plans and more.

### Scouting America Outfitters

Boost sales and streamline operations using Blue Yonder MMS: Optimize turnover, unify store layouts, and enhance data-driven decision making across all channels.

### Bata

Learn how Bata leveraged Blue Yonder's solutions to optimize its end-to-end supply chain planning and merchandising for improved efficiency and profitability.

### Grupo Comercial DSW

Category Management, Space Planning, and Floor Planning provide a fully connected planning process. Demand Planning and Fulfillment supports accurate, granular forecasts.