Challenge
- Identified the opportunity to improve their merchandise planning processes while also addressing many functional deficiencies of their legacy solution.
Solution
- Implemented Oracle Cloud Planning solution to support the end-to-end fiscal planning, budgeting and reprojection processes.
- Enabled the Planning teams to create and manage plans for the various selling and distribution channels.
- Enabled the unification of top-down merchandise financial and bottom’s-up item/unit planning, facilitating the team’s ability to manage their forecasts down to item/channel/day.
- Developed hyper-detailed user and executive level reporting and analysis via a suite of reports, dashboards and tailored tools.
Outcome
- Equipped the business with a state-of-the-art Merchandise Financial Planning capability for the next decade and beyond.
- Enhanced business insight through the fusion of historical, on-order and systemic machine learning forecasts.