Merchandise planning services
Broadly, there are two ways I can support your business. Both are designed to help you make your day-to-day merchandising more efficient, so that you and your teams can focus on the tasks that add value to your decision making – both in terms of the big picture and the finer details.
Fractional merchandise planning
I work with businesses who need expertise in merchandise planning to help them unlock profit, optimise stock, make their processes more efficient, and ultimately grow!
This support is flexible to your business’ needs, but could include:
Establishing a merchandise planning function
I can plan an organisational structure that’s suitable for your business, defining roles and responsibilities and upskilling your team where needed.
Embedding effective merchandise planning tools
I’ll create bespoke tools from scratch and launch them into your business, from reporting suites to range plans, WSSIs and demand plans.
Freelance part-time merchandise planning support
I’ll tailor my services to suit you, whether you need support reviewing and analysing performance, identifying risks and opportunities to your trading plan, ensuring stock and OTB are within agreed parameters, range planning, sales forecasting, allocation planning or something else.
Interested?
“We have seen enormous benefit from using the ‘Range Plan’ that Retail With Clarity developed and now have great trust in the integrity of the data we are working with.”
Commercial Director, Pep & Co
Support with system design and implementation
There comes a stage in any growing business where its existing spreadsheets, tools and processes are no longer enough. I’ll help you move to new systems that shift you from crunching the numbers to reviewing and using them to drive business.
The support I offer includes:
Leading system design on your behalf
Commissioning new merchandise planning software can be a complicated and time-consuming task. I’ll work with the developer of your choice to scope and design a system that works for your business, supporting industry best practices and underpinning sustainable commercial growth. I can also support you with assessing the suitability of solutions from potential providers.
Embedding the new system into your organisation
I’ll map out how the new system fits into your merchandising planning function, revising roles and responsibilities, optimising processes and upskilling your team as needed. With a roadmap in place, the rollout of the new system will be as seamless as possible.
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“Your knowledge and experience made my job a lot easier. Hard-working, unflappable, quality-focused - one of the best, probably the best, in this role that I have worked with.”
Project Manager, international Merchandise Financial Planning and WSSI implementation
