What Is Merchandising Software?

Small and mid-sized retailers can learn a lesson that tier-one retailers have learned the hard way: merchandise planning can and should be a precise science. If not, poor merchandise decisions will usually lead to lost profits. On the most basic level, merchandising software helps retailers plan and execute merchandise operations, including deciding which items to stock, where to stock them, when to promote them and how to price them. It eliminates the guesswork that retailers have been conducting for years, often based on subjective experience and formulas in Excel spreadsheets.

Core features for merchandising systems include pricing engines that help retailers price items based on competitors’ prices, gross profit margins, demand, past sales performance and vendor incentives. Systems also help retailers recognize where given items sell best and under what conditions. Analytical tools help retailers see the impact of their decisions to better plan future merchandising strategies.

Benefits of Merchandising Software

• Create all types of fixtures & place products
• Edit fixture & products
• Assign sales data & analysis
• Highlight fixture & hot-spots
• Highlight over & under stocked products
• Category management reports
• Merchandise in store using plans
• Share plans with clients in any format
• Create a consistent look & feel in all stores
• Manage range & space across all store sizes
• 3D views for presentations
• Range review presentations
• Perform category analysis, space vs. sales
• Gap analysis report; identify products that sell well in market that aren’t listed in store
• Tighter inventory control and reduction of out-of-stocks

Category management advisor

Merchandising Software helps identify products that are over or under stocked, increasing sales at the shelf and optimizing space. It also recommends category space adjustments, so each product, product type, brand and manufacturer, receives the optimum space allocation.

Furthermore; space allocation recommendations can also be based on category management objectives, for example, growing loyalty on a selected brand or considering market trends for growth products.

3D presentation & implementation

The 3D capabilities of Merchandising Software provide a realistic view of the fixture fully merchandised and can be exported to an image file for presentations, or printed.

Merchandising Software  allows users to print single or multiple bays, with outputs for saving as an image, pdf or publish to the web in HTML. The page layout can be designed with fixture views, merchandising reports and graphs, ready for implementation in store or for presentations.

The Merchandise Management System that Pays for Itself

Because GCTL’s merchandising management solutions are built on top of retail’s most accurate demand forecast, you’ll be able to remove uncertainty from your decision-making process.

By accounting for dozens of critical factors impacting demand for every SKU at every location (like seasonality, price elasticity, product cannibalization, competition) merchandising system will recommend what to stock, where to stock it, and when to bring it in to minimize costs and maximize profit.

About merchandising software

Merchandising Software is used by some of the world’s largest and sophisticated retailers and suppliers, for driving profits in store and within the category by designing optimized merchandised shelf and fixture plans that fit the store space. Merchandisers and retailers need a software program that will make shelf planning and range optimization reviews quick and easy, without compromising on retail design and and store planning. Our Merchandising Software is helping companies around the world creating and optimizing Plano grams to make their retail space more efficient and drive additional sales and profits. 

Merchandising capabilities

With Merchandising Software users can recreate all types of fixtures in minutes and start placing products to create optimized merchandised plans in a fraction of the time other applications take. Making changes like increasing or decreasing fixture sizes, moving bay positions, adding shelves or pegboards takes seconds, saving time for category analysis and space optimization.

Merchandising Software offers comprehensive, customizable reports and graph capabilities, driving category insights and actionable changes. Reports and graphs commonly used are; Space vs. sales for correct space allocation of products, brands and categories; gap analysis identifying missed sales opportunities within the category; merchandising reports for in store implementation and days of supply highlighting potential out of stock and wastage issues.

Why Merchandisers prefer our Merchandising Software

Merchandising Software is designed on an innovated platform dedicated for retail shelf planning and design, which means merchandising planning tasks that are normally time consuming and complex are made simple and easy within.

In addition helps maximize sales and profits for every inch of the shelf space, whilst identifying the best shelf positions for your brands and target products. Merchandising Software is a true category management tool, linking space and sales data to allocate the optimum space for each product, reducing out of stocks and wastage.

Software training & support

Retail Smart consultants provide necessary training on Merchandising and Plano gram Software, in order for users to be proficient in all areas of creating merchandised plans and analysis.

As part of annual maintenance payments, full support and software upgrades are provided, by our dedicated team of consultants.

Retail range assortment & space planning

Merchandising software is part of the retail range assortment and space planning software and solution. Once merchandised plans are created they can be automatically linked to Store Planning software to optimize retail store.

In addition merchandised plans can be linked automatically to Range Planner software to calculate the optimum range of products using ECR (Effective Consumer Response) proven category management methods.

Merchandising Software Solutions for Unified Retailing

No matter what ERP system, inventory software, or homegrown solutions your organization is using – We can easily plug into your data sources and analyze them with a single, underlying analytics platform.

This will give you unprecedented visibility and optimization power across silos.

For example, GCTL Infosys can help you predict the impact of a marketing promotion on inventory, and automatically generate POs to fulfill the increased demand levels.