8/8/2019 BWP_MAP

1/4

SAP RETAILMERCHANDISE AND

ASSORTMENT PLANNINGSAP Retail Merchandise and Assortment Planning (SAP RetailMAP) is the only fully integrated retail planning solution tobring together comprehensive, real-time performance metricswith powerful planning and simulation capabilities. Whatsmore, it delivers the ability not just to plan but also to execute.Assortments based on local customer preferences are easy tobuild and analyze, and you can profitably balance your mostcontrollable investment your merchandise inventory. Theresult is that finance, merchandising, store operations, and yourtrading partners are all planning and executing according to

common objectives.

AN END-TO-END SOLUTION

SAP Retail Merchandise and Assortment Planning brings effec-tive planning processes to your entire organization. And itextends beyond the four key areas strategic, location, mer-chandise, and assortment planning to link to markdownplanning, shelf optimization, style management, purchasing,and allocation capabilities. By connecting these planning and execution processes, you are ideally placed to maximize profitsand adapt quickly to changing market conditions.

Your planners and merchants

are focused on buying the

items your customers want,

but overstocks and out of

stocks lead to markdowns

and lost sales. Sound familiar?

By effectively anticipating

demand and sales, you can

increase margins and maxi-mize sales for each product

line. But you dont just need

accurate data; you need a way

of putting your plans into

practice.

mySAP Retail Brief

8/8/2019 BWP_MAP

2/4

From strategic decision making all the way through to the allo-cation of products to stores, SAP Retail Merchandise and Assortment Planning leads the way to seamless integration. Notonly can you create plans based on robust best practices, butyou also have the assurance that those plans will be executed asintended whether your retail merchandising system is mySAPRetail or from a third party. Designed to meet the challenges of a complex retail industry, SAP Retail MAP closes the gaps betweenanalysis, simulation, planning, and execution.

STRATEGIC PLANNING OPTIMIZE EVERY SALES

CHANNEL

If youre like many retailers, your store, catalog, and Web inven-tories are planned and managed independently. This makes itincreasingly difficult to set strategic business objectives thatdictate the direction of multichannel merchandising. SAP RetailMerchandise and Assortment Planning delivers data from asingle, central source and provides top management with thetools they need to make profitable decisions. You can createlong-term, companywide, and channel-specific strategic plansusing quantitative performance measures such as market share,sales growth, and overall profitability targets. When you have

found the winning strategy, you can cascade these plans downto lower levels for detailed merchandise, location, and assort-ment planning at the click of a mouse.

Designed to accommodate your planners busy schedules, SAPRetail Merchandise and Assortment Planning offers a Web-based workflow that accelerates the planning process from start tofinish. In addition, a monitor makes it possible to track the sta-tus of tasks throughout the planning cycle. At any time, youcan view whether a plan is in process, awaiting approval, beingrevised, or is finalized and approved.

LOCATION PLANNING COLLABORATIVELY PLAN FOR

FUTURE GROWTH

Store openings, closures, moves, and renovations are a part of

everyday life at your company. To ensure these investments aresound, data on regional marketing, competition, demographicshifts, preferences, and capacity considerations are essential. SAPRetail Merchandise and Assortment Planning allows seamlessintegration of corporate location plans into store managementplans, and vice versa. Store managers can submit their proposalsfor review and acceptance quickly and easily via a Web link. And by maintaining weekly sales and inventory plans by store, youcan identify and react to sales trends much earlier to make themost profitable use of merchandise inventory. Designed around industry best practices, these plans are geared to enhancingprofitability and maximizing sales.

STRATEGIC PLAN

MERCHANDISE

ASSORTMENT

SHELF OPTIMIZATION

MARKDOWN ALLOCATION

STYLES/COLORS PURCHASING/OTB

Integrated Merchandise and Assortment Planning

8/8/2019 BWP_MAP

3/4

8/8/2019 BWP_MAP

4/4

SAP AGNeurottstrae 1669190 WalldorfGermanyT +49/18 05/343424*F +49/18 05/343420** Subject to charge

www.sap.com

50 061 093 (03/01/13)

2003 by SAP AG. All rights reserved. SAP, mySAP, mySAP.com, and other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logosare trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and in several other countries all over the world. MarketSet and Enterprise Buyer are jointly ownedtrademarks of SAP AG and Commerce One. All other product and service names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies.Printed on environmentally friendly paper.

INTEGRATED PLANNING BENEFITS

With an integrated, end-to-end planning system, your companyreaps the rewards of putting plans into practice. The results willbe lower inventory levels, improved sales and margins, and satis-fied customers who have shopping experiences tailored to theirneeds.

For more information, contact:

Anne Rodey (Americas) +1 312-279-4534 Jordan Anderson (Americas) +1 312-279-4539Sabine Lankau (EMEA) +49 (0) 6894 981-1103 (Germany)

POWERFUL PLANNING CAPABILITIES Seed new plans with values from last year,

last season, or last month

Use long-range forecasting techniques that takeseasonality and recent trends into consideration

Plan units, cost, or retail in every currency

Roll up and roll down plans from any level

Use SAP Best Practices templates for fastertime-to-benefit

Analyze in-season plans on an exception basisusing automated alerts

Use open interfaces to control your merchandis-ing systems procurement/OTB, allocation,product creation, and markdown processes

Connect SAP Retail MAP to mySAP Retail forthe ultimate integrated retailing solution

Propose in-season markdowns automatically,based on business rules you define

Attach documents, including Microsoft Excel,PowerPoint, or CAD drawings, to any level ofthe plan

Let stores, field associates, and suppliers plancollaboratively using the Web-based front end

Help ensure 100% process compliance by usingbusiness workflow functions