Planning Software for Retail

Get the answers you need

Easy-to-use what-if scenario capabilities allow you to change assumptions and immediately see the impact on your revenue, expenses, and cash flow. For example:

• If revenue is lower than expected, can we maintain our normal staffing levels?
• If the minimum wage rises, are all the stores still profitable?
• If sourcing costs increase, can we pass them on to our customers?

With Planning Maestro, you can:

Gain control over personnel expenses

• Plan personnel by job title or individual employee, applying fixed headcount and full-time equivalents that vary based on drivers such as sales, store count, website visits or walk-in traffic
• Accurately track payroll, payroll taxes, and fringe benefits for each employee or employee type

Create detailed revenue plans and forecasts

• Budget by chain, product line, district, location, or department
• Create detailed plans using key metrics such as sales, markdowns, gross margin, etc.
• Apply business drivers (pieces, units, cases, gallons, dozens, SKUs) to create revenue plan; adjust revenue forecasts solely by changing drivers
• Prepare bottom-up forecasts including detailed merchandise and store plans; make top-down adjustments to key business drivers such as demand before committing to final forecast numbers

Prepare for market fluctuations

• Perform what-if scenarios based on seasonality, economic conditions, promotion cycles, ramp-up of new stores, etc.

Streamline consolidation and reporting

• Create and disseminate detailed operational reports including payroll projections or product SKU revenue by season
• Centralize data consolidation from stores, districts, regions, and company level with instant, automatic consolidation of allocations
• Model new store planning, using assumptions such as store type, store location, and seasonality, creating a fully-loaded P&L, balance sheet and cash flow based on planned store openings