SimpleFi Solutions offers the below pre-packaged solution to get you started with Margin Planning for Retail on SAC – Prepackaged Solution . We offer both quick start programs and small-to-medium pre-packaged managed implementations. Reach out to [email protected] for more information.

Solution Goals:
- Facilitate the planning process flow among departments using SAC launchpads
- Provide an integrated Sales and Margin Planning environment for Merchandising, Store Operations, Marketing and Finance
- Provide the ability to collaborate on decisions and easily create forecast scenarios that can be shared across departments
- Provides automated calculations for new vs. comp store reporting using store operations and closure dates
- Financial reporting and publication
- Project Metrics (typical):
- Reduce efforts by 30%
- Industries – Retail
Business Problem:
- Disconnected Sales and Margin Planning between functional areas like merchandising, store operations, etc.
- Difficulty planning and allocating to a daily view
- Manual process to calculate for new vs. comp store financials

SimpleFi Accelerator Includes:
- Target setting template
- Merchandising plan template
- Product focused
- Plan by fiscal period or week
- Units plan
- Average Unit. Retail
- Average Unit Cost
- Automated Sales Calculation
- Built Inverse functionality to plan Margin by $ or GM %
- Store Operations template
- Store focused Sales and Units by Day
- Planning for new store based on comparative store results
- Marketing / Promotions template
- Financial Reports
- Automated Comp Store calculation
- Pre-Built Report Formats
- Merchandising plan template


Solutions Perquisites
- SAP Analytics Cloud Planning Licenses
- Data, Connections
- HANA connector / install to broker connection between systems
What’s Included
- Model, Calculations, Templates
- Sample Data Set
How do you deploy the solution?
- Consulting Services
- Deployment, Training
- Infrastructure, Managed projects (Design, Delivery, Deployment), standard training and enablement
- Customizations
- Dimension / Templates – adjust per your structures
- Process – adjust to your business requirements