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

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