Planning
Planning
For many retailers planning comprises numerous complex, inter-related spread sheets; often ‘bound’ to a single person. They are time consuming to maintain week to week and season to season, and difficult to evolve with changing business needs and conditions. For businesses who have invested in a planning system, they are often so unwieldy as to be un-maintainable. Risk of failure is high, with personnel changes crippling the planning process.
Arena’s Planning module integrates and aligns the disparate parts of your planning process into a single, seamless, integrated solution. Our planning solution is configured to match your exact requirements and can even replicate your current spread sheet models. Custom workflows ensure that your planning process is mandated regardless of personnel changes. Tight integration with the Arena business intelligence framework eliminates manual data entry, and ensures reporting and planning is aligned.
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We use spreadsheets because I can’t find a planning solution that works the way we work.
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Implement a planning solution that meets your exact requirements using the Arena planning framework.
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Different components of my plan are maintained by different people in the organization using spreadsheets. They are not integrated, and it is difficult to manage the process and ensure consistency.
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Create workflows to manage the planning process, to alert planners to their specific tasks, to implement approvals, and to seamlessly integrate all levels of the plan top down and bottom up. Completely eliminate the need for re-keying.
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We have a planning solution but it is too complex to maintain and manage.
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Implement Arena Planning, which guarantees simplicity and manageability regardless of the size of your team or their skills.
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With Arena Planning, you will have the first iteration of your planning processes within weeks. Users can try it out, and we work together until your solution is just right. Changes are immediately visible in the live environment, making implementation fast and accurate; and ensuring a solution that can evolve with your business.
As with all our modules, Arena Planning is designed to interlink and enhance the capabilities of each other part of the Arena solution.
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