Merchandise Planning Expert Resources

Our expert deep dive into the merchandise financial planning process, key capabilities, best practices common challenges, and innovations that can improve MFP capabilities

Clay Parnell and Amanda Astrologo outline the six focus areas and our insights for retailers from PI Apparel’s inaugural Merchandise Planning event.

We unpack three major challenges with AI, particularly when the expectation is to drive organizational collaboration and efficiencies in merchandise planning, pricing fulfillment, and operations

Parker Avery’s expert guide to retail planning outlines each planning area, including strategic, MFP, assortment, and item planning, and how they work together to accomplish a retailer’s strategic objectives

The Parker Avery Group’s definition and unique perspectives on integrated business planning, as well as common mistakes and challenges we see across both retail and CPG industries

Parker Avery outlines how redesigning planning, allocation, and replenishment create a more collaborative and effective organization

Our expert guide takes a deep dive into six inventory planning methods and Parker Avery’s recommendations for successful inventory planning

This wholesaler successfully integrated two newly acquired brands with upgrades to modern systems and unified business processes across the enterprise

Design and implement a new merchandise financial planning system with improved capabilities and tools to drive inventory efficiency and achieve gross profit improvement

Improved GMROI through on-demand visibility to existing inventory and enabling store order fulfillment across a specialty retailer’s multiple banners, over 900 stores, and distribution centers

Recommendations for a new integrated planning model and organization and selection of a planning solution to support aggressive international growth plans.

Streamlined merchandising and marketing business processes to improve internal collaboration and efficiencies, as well as support future system implementations

Deep dive evaluation of existing processes, systems, and organization, as well as the comprehensive design of new end-to-end planning capabilities and assessment of solutions to support the client’s vision

Design and execution of a new merchandise hierarchy resulting in substantially improved results across financial planning, assortment planning, and store allocation

Comprehensive MFP system implementation to optimize retail sales planning and inventory cost planning and enable a holistic, global view of the company

Widespread transformation of planning processes and capabilities to support strategic growth plans, standardize business processes, and improve key retail performance measurements

Designing the future process and evaluating a merchandising solution to enable strategic planning and enhance visibility into inventory across multiple channels

Parker Avery guided this global footwear retailer in assessing options and selecting a best-of-breed solution set to improve retail planning, allocation, and size/pack optimization capabilities

Designing and delivering a comprehensive merchandising training program to enhance merchandising team capabilities and support strategic initiatives

Program management and project support for a merchandising system transformation, encompassing merchandise planning, replenishment, and markdown systems

Parker Avery led the redesign and training for this popular outdoor retailer’s merchandising and planning organization based on cutting-edge merchandising practices.

Program management and industry expertise to support an international retail planning, forecasting, and replenishment transformation and expansion, encompassing multiple merchandising systems, processes, and teams

Articulation of a global, multi-channel planning strategy including innovative processes and a four-year roadmap for implementation

Leveraging deep industry knowledge to implement an MFP solution and deliver leading-practice future state capabilities, while enabling holistic views of inventory, gross margin, and sales

A roadmap and plan for the build out of an integrated planning organization, improved business process, and integrated planning solution

Designing and implementing new processes and a new planning calendar to improve visibility and achieve gross margin and inventory turn objectives.

During this interactive happy hour, we introduced Parker Avery’s planning maturity model and answered pressing questions about integrated business planning

Parker Avery’s retail experts discuss core retail functions focused on merchandise financial planning (MFP)

Our merchandise planning experts discuss how merchandise financial planning (MFP) has changed over the course of 2020 and how retailers need to adapt