Efficient Item Assortment by Intactix
Key Capabilities of Efficient Item Assortment by Intactix®:

• Assortment implementation based on consumer demand data
• Master assortment lists generated at the push of a button
• Assortment decision management by exception
• Recommendation review enabling final decisions on adds, deletes and retains

Secure the future of your product categories by making JDA’s Efficient Item Assortment the cornerstone of your efficient item assortment (EIA) program. Efficient Item Assortment is a strategic knowledge-delivery solution that follows the industry’s best practice EIA procedure to streamline the analysis and decision making process inherent to category management. Within a category-planning environment, Efficient Item Assortment enables you and your trading partners to join forces and exploit your competitive advantages by optimizing product decisions and fueling category growth

Because it enables you to build category plans around your own business methodologies, Efficient Item Assortment holds the distinct advantage as the most flexible EIA solution on the market today. And, by enabling your corporate head office to focus its strategic attention on the category and distribute its corporate wisdom to the field, the field can perform tactical fine-tuning consistent with your corporate strategy. As a result, you can better align your target consumer, category roles and category performance goals. Your entire supply chain becomes more efficient, which translates into lower costs and increased productivity for everyone.

• Provides market-leading production and maintenance of planograms
• Supports optimization and analyzing of planograms against any metric (i.e., balance space to sales and/or days of supply)

Space Planning streamlines your execution of top-level category plans. This market-leading application helps retailers and manufacturers achieve the ultimate goal of cluster and store-specific assortment management: maximizing profits and extending customer loyalty by precisely placing the right products in the right positions at the right time – every time.  This tool provides access to unsurpassed visual reality for three-dimensional merchandising displays and advanced fixturing, helping you  develop planograms that reflect real world conditions, including custom fixtures and curved shelves, as well as slat walls complete with signs and textures.

• Serves as market-leading all-in-one floor planning tool
• Supports strategic allocation of space by department or category
• Provides space performance analytical support  
• Plans fixture capacity
• Models concept stores and destination categories before construction begins
• Enhances coordination between headquarters and the field

Floor Planning eliminates your guesswork in determining selling space effectiveness, compared to merchandise plans and strategic financial goals. Floor Planning maintains store floorplan accuracy as well as increasing store productivity. You’ll easily create and maintain precise store-specific floorplans that enable you to maximize the position, performance and layout of product categories on new and existing store floors – right from your desktop.

Floor Planning enables you to manage multiple floorplans concurrently. For increased efficiency, fixtures and segments are quickly added and replaced across all store or cluster floorplan sets. You can move entire fixtures at the same time, rather than in sections, making resetting an entire category a simple task. This solution also allows you to perform cross-category and cross-floorplan analyses to instantly compare the layouts of your best and least performing stores, which is critical to maximizing selling space effectiveness.

• Supports analysis of assortment-to-space metrics
• Enforces inventory modeling and merchandising rules
• Executes assortment decisions with available space

With a direct link to Space Planning by Intactix®, Shelf Assortment bridges the gap between strategic and tactical assortment decisions. While current best practices focus on strategic assortment decisions, you must make tactical decisions based on an understanding of available space and business needs. Shelf Assortment helps you create a master planogram that can be replicated in cut down versions as required, taking into consideration space limitations and efficiencies in addition to your inventory and merchandising requirements.

You’ll optimize assortment-to-shelf results with Shelf Assortment addressing your strategic assortment goals while responding to your floor and shelf space realities.

• Automated object life cycles help manage key business objects (products, planograms, floorplans and stores) over time
• Central datamart for storing merchandising data allows easy reporting across all planograms, floorplans, stores, etc. 
• Powers CategoryAdvisor for planogram analysis and development with integrated access to both planogram information and POS data

The industry-unique Intactix Knowledge Base (IKB) supports the business processes surrounding category management and provides the details necessary to drive planograms and fact-based product assortments and store clusters. Without requiring extensive customization, your system can be quickly installed and configured to supply the broad business content that you need to react to your space and assortment management challenges.
 
You can manage planograms, fixtures, floorplans, store and merchandise data, product dimensions, attributes and performance data with IKB’s powerful relational database environment. Plus, planogram exchange management and object-level access rules support collaboration between users in different organizations, enabling them to share and manage planograms. Trading partners can exchange, view and modify planograms while keeping original data elements intact.
 
“Click and Go” self-service reports enable you to pinpoint the number of stores stocking each product, which products comprise a particular planogram, and which planograms encompass each floorplan. You can also engage in web publishing and produce reports tailored to your specific business needs. Utilize IKB’s cross-planogram, store and floorplan analysis to verify planogram and product consistency as well as monitor key performance indicators. React to emerging market trends as you turn up-to-date business data into the market intelligence required to maximize ROI opportunities.
 
CategoryAdvisor: Driving Category Sales and Profits through More Intelligent Decision Making
Powered by Intactix Knowledge Base, CategoryAdvisor provides retail supplier teams with a robust platform for planogram creation and analysis with integration to retailer POS data. Tailor-made to fit the planogram process of your retail account, this easy-to-use analytical tool unlocks the hidden meanings often buried in the depths of your POS data. By integrating POS data with planograms, you ensure rapid access to current and consistent information needed for effective decision making and analysis across your categories. Your business decisions will be executed faster at the shelf and with greater insight, improving category optimization and effectiveness.

Space Automation by Intactix
Key Capabilities of Space Automation by Intactix®:

• Eliminates script writing duplication by allowing the modularization of scripts
• Adds menu commands to Space Planning by Intactix® and Floor Planning by Intactix® for easy script execution
• Imports financial data into planograms and floorplans
• Supports quick and easy data cleansing
• Creates business rule validation scripts that can verify planograms and floorplans

Using a business-level scripting tool, JDA makes it possible to automate day-to-day activities performed within Space Planning, Floor Planning and Intactix Knowledge Base®. Space Automation uses the same terminology as other space management applications making scripting easy to learn and understand. Combine repetitive tasks to eliminate errors, repetition and ensure data consistency. You can even perform large-scale batch processing and complete tasks while not at your computer.