- Continuous store optimization
- Integration of store planning & merchandising
- Implementation of central standards using a flexible catalog concept
- Web-based cooperation between the retailer and the shop fitter
- Rapid fulfillment of change cycles
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Category Management
Flexible categorization systems can be set up in P'X5 for classifying assortments of goods. The classification tree in P'X5 can map its own commodity group hierarchies or standard categories, e.g. from GS1.
Lean and Comprehensive Store Planning
The P'X5 Store Solution is an integrated planning environment that links merchandising and store planning, and efficiently supports the entire planning process between the retailer, store planner, and shop fitting system manufacturer.
Continuous Space and Assortment Optimization
The P'X5 Store Solution provides the retailer with an integrated planning environment, which efficiently links shop fitting, planning of the furnishings, and presentation of the goods. The P'X5 Store Solution manages sales outlets for retail chains in expansion planning as well as in ongoing operations.
Using intelligent libraries, you can create concept catalogs, which cover the entire design process, from the configuration of complex furnishing modules, decorative features and product displays, to the collection of goods. Simply drag furnishing and equipment modules and planograms from the catalog and drop them onto the ground plan of the store.
The 3D visualization improves the quality of communication between the category manager, visual merchandiser, and store planner. You can instantly calculate and analyse categories of goods, articles, and equipment parts lists with regard to quantity, costs, square meters, running meters, and shelf meters, and thus design the retail environment while optimizing your retail space and assortment at the same time. You can also calculate energy consumption and operating costs for cooling elements. Consequently, P'X5 integrates merchandising and the presentation of goods in one efficient optimization process.
Constant Improvement in Planning and Procurement Processes
By integrating merchandising and store planning, P'X5 effectively masters the challenges of rapidly changing product environments and theme worlds.
Because of local spatial conditions and different customer requirements, no two stores are identical. Store concepts are not only influenced by the surface area and turnover, but also by other factors, such as location (city center, urban agglomeration, rural area), spending power, age, or cultural make-up of the customers. Competitors and local conditions, such as available parking, proximity to a football stadium, and so on, must also be considered.
Even though the retail industry's downward price pressure forces standardisation, a degree of differentiation is required to enable companies to set themselves apart from their competitors. This balancing act can increasingly only be performed in detailed planning for each individual store. The P'X5 Store Solution concurrently supports central strategies (store concepts, standard furnishing elements, assortment criteria) and local adaptations in the detailed planning process.
Store-Specific Detailed Planning
In P'X5, the assortment, presentation of goods, and brand values are controlled through the central provision of reusable 3D planning modules for shelving elements, product displays, decorative features, and planograms in the form of concept catalogs. Simply drag the modules from the catalogs and drop them onto the store area, thereby automatically defining product display plans, order parts lists, space details, and planograms.
You can quickly create a variety of designs for the visual selling concept (visual merchandising) with the optimized arrangement of the shelving areas. Requirements specified by Category Management are mapped with the allocation of commodity group classifications to spaces, product displays, and assortment elements. The 3D display clearly improves cross-departmental communication and coordination processes. As a result, the timescale for planning the opening of new stores and for making image adaptations is reduced considerably.
Precise Details for the Planning of each Store
- Space usage for zones and store displays
- Material parts list for product displays and shelving system elements
- List of signs, sales aids, and decorative materials
- Square meters, running meters, and shelf meters per category of goods
- Goods requirements and sales value of the goods
- Article parts list for filling in goods
You can continuously compare your planning with your targets (space characteristics, assortment clusters) to optimize usage studies and aesthetic considerations on the basis of measurable criteria.
Central Control and Optimization of Store Concepts
Through spatial analyses across all stores, the retailer receives precise basic data for identifying the actual merchandise requirements, ensuring that Purchasing carries the exact quantities. Changes to the assortment and to product displays by Category Management can be generated on an automated basis, per store, as planograms and as assembly instructions. With the P'X5 Store Solution, centrally coordinated product and customer experience changes are implemented efficiently and at short notice. The continuous optimization of the planning and procurement processes runs in tandem with the control of store design and goods presentation. By coupling the planning data from P'X5 with the operational inventory management data from the ERP, the strategic development, store concept, and operational implementation can be continuously refined on the basis of detailed "real-time" data.
Efficient Cooperation
The P'X5 Store Solution is a collaborative business software that efficiently supports the retailer's cross-departmental cooperation (category management, store planning, purchasing, selling), as well as the cross-company cooperation between the retail chain, store planner, and shop fitting system manufacturer/supplier throughout the entire planning process.
The central element in this cooperation is the exchange of catalogs, which can be further enhanced at every stage in the process. Suppliers and shop fitting system manufacturers can use P'X5 to compile catalogs of spare parts and assemblies, mapping the specific requirements of a country, partner, or customer to articles from the suppliers' and manufacturers' own product range. The store planner or architect (external or internal) then compiles the modules of the shop fitting concept from the elements contained in the various catalogs. Missing product elements or individual designs can be specified in P'X5 using configurable "generic" elements (e.g. for basic furniture, shelves, cooling elements) and added to the catalog. Special structures from the CAD system can be imported by drag & drop, provided with article information, and added to the catalog. The retailer uses the shop fitting concept catalog to plan the equipment and furnishings and, where necessary, can also compile an assortment catalog, product-display fittings catalog, and planogram catalog in order to design the presentation of goods in detail.
Concept Catalogs from Suppliers
The P'X5 Sales Configurator provides system manufacturers of highly varied products with powerful functions for setting up concept catalogs as projects. Catalog elements can be either distinctive individual parts or configured aggregates which can be assigned customer-specific catalog designations and prices.
Catalogs can be created as concept quotes in PDF format and exported electronically as 3D concept catalogs for partners and customers, for use in P'X5. Modules, which are used by P'X5 concept catalogs in planning, contain correct parts list information to ensure that suppliers receive verified orders, thereby facilitating lean order processing.
Assortment Modules Specify Commodity Group or Individual Article Design
In P'X5, collections and assortments can also be mapped with concept catalogs, in a relatively abstract way via 3D placeholders for commodity groups or in detail for individual articles with a corresponding product view. You can quickly create representations of products and decorative elements, such as signs, by dragging and dropping images (photos, packaging views) and using them directly in your planning.
Assortment catalogs should preferably be designed together with the product displays, so that the planogram and product display design form a single planning unit. By using integrated assortment modules, containing the product display design and the arrangement of the goods, P'X5 planogram changes can be automatically transferred to the stores by Category Management, enabling existing product displays and stocks to be adapted without the need for manual repetitive work.
P'X5 manages usage lists for planned modules across all stores, enabling the fitting and positioning of brackets or hooks for each module feature to be tracked via assortment adaptations. The changes can be reproduced per store and can be accepted, rejected, or changed individually.
Automatic Export of Planograms
Both overall views and individual planograms, per running meter of gondola/shelving, can be generated for each store as a PDF document based on the P'X5 planning data. This means, that the sales staff has access to easy-to-follow documents with visual instructions on how to place goods in product displays.
