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Retail Solutions
Master Information Suite
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Merchandising Business Suite
ibs CATEGORY MGMT.
ibs DEALS
ibs ASSORTMENT
ibs SPACE PLANNING
ibs PRICING
ibs PROMOTIONS
Supply Operation Suite
Info Suite
Ibs Assortment - the solution at the core of current retailers' problematic to optimize its position over the market.
The current economic context and new customer way of consumption force retailers to reappraise their assortment strategy. The complexity resides in managing an exponential number of references, the fluctuation of consumption trends and new retail channels (www, mobile…)

"Anticipate the clients expectations and put forward new offers in a growing competitive business environment by developing your market shares"

In addition, the consumers' awareness of retail price levels, offer alternative, brand image, product's ecological impacts, … inevitably pushes retailers to continuously strengthen their differentiation in order to preserve their positioning in the market.
"Anticipate instead of suffer from the market evolution"

Ibs Assortment provides retailers solutions to face current assortment challenges:
  • Defining a coherent product offer to satisfy consumer needs and follow their evolution.
  • Integrating retailer strategy and satisfy expected position among competitors (discounter, high quality image, private label extension…)
  • Ensuring the profitability of the offer, integrating products opportunities

Business benefits

Ibs Assortment improves the visibility, the coordination in the merchandise planning process and also the collaboration with trading partners. Based on the powerful MDM (Master Data Management ), ibs Assortment is fully integrated into ibs Suite and offers original and innovative solutions and services adapted to various retailers business.

"The right product at the right place, in right time, at right price, in right quantity"

ibs Assortment helps in increasing offer variety, competitor's differentiation, and customer loyalty. ibs Assortment ensures that assortments reflect consumer demand, market trends and company objectives.
It enhances the decision-making and management processes involved in assortments building. ibs Assortment also helps leveraging supplier negotiations by offering a better visibility of the competitor's situation, item selection, and suppliers and stores situations.

Ibs Assortment features: managing the assortment end-to end process
  • Decisional making support: Rely on a performing market analysis and retailer strategy analysis (both projected and current) in order to prepare in optimum conditions the retailers' collection plan

  • Assortment planning management: Planning your collections with product groups and clusters by taking into consideration key performance indicators: Assortment planning management.

  • Assortment building : Create and review your efficient and optimal assortment by making the best choices among the wide range of decision-oriented information with scenario simulation.

  • Stores Allocation and communication: Simulate and define the store assortment positioning by taking into account store specificities (formats, location, strategy, competitive environment…).
 
Maximizing your sales opportunities while minimizing your out of stock risk and maintaining margin levels: Ibs Assortment is your key to gain in reactivity, profitability and operational cost reduction