Enterprise Planning for retail
Turn consumer spending patterns into smarter merchandise, assortment, and replenishment plans—aligning product strategy to customers’ needs. Increase profitability and accelerate digital transformation with the Board Enterprise Planning Platform.
The key to driving retail performance.
Unify retail planning
Break through the limits of static and siloed planning processes. Deploy a unified model to make data-driven merchandising, assortment, and inventory decisions.
Take a consumer-centric approach
Turn consumer behaviors into strategic insights. Optimize your assortment strategy—aligning product requirements with customers’ needs market-by-market.
Increase efficiency across all channels
Tackle omnichannel challenges by aligning merchandise financial planning with supply chain. Leverage external demand signals to improve forecasts.
Drive profitability
Optimize merchandising strategies across channels and formats—maximizing profits while maintaining flexibility in an evolving market.
Maximize responsiveness
Plan and identify the most effective distribution of inventory. Maximize availability, revenue, and customer satisfaction.
Ensure flexibility
Improve inventory flexibility and achieve perfect control over pre-season and in-season allocations while ensuring profitability and high customer service.
Merchandiser Agent: Built for how merchandising decisions are really made.
Supports merchandising teams by coordinating demand, inventory, margin, and cost-to-serve signals in one continuous decision environment—so trade-offs are clear, priorities are focused, and merchants stay in control.
Decision confidence, not automation.
Helps merchandisers maintain a complete, accurate view of margin by continuously bringing together demand, inventory, cost-to-serve, and financial goals. By coordinating these inputs in context, it makes the full commercial and operational impact of decisions visible at the point of choice—helping teams manage volume and complexity while supporting confident product, inventory, and buying decisions across channels and categories.
Rather than replacing merchant judgement, the Merchandiser Agent strengthens it—supporting continuous planning, shared understanding, and better decisions as conditions change.
Built for merchandising use cases that matter.
Inventory & Availability
Continuously manages daily decision volume by tracking inventory health, sell-through, and availability across channels and fulfilment options. It identifies stock imbalances and prioritises WSSI, allocation, and replenishment decisions that protect availability while balancing margin impact, sales opportunity, and inventory exposure across merchandising, supply, and finance.
Merchandise & Buy Planning
Continuously aligns financial targets with merchandise performance by tracking sales, margin, and inventory against plan. It provides fast, accurate decision support across merchandise, channel, OTB, and line plans, helping merchants balance intake margin, gross margin, and inventory productivity with financial guardrails applied before execution.
Assortment Planning
Advises localisation and ongoing assortment adjustment by evaluating customer behaviour, store demand patterns, and local selling dynamics. It enables seasonless planning through rolling assortments, helping merchants make informed trade-offs between customer relevance, complexity, margin contribution, and cost-to-serve.
Planning is one of the most difficult capabilities to land successfully. When we were looking for a solution provider, it was clear that Board would be right for us because of its flexibility, and our teams instantly became comfortable with the user interface they would be working with.
Retail planning solutions that accelerate profitability and growth.
MERCHANDISE FINANCIAL PLANNING
Master merchandising with efficiency and accuracy.
Make smart, customer-centric decisions and optimize product mix, profitability, and operations with Board Merchandise Financial Planning.
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ASSORTMENT PLANNING
Dynamically align assortment plans to your customers.
Optimize assortments with precision and agility and align your merchandising to meet evolving customer needs.
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ALLOCATION AND REPLENISHMENT
Take control with intelligent allocation and replenishment.
Boost your bottom line with every stock decision. The Board allocation and replenishment solution empowers you to hit sales, inventory, and markdown goals every season, every time.
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RETAIL DEMAND PLANNING
Ace inventory decisions.
Optimize inventory, react to trends, and maximize profitability with data-led precision.
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OPEN-TO-BUY/WSSI
Make every season a success.
Break free from guesswork and achieve more with the Board OTB solution.
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Built for a continuous planning experience.
All our planning solutions converge on the Board Enterprise Planning Platform to help you make confident, aligned decisions. They transform your planning process by accelerating time to value, driving cost effectiveness, and reducing risk.
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FAQs
Board’s retail planning solutions replicate a retailer’s full operating model – customer, inventory, revenue, and SG&A – within one connected platform. They provide governance and control at the strategic and financial level while maximising agility across merchandising and supply-chain planning. With a single version of truth, teams collaborate on shared targets, adapt faster to change, and turn every decision – from strategy to shelf – into measurable, confident performance.
Board enables retailers to plan and trade with precision across stores, regions, and channels. Continuous assortment sensing and AI-driven clustering adapt plans in real time to customer behaviour and market shifts. By connecting customer signals with financial and merchandising data, Board allows teams to localize assortments, optimise depth and breadth, and protect margin – ensuring every product decision aligns to true demand and drives growth.
AI in Board is embedded throughout every planning layer – from forecasting to allocation to scenario modelling. Machine-learning engines analyse internal and external signals to predict demand, pricing, and stock risk. Planners can test scenarios instantly and act on explainable insights. This blend of automation and visibility improves forecast accuracy by up to 15 %, accelerates in-season response, and enables confident, data-driven decisions that balance creativity and profit.
Board connects seamlessly with ERP, PLM, POS, CRM, and data-lake systems through open APIs and pre-built connectors, creating a single version of truth without heavy IT lift. This interoperability preserves existing investments while enabling a unified data model. Retailers gain collaboration across finance, merchandising, and supply chain, faster deployments, and scalable architecture – modernising at their own pace while evolving a connected, governed planning ecosystem.
Board combines enterprise-grade configurability with intuitive design. Retailers can tailor models, workflows, and views to fit existing processes – without coding or third-party integrators. A modern, Excel-like interface speeds adoption for business users while ensuring governance for IT. The result is flexibility without complexity: planners work faster, teams collaborate easily, and the platform evolves with the business to support continuous planning and innovation.
Board delivers impact within months: up to 30 % markdown reduction, 8-12 % lower inventory holding costs, and 10-15 % improvement in forecast accuracy. Unified visibility enables better open-to-buy control, higher full-price sell-through, and faster in-season re-planning. By connecting strategic, financial, and operational plans, Board gives retailers confidence in every decision – turning alignment and agility into measurable margin, efficiency, and growth.
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