2025 Gartner® Market Guide for Retail Merchandise Financial Planning

As a retail leader, you need the ability to make accurate, data-driven merchandising decisions that are aligned with your company’s inventory, margin and financial goals. A merchandise financial planning (MFP) solution helps retailers align high-level financial goals with detailed buying and inventory plans.

While spreadsheet-based MFP may still be common, Gartner recommends that merchandisers, “…move from spreadsheet-based planning and define the requirements on a joint project to source an AI-driven MFP solution to deliver a fully optimized, multichannel planning strategy.”

Read your complimentary copy of the Market Guide for Retail Merchandise Financial Planning today to see how we believe it can help frame the landscape of merchandising digital transformation decisions. Discover how to harness powerful AI/ML and predictive analytics to generate reliable, demand-driven financial plans, increasing inventory productivity and profitability. 

Gartner, Inc. Market Guide for Retail Merchandise Financial Planning. Jonathan Kutner. February 10, 2025.   

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