Retail planning

Optimize your retail mix. Meet shifting consumer demand.

AI-infused scenario modeling and analysis solutions to connect merchandising, assortment, and allocation plans across your retail enterprise.

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Retail Planning dashboard comparing sales targets to long-range and finance plans across Womens, Mens, and Home categories. Includes bar chart visualizations, margin and inventory targets, approval and revision indicators, and status icons by segment.

Retail profitability starts with
strategic planning

Drive stronger retail enterprise value enabled by best-in-class solutions and applications for agile planning and forecasting.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Retail AI-Driven Assortment Planning Solutions 2025 Vendor Assessment

Anaplan has been named a Major Player for being highly effective at layering its capabilities in addition to existing solutions for enhanced results across an end-to-end assortment planning ecosystem.

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IDC MarketScape excerpt on retail assortment planning. Document highlights Anaplan as a major player in the 2025 vendor assessment for worldwide AI-driven assortment planning solutions.

Get the right product to the right place at the right time

Integrate your essential retail planning functions across geographies and channels to maximize value while addressing revenue loss at its source.

Dashboard highlighting planned vs. actual sales, class and subclass performance, and sales performance by product. Includes metrics for inventory, forecasts, and visual alert for forecast variance.

Merchandise financial planning

Accurately forecast sales, manage your inventory, and align product assortment to deliver against financial targets.

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Assortment Planning Dashboard displaying active assortments and underperforming items. Includes sales and sell-through metrics, images of products, and alert indicators for performance variance and inventory analysis.

Assortment planning

Optimize your assortment to shifting demand and focus on turning inventory to boost sales and profitability.

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Allocation & Replenishment Dashboard showing in-season sales monitoring by subclass and channel. Includes tables for forecast and actual sales units, variance to plan, and a summary with alert bar chart by week.

Allocation and replenishment

Synchronize store and channel allocation with replenishment, demand sensing, and merchandising.

300+ top retailers plan with Anaplan

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Our data is showing that we’ve removed approximately four to six days of inventory from our supply chain.

Wade Latham, Senior Director of Operations, Carter’s
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One of the clear benefits that I see is the forecast accuracy — this has helped us have the right stock level throughout all our sites.

Magnus Tagtstrom, Senior Director of Supply Chain Optimization, Circle K
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Adapting to change is just a matter of building a new Anaplan model.

Corporate Treasurer, Prestige Beauty Retailer
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Anaplan helps us bring this all together and have one central point, one central repository where people can go see, understand, and take action quickly and efficiently.

Andrew Brightmore, Executive Director, Foodbuy at Compass Group Australia

Featured resources

Best practices and valuable insights to help you improve retail performance across your enterprise.

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Report

Why retail leaders are making the shift to connected finance

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Blog

Your inventory is ruining your business: How merchandise financial planning will help

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Datasheet

Anaplan for Merchandising

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On-demand webinar

Turn change into revenue and profit with merchandise financial planning

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Report

Forrester Research: The Retail Planning Platforms Landscape, Q3 2023

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Datasheet

Nordstrom transforms supply chain planning

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Leading retail brands around the world rely on Anaplan to build a modern, connected enterprise. Shouldn’t you?

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