Merchandise Financial Planning
Discover how leading retailers align financial targets with inventory strategies — reducing markdowns, improving turnover, and planning with confidence.
- Merchandise Financial Planning
Modern Merchandising Starts with a Smarter Plan
Merchandising today is a complex balancing act of financial goals, evolving customer behavior, and operational realities.
Blue Yonder's MFP ensures your product strategy is grounded in real-world financial targets and constraints, then brings it to life with intelligent forecasting, AI-guided planning, and automated workflows that can flex as the market shifts.
reduction in markdown-driven margin erosion
improvement in forecast accuracy
increase in inventory turnover
Connecting inventory strategy to financial outcomes efficiently, and at scale
Always-Synced Planning
Stay aligned across financial, merchandise, allocation, and assortment plans with workflows that react automatically to changes in performance, inventory, or strategy. Event-driven updates ensure that top-down, bottom-up, and in-season plans stay connected—eliminating delays, manual reconciliation, and misalignment.
Smarter Plan Starts
Kick off plans in minutes, not days. AI-driven seeding generates both top-down and bottom-up plans using historical data, product attributes, and embedded constraints—so planners can move straight into analysis and optimization.
Scenario Modeling at Scale
Test multiple variables—promotions, pricing, store expansions, vendor shifts—at the same time. Scenario modeling reveals the financial and operational impact of each path so planners can choose the most profitable course of action with confidence.
Live, Intelligent Forecasting
Continuously refine forecasts using live data streams and external drivers like events, weather, and trends. These AI-powered insights feed directly into planning workflows—improving accuracy, reducing bias, and helping teams react sooner.
Dynamic OTB Control
Adjust inventory investments on the fly based on performance, sell-through, and availability. Automated OTB recalibration keeps capital focused on products that are moving—maximizing returns and minimizing overstock.
What you can achieve with Blue Yonder
Cut manual work, focus on what matters
Automate plan creation, reconciliation, and updates so your team spends less time on spreadsheets — and more time making decisions that drive growth and margin.
Protect profitability in volatile markets
Blue Yonder flags potential risks early — before they hit your bottom line. Optimize markdowns, adapt to shifts in demand, and keep inventory strategies aligned to margin goals across all channels.
Speed up decisions without sacrificing accuracy
Use real-time data and automated planning tools to make faster, more informed decisions. Adjust open-to-buy, promotions, and inventory investments instantly to stay ahead of the market.
Everyone benefits from smarter orchestration
Chief Merchandising Officer
Take faster, data-backed actions that drive category performance and profitability.
Optimize assortments and investments with AI-powered category insights
Margin-Driven Decisioning
Improve margin with smarter pricing, forecasting, and inventory alignment
Aligned, Accelerated Execution
Speed up decisions across teams by working from a unified, real-time plan
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