With automation, central planning teams can create a high volume of accurate planograms adapted to store needs. This is true, and it is the reason that automation is the other necessary component in this process. “Creating hundreds or even thousands of store-specific planograms is impossible!”
The answer is store-specific planograms, enabling assortment, inventory, and space allocation variations to meet each store’s needs. When managing a category across hundreds or thousands of store locations and a diverse set of customers, how can you get the benefits of central planning while also adapting to store-specific needs-without defaulting to planning based on averages?
