SAS Pack Optimization, a component of the SAS Merchandise Intelligence suite of solutions, enables you to leverage assortment plans, size profiles, and supply chain expenses to build optimal pack strategies at each of your selling locations. Through the use of instructor-led demonstrations and student exercises that use a standard data set and basic work flow scenario, this end-user course is designed to provide you with the knowledge and hands-on skills needed to use SAS Pack Optimization efficiently and effectively within your retail organization.

Learn how to

• describe the components of a purchase order plan
• define the scope and configuration parameters used to create a purchase order plan
• manage planned quantities and disaggregated quantities
• review and adjust purchase order plan buys and deliveries
• optimize, approve, and submit purchase order plans
• review, interpret, and refine optimization results.

Who should attend
Business users of SAS Pack Optimization (including allocators, planners, and other merchants), as well as SAS consultants involved in implementing this solution

Formats available	Standard duration
Classroom:	2.0 days

Before attending this course, you should have

• basic Microsoft Windows proficiency
• an understanding of buying, planning and allocation processes within retail organizations.

This course addresses SAS Size Optimization software.

• about SAS Size Optimization
• learning preparation and focus
• SAS Pack Optimization overview
• SAS Pack Optimization terms and process flow

• opening the application
• navigating in the solution

• overview of a purchase order plan
• creating a purchase order plan
• viewing purchase order plans
• managing purchase order plans
• disaggregating planned quantities

• optimizing a purchase order plan
• working with optimization results
• approving a purchase order plan
• submitting a purchase order plan

• overview of plan modifications
• modifying pack settings
• modifiying request settings
• modifying disaggregated quantiites

• defining default pack settings
• defining delivery types
• working with pack optimization products
• creating a purchase order plan manually
• adjusting purchase order quantities

• defining default settings
• creating product and location groups
• building a color profile
• creating model members

• handling product re-classification
• purging product and location data
• using logging features
• entering default parameters

• introduction to XML file creation
• XML import file composition
• specifying size sets in the import file
• using attributes to specify locations
• specifying model members
• specifying delivery types
• store level import of planned quantities
• additonal topics

• course sumnmary
• learning survey
• additional help resources