SAS^® Intelligent Planning

SAS^® Intelligent Planning allows retail and CPG organizations to accurately anticipate customer demand and create integrated financial, assortment, and demand plans based on demand signals for where, how, and when demand is generated across all channels.

Powered by the SAS^® Viya^®platform, the solution enables quick response as demand changes to deliver a consistent customer experience while providing optimized planning and analytics across the enterprise.

SAS Intelligent Planning is comprised of the following products:

• SAS Assortment Planning generates recommended allocation quantities for each selling location to which you ship a specific product or group of products.
• SAS Financial Planning sets merchandise financial goals based on stores' past, present, and future demand. It can quickly respond to emerging business trends to maximize inventory investments and reduce liabilities.
• SAS Demand Planning predicts and plans demand in an omni-channel consumer market. It manages the changes (discontinuance, predecessor and successor relation, and introduction of new product) that occur in the product life cycle in the forecasting process.