Retail planning

Optimize your retail mix. Meet shifting consumer demand.

AI-driven planning solutions to connect merchandise, assortment, and inventory strategies 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.

Synchronized strategy, planning, and execution across your retail business

Drive profitable growth with an AI-driven planning foundation that connects financial, merchandising, assortment, allocation, and supply chain decisions.

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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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.

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Merchandise financial planning

Accurately forecast sales to determine optimal financial targets.

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Assortment planning dashboard

Assortment planning

Perfect your mix with AI-driven forecasting and granular localization.

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Allocation and replenishment planning dashboard

Allocation and replenishment

Transform local demand insights into profitable inventory placement recommendations.

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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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It’s really important for us to be able to take a global view across different product segments, and we are able to do that with Anaplan.

Louis Wolmarans, Planning Systems Manager, Pepkor Speciality
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We're really able to get in the tool, develop something that is going to be game-changing for our team, as well as make huge impacts to our company's bottom line.

Ashley Hayes, Director of Sales and Inventory Planning, Rawlings
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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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Blog

Why your monthly retail planning meeting is holding you back

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Financializing retail decision-making

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On-demand webinar

Unpacking key trends shaping the future of retail

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Report

Why retail leaders are turning to connected finance for their transformation journey

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Blog

From big picture to granular detail: A layered approach to apparel forecasting

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On-demand webinar

Turn change into revenue and profit with merchandise financial planning

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