Display Planning
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The Card Manager Display Planning module is used to create the initial
Stock Control Display Plan, at Price & Caption level, and to produce the presentation
documentation sent to your Customer. This may consist of (Colour coded) Rack Plans with or without Images, Ticket
check sheets, and Sales force installation guides etc... |
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The Display may be either created manually, on-line using drag
& drop, by keyboard entry, or by Pasting from a spreadsheet or scanned design list and can refer to your Model product line to ensure that
no over planning takes place. By utilising the Display Planning Extension Module, Card
Manager can automatically produce a suggested Display Mix, providing a summary of the
number of pockets at price & caption level, which will fill a specified size of
display based on a predetermined model line. This suggested Display Mix may then be placed
on the Racks using drag & drop, or Card Manager can if requested actually place the
suggested display mix on to the Racks, leaving you merely to adjust the edges of the
caption areas to ensure that the overlap is clean, and the shape is what you require. No
fully automated system can plan a Stock Control Display with the same degree of expertise
which an experienced Display Planner can provide, but it can generate a huge number of
pretty good Displays in a very short time, which may then be hand tailored at a later
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When planning pockets you may specify a "Preferred
Design" so that when Tickets are serviced, a specific design will be used in a
pre-determined pocket, provided that the Design is in stock. Once the preferred design
goes out of stock the Ticket Processing module can select inventory in the normal manner, based upon Card Design performance within the individual store, or you may specify that only the preferred design may be used.
When planning at design level you may also take into account the product 'Owner' to allow Brokerage Planning. |
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Plans may be created as either a bespoke Customer Display, as
a Standard Plan, or as an Operator Model, and the system will notify you, if required,
when you plan any pockets in excess of your Model line. Any number of Model lines may be
maintained within the system for reference, and when planning a Display, if you wish to
allocate Participants as you go along, rather than have Card Manager automatically
allocate Participants over the whole Display, then you can request that each Participant
is referenced to their own Model Line for the purposes of ensuring that no over planning
takes place... |
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All plans are worked on using the Rack Designer screens which allow pockets to be updated on a drag & drop basis, either from the database of price / captions, or from another Display or Rack. The Rack Designer can track on screen details of average retail prices at all levels, and can restrict the usage of any participant to reflect the content of their own Model line if required. As the pockets are dropped onto a rack, the Rack Designer keeps track for you of the width allocated by tier, and adjusts the width of the pockets on screen to reflect their respective sizes in relationship to other pockets. Pocket numbers are automatically generated using your own numbering system profile, as you drop each new pocket. If required your best selling designs may be automatically allocated to pockets at the time the rack is planned... |
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Captions may be colour coded for ease of use on the screen,
and this colour coding may also be carried forward to appear on Customer, and Sales force
Rack Plans and installation guides... |
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A Standard Plan is intended to be kept on file as a part of
the library of Displays for future use, an Operator Model is created as a template for a
Display using the automatic options of the Suggested Display Mix sub-module, and a
Customer Display is the final personalised Display which is documented to the Customer,
and which is serviced with Inventory.
Customer Displays and Standard Plans may be created from each other, or from an Operator
model... |
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