Oracle Retail Assortment Planning Cloud Service helps retailers decide which products to offer, and in what breadth and depth, across commerce locations and defined periods. Assortments can specify attributes such as color, fragrance, flavor and size. AI Foundation generates recommendations aligned with business objectives; visual planning gives planners a near-real-time shopping view to review assortments, override suggestions, prepare a high-level buy plan and approve selections. Demand Transference forecasts the sales effect of adding, removing or swapping items, supporting optimization against selected KPIs. Item Planning covers pre-season and in-season work, including reforecasting and subclass-level open-to-buy reconciliation. Dashboards analyze sales, gross margin, sell-through and in-season exceptions. The web service connects with Retail Insights, retail merchandising systems, AI Foundation, Merchandise Financial Planning Cloud Service, and Assortment and Space Optimization. It supports file-based interfaces, standard exports and flat-file transfers through Object Storage. Oracle describes it as cloud-native SaaS on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Autonomous Data Warehouse. Pricing is on request.
Who it is for
It suits retail planners responsible for creating assortments and sales and receipt plans, as well as planning administrators. Its documented inputs include location and product hierarchies, forecasts, inventory, prices, sales, costs and financial plans.
What is good
- AI Foundation generates business-aligned recommendations
- Visual planning supports review and approval
- Forecasts sales effects of item changes
- Dashboards analyze sales, margin and sell-through
What to know first
- Pricing is available on request
- Requires location, product and calendar hierarchies
- Planning inputs include forecasts, inventory, prices and costs
Verdict
The service brings assortment recommendations, visual planning, demand transference and item planning together for retail assortment decisions. Its fit depends on having the documented planning inputs and connected retail systems.
Get started with Oracle Retail Assortment Planning Cloud Service
- Visit the Oracle Retail Assortment Planning website.
- Use the web service.
- Request pricing from Oracle.
- Prepare the documented location, product, and calendar hierarchies and planning data.
- Use the Planner or Planning Administrator role.
Questions about Oracle Retail Assortment Planning Cloud Service
How is Oracle Retail Assortment Planning Cloud Service priced?
Pricing is on request.
Which platform does it support?
The listed platform is web.
What does the service help plan?
It establishes assortment breadth and depth, including color, fragrance, flavor, and size, for commerce locations and defined periods.
Which roles are documented?
Planner and Planning Administrator. The planner is responsible for creating assortments and sales and receipt plans.
What data can planning use?
Documented inputs include location, product, and calendar hierarchies; attributes; merchandise financial plans; forecasts; last-year data; inventory; prices; sales; costs; and curve libraries.
What integrations and data exchange options are available?
Integrations connect to Retail Insights, Retail Merchandising Foundation Cloud Service or similar systems, AI Foundation, Merchandise Financial Planning Cloud Service, and Assortment and Space Optimization. Data exchange includes file-based interfaces, standard exports, and flat-file transfers through Object Storage.
Oracle Retail Assortment Planning Cloud Service plans and pricing
All plansCompared on retail pricing software
- Assortment planning
- Yes
- Product hierarchy
- Yes
