Store planning software

About SPD

Store Plan Designer is used by some of the world’s largest and sophisticated retailers, for floor planning, resulting in more profitable stores. By linking your store selling space to sales and profits, SPD as a knowledge based solution delivers valuable insight on share of space, producing hot spot analysis, for actionable redistribution of space to maximise profits. Due to SPD’s intuitive design, even the most complex store planning procedures are made easy.

Store planning capabilities

SPD provides dimensionally accurate and reliable store plans. The store plans are fully merchandised by category and departments within the floor space of the store. SPD clearly shows how the store plan should be set out prior to new store openings, remodels and resets.

With SPD, store planners can recreate all types of store layouts in a fraction of the time traditional methods take. Once store plans are created, planograms maybe linked or automatically updated as part of the reset programme.

Planograms linked to store

Planograms are linked directly to the allocated category space, for further in depth analysis by brand or even at product level. After the planogram review and update processes have been completed, the revised planograms and product data are automatically updated in the store plan.

Analysis & insights

SPD delivers high impact reports to perform cross category and cross store analysis. Powerful space verses sales analysis are performed, using sales and profit data combined with departmental and category space allocations. These reports and analysis enable the accurate re-allocating of space during the re-planning process, optimising categories and increases store profits and sales.

Furthermore; store comparison reports help identify both high and low performing stores which is critical to maximising selling space. In addition SPD models a number of “what if” scenarios, comparing the impact of various stores, category or department layouts, enabling you to then deploy the best option.

3D store navigation

SPD’s innovative 3D store environment allows navigation of the new store layout. Before consumers shop your new store plan, you can navigate the aisles, testing your store design.

The 3D store provides valuable visual insights, into the perspective of a consumer, due to the aisle being fully merchandised with products found on the planogram.

The 3D view is an excellent decision making tool, for signoff or corrective planning.

Range & space planning solution

SPD store planning software is part of the Nexium range and space planning solution. During the store planning process, planograms manually created in MSA (Merchandising & Space Advisor) or planograms automatically created, displaying consumer centric ranges, using MSAX (Merchandising Space Automation) are automatically linked to the SPD (Store Plan Designer) to optimise your retail store space and add an additional level of micro analysis.

In addition planograms can be linked automatically to ATPRO (Assortment Target Professional), range assortment software which calculates the optimum range of products using ECR (Effective Consumer Response) proven category management methods.