3 Ways One Door Streamlines Basic Tasks for Space Planners

By Cathy Weldon | December 9, 2019

As a space planner, your goal is to get the right product in the right store at the right time.

Maximizing every square foot of retail space with localized assortments is your mantra.

Finding that perfect formula for how space is allocated – from category management to shelf space efficiency – is your bread and butter.

Today’s advanced data aggregation tools and space analytics are helping you understand your customers’ shopping habits better than ever so that you can create the most profitable retail space possible.

But all that data is creating exponentially more work for you.

The relentless localization demand means you’re creating 10-100 more planograms today than you were even five months ago.

One Door’s end-to-end planogramming software lets you plan, coordinate, communicate, and automate all your space planning tasks in one place.

Get more done in less time.

You know how time-consuming it is to create localized planograms for each store, and you know how frequently those plans have to be reset (often at the 11th Hour).

By the time you set up plans around the unique footprints for each space, and manually input localized assortments using PDFs or Excel spreadsheets, you already missed the boat on responding to what your customers want right now.

One Door’s platform lets you automatically place and update content on planograms, eliminating hours of repetitive planogramming. One Door’s micro-planning capabilities accelerate planogram creation by 5-8x, allowing you to get products to stores 20% faster.

Optimize inventory and space.

Planning a 6-foot shampoo shelf with 8 feet of product is as wasteful as sending an endcap of sunblock to Minneapolis in February.

Optimizing space for each store takes serious collaboration between your space planning, visual merchandising, category manager teams, and your supply chain.

Having an end-to-end solution, like One Door, allows for seamless coordination across teams to better match what the data is telling you with which products you should place on the shelf.

Imagine having the ability to communicate with vendors and stores all in one centralized platform. It would give you the ability to accurately calculate production quantities to avoid mark-downs or sold-out inventory.

Learn from your data with better compliance tracking.

You put countless hours into your merchandising plans. You labor over space allocation, assortment decisions, and placement, but how do you know your decisions are working?

Compliance tracking that’s integrated into a visual merchandising platform gives you invaluable insight into what’s happening on the shelves in real time.

One Door’s platform has compliance tracking and photo galleries built in, enabling store teams to track and measure compliance with merchandising standards.

Having insight into what’s selling right now empowers you to make better decisions on allocating products and reacting to customer behavior faster.

Antiquated space planning processes that use PDFs and spreadsheets, and disparate pieces of technology only slow you down.

They force you to do menial, repetitive planogramming tasks to keep up with the demand when what you need is more time so that you can focus on a higher-level space planning strategy.

One Door automates all this for you, so you can get to the important work at hand – getting the perfect products for your customers where they want them when they want them.

Are you ready for space planning automation? Click here to learn more about how One Door can help complement your space planning strategy.