Space Optimisation
 
Aldata's Apollo Space Optimisation is a collection of powerful, easy-to-use software solutions that give customers the ability to automate planogram production while enabling consistent, accurate execution of category plans and new product launches at any required granular level. All of the solution's components can be adapted to fit specific retailer or manufacturer needs.
 
With the Apollo Space Optimisation suite, strategic collaboration between retailers and manufacturers can be implemented throughout the category management process, ensuring that merchandising strategies are implemented and retail operations are optimised. The result is the ability to:
  • Drive high availability levels and reduce lost sales
  • Achieve high levels of customer satisfaction by tailoring assortments
  • Reduce costs by minimising waste and in-store mark downs
  • Ensure planogram-to-store accuracy and merchandising compliance
  • Drive rapid ROI with an affordable solution that can be live within days
 
Aldata's Apollo Space and Assortment Optimisation is the market leader in space planning and is used by more than 300 retailers globally. Retailers are able to improve the retail space planning process utilising advanced merchandising rules, category assortments, performance criteria, and space constraints.

Aldata's Apollo Space Optimisation suite provides all the tools and resources necessary for retailers and manufacturers to improve performance and get ahead in an increasingly competitive market.
 
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Aldata Cosmic's Assortment Optimisation solution allows manufacturers to fully automate and dramatically improve the category management process. By analysing market and customer data and then assessing retailer performance at an aggregate or detailed level, Aldata Assortment Optimisation identifies categories that are under or over-performing. Opportunities for improvement are then identified, and recommendations are made for optimising assortments and correctly balancing distribution. The solution also calculates the impact on sales for every proposed change. Uniquely the catman solutions are designed by category managers for category managers.
 
The results are dramatic. Manufacturers using Aldata Assortment Optimisation are able to improve category sales by 5% to 25% and reduce the time required to complete category management reviews by as much as 80%. Because of increases in efficiency, reviews can be undertaken daily if desired, allowing you to quickly and easily identify incremental sales opportunities on a continual basis.
 
The solution areas include:
  • Category and Range Planning
  • Customer, Account, and Brand Profitability
  • Promotional Evaluation
  • Forecasting and Planning
  • Data Consolidation and Analysis
  • Support and Training
 
 
         

 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
     

 

 

Dramatically Improve Macro Space Planning and Increase Sales Throughout the Store with Aldata's Apollo Total Store Aldata's Apollo Total Store is a practical, comprehensive store layout planning and analysis software solution that dramatically improves the retail space planning process.
 
The solution provides tools for analysing store layouts and planning space usage at the macro level, giving you a clear picture of product and category performance within the aisles and departments of specific stores.
 
Increase Shopper Satisfaction, Turns, and Sales Aldata's Apollo Total Store offers all the critical store mapping and measurement capabilities required to make informed store layout decisions, resulting in floor plans that maximise position, performance, and layout categories.
 
The solution will allow you to:
  • Efficiently and effectively create and maintain store layouts
  • Optimise the position, performance and layout of merchandise categories
  • Align store layouts with category management initiatives
  • Get a clear picture of store performance from advanced reporting and analytics
  • Quickly execute planogram and SKU level changes
  • Reduce investments in capital equipment
Aldata's Apollo Total Store is a proven solution that enables you to implement highly effective retail sales strategies.
 
 
 
         

 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Today, more than 70 percent of a category's sales occur at the shelf. Companies are more aware of the need to make category management decisions pay where it counts. Aldata's Apollo Space Optimisation suite helps maximise every centimetre of space and improve category performance and customer reach.
 
Used by thousands of space planners worldwide, Aldata's Apollo Manual Suite enables you to create and analyse planograms. The space management solution gives you the power to not only build virtual planograms that realistically and accurately represent retail space but also to evaluate and optimise planograms through a "what-if" process.
 
Apollo Space Manual Suite also offers comprehensive, customisable reporting capabilities that allow you to quickly and easily translate complex business data into user-friendly reports that can easily be tailored by audience. Reports can also be distributed via email, web, screen, or hard copy.
 
To meet the needs of all types of users, Apollo Space Management is available in three license levels:
  • APOLLO PROFESSIONAL  - Designed for space planners and category managers in corporate headquarters
  • APOLLO BRIEFCASE - A streamlined version of the solution designed for field sales professionals
  • APOLLO LITE - A customisable, low-cost tool used to capture shelf data and create, modify and execute planograms in the store
 
 
         

 
 

  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Dramatically Improve the Retail Space Planning Process with Aldata's Apollo Designer Workstation
 
Aldata's Apollo Space Planning is the market leader in space automation and optimisation.
 
Aldata's Apollo Designer Workstation dramatically improves the retail space planning process by reducing the time required to generate planograms. Using your current space planning software, Designer Workstation delivers allocated, customised planograms that optimise store-level shelf space utilisation, allowing you to decrease planogram creation time, increase sales by as much as 25% per category, and reduce shelf capacity caused by out of stocks by up to 40%. Customers using Designer Workstation typically achieve full return on investment in months not years.
 
Aldata's Apollo Designer Workstation allows you to model the shelf and eliminate unproductive inventory, select optimal planograms and generate higher profitability. It will give you the power to:
  • Effectively and efficiently implement retail merchandising strategies
  • Optimise space utilisation and ensure the right merchandising and stock levels are in place.
  • Generate planograms quickly and easily
  • Increase assortment relevance
  • Collaborate with retail and manufacturing partners to optimise category performance
 
 

         

 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Quickly and Easily Distribute the Right Planograms to the Right Staff, 100% of the Time with Aldata's Apollo Web Publisher.
 
Aldata's Apollo Web Publisher is a comprehensive planogram and data management software tool that provides access to planograms at anytime from any where that Internet or intranet access is available. 
 
The solution will enable you to:
  • View the most up-to-date planogram information on-demand
  • Access planograms and new item reports using any standard web browser
  • Tailor planogram views for suppliers, partners, and stores
  • Attach planogram files, merchandising memos or other documents to planogram views
  • Automatically publish planograms on a calendar schedule
  • Automate the planogram and data publishing process
Aldata's Apollo Web Publisher allows you to can ensure that planograms are implemented correctly, quickly communicate changes, and maximise the effectiveness of your sales strategies.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Planogram Manager provides a unified data source for all planogram information that allows analysts and business managers to have an open view of their organisations planogram universe. The tool provides a variety of quick and effective cross planogram and store analysis, meaning better decisions are made faster. Planogram Manager utilises fast and easy tools that allow data consistency across stores, categories, products, and images ensuring the right product is in the right place at the right time.
 
The most effective planogram administration tool around, Planogram Manager allows multiple section maintenance within a database system.