XPace Space Management is based on a series of concepts that cover all steps of planogramming, from shelf planning, shelf evaluation, versioning and restructuring to documentation – even for complex, non-linear situations.
Know How
Geometric modelling for products and fixtures
Products on a shelf are not always just rectangular boxes. Products can also have a complex, three-dimensional shape. These 3D models should be mappable in a space management software, they also influence the space requirements of the products on the shelf. XPace can generate such forms itself or process standard formats (OBJ, WRL, X3D).
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Colors and color models
In XPace, colors can be specified for parts and products in the data sets, e.g. during creation with XPace Mockup, and can be assigned individually for positioned objects in a planogram. Colors are defined using color specifications, which can be either color names, CSS color specifications or RAL colors.
Actual take-up of products and shelves
Nowadays, EAN/UPC/GTIN barcodes can be found on virtually every article in the trade business. The scanners in the POS systems use the barcodes for the price lookup (PLU) and for inventory management. If data is to be collected from an existing shelf in a store, the barcodes can be used for article recognition and shelf positioning.
Four core questions of Space Management
Retailers and their suppliers carefully plan shelves for a sales room in the specialist or retail trade: Spacemanagement builds up a shelf of product carriers and fills it with products, applying an assortment strategy and optimizing inventory quantities.
Space Management Myths
In the discussion about shelf planning, space management and space optimization, arguments that tend to have the character of myths keep coming up. We want to examine these statements here and help to debunk myths and replace them with facts.
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A simple script: Hello World
Scripts can automate shelf processing with XPace. Routine activities can then be carried out at the touch of a button, and entire workflows for updating shelves and reporting become child’s play with a good script.
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How to import product data
Space management is based on positioning and arranging articles on the product carrier fixtures of a shelf. To do this, the data of the articles must first be made known to the program. So you need a product data import.
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Strategic Foundations of Space Management
As part of trade marketing, shelf planning and space management considers both sales and earnings targets (Return on Inventory Investment) as well as inventory management and the delivery strategy for the shelf to avoid out-of-stock situations.
We have compiled the most important elements of a space management strategy in an overview article:
Space Management Foundations
As store space and shelf space are scarce and expensive, while the point-of-sale in stationary retail is the decisive place for generating sales, shelf allocation needs to be very well planned and justified and regularly revised.
Which strategies are pursued, which measures are applied in order to optimise the point-of-sale inventory, with the best possible market area profitability and in line with consumer requirements?
Use Cases
For which business models and application profiles is XPace particularly suitable? Which questions are focused by XPace?
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