Successful implementation of space management in your company means installing XPace shelf planning software on your own PCs and providing the data for products and fixtures. Data from external systems and sources is reused via interfaces. The implementation may be carried out on local and mobile computers as well as been controlled by a central server.
In a planogramming project, certain steps are taken to create a qualified shelf plan that best meets the objectives of the project. XPace follows the 4Q strategy with four questions: What – How much – Where – Why and implements the planogramming functions in its methodology.
Space Management aims to provide the right products in the right quantity at the right place on a limited sales area. The motivation behind: A shelf allocation at the point-of-sale only works well if it is very well planned and justified and revised regularly.
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.
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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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.
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.
When making a purchase decision at the point of sale, the consumer is often left alone with questions about the products: “Where can the product be found in the store?” might be the most frequent question here. The consumer can now get the answer on his smartphone or tablet.
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.
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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