The XPace Professional module contains all the functions of XPace Basic and adds functions for space management through analysis, optimization, versioning and shelf maintenance.
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shelf optimization
Story
The principle of space management was invented and first used about 25 years ago as part of category management in the food segment of the retail trade. The first programs were accordingly tailored to the needs of food assortments.
Our idea started here: Space Management should also be available for other market segments – Non-Food, DIY, media, toys, healthcare. These segments would also benefit from optimized planning, evaluation and documentation of shelf loading.
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Optimizing
Any shelf planning should meet the manufacturer’s and retailer’s sales and earnings expectations, be aligned with consumer demand and maintain appropriate inventory levels. The planning is not static, but is regularly revised for new requirements and performance indicators.
Motivation
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.
Modules
With XPace planogramming, each product will be positioned at the point-of-sale following logistical, financial, geometric, visual, and psychological aspects, taking space and time into account. XPace modules cover the various requirements of space management and planogramming.
XPace is available in the following modules
The modules differ due to the features provided:
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| Rack design: Create racks and shops, place and arrange products, basic reporting |
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| Rack optimization: Benchmarks, analyses, optimization, and extended reporting |
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| Deployment: Enterprise Server with web publishing and presentation |
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The feature overview outlines the references between main feature scopes and the XPace modules. You can upgrade to a more feature-rich package at any time.
Additional packages extend the functionality:
- XPace Mockup: Designing your own product displays
- XPace Queries: Queries for Assortment Planning
- XPace Kiosk: Kiosk systems and information terminals
- XPace Locate: Localization data for article searches in the market
- XPace Scripting: Automation through macros and rules
- XPace Metadata: Metadata management and release procedures
- XPace Elastics: Elastic deformation under weight load
- XPace Mandator: Multi-client capability
- and more…
Platforms
XPace runs on the following platforms and systems:
- Windows 32 bit
- Windows 64 bit
- Mac OS X 64bit
Data sources and file formats are identical and fully compatible for all modules and packages. XPace provides space management for heterogeneous environments.
Data Sources for Import and Export
Shelf planning is based on information that already exists elsewhere in the company: Data about products, fixtures, markets and shelves. In XPace Space Management, these informations meet to build concrete rack allocation plans. Graphic planograms and assembly lists are the basis for shelf construction in the real world. They are also used for documentation and communication and for the permanent development of the point-of-sale over time.
The data from shelf planning result in communication processes that provide the internal and external addressees of shelf planning with the necessary information. On the one hand, communication can take place in the classical way (sending e-mails of PDF reports or Excel tables), but today, actual planograming data should also be provided online on a server.
Other topics:
Use Cases • Features • Space Management Foundations
Space Management Foundations
As store space and shelf space are scarce and expensive, while the point-of-sale in the stationary specialist and retail trade is the decisive place for generating sales, shelf allocation needs to be very well planned and justified and regularly revised. A space management system provides the necessary functions and evaluation models for a practical shelf planning and an argumentation-strong shelf evaluation.
Communicate and deploy planning results
XPace provides you with analysis results, highlightings and key figures in exportable form or as a report in PDF format, as well as other output formats of lists and planograms.
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Show analyse results as color highlightings
XPace displays the results of an analysis in list form. You can export the data from the analysis and process it further using your own tools, for example, in Excel.
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Import performance data from Excel
Sales, turnover and other performance figures for products are the essential basic data for analyses, optimizations, inventory evaluations and for the creation of business key figures.
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