SAS Intelligent Planning Suite

What SAS Intelligent Planning Suite is

SAS Intelligent Planning Suite is a retail merchandise planning system for omnichannel business strategy. It forecasts shopper and consumer demand to support merchandise, assortment, and financial planning. SAS Demand Planning models products and selling locations with a statistical forecasting engine and integrates with SAS Visual Forecasting and SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning. SAS Assortment Planning creates localized assortments based on consumer and trade-area demand and supports unlimited dimensions. SAS Financial Planning helps set merchandise financial goals, control spending, and optimize inventory investments through intelligent open-to-buy. The suite applies machine learning and other advanced analytics to demand forecasting. Automated, low-touch workflows support exception-based planning intended to reduce errors and human forecast bias. Demand Planning has a cloud-ready open API design. The suite is available through web and API platforms, with a linked free trial; SAS describes a 14-day Viya Enterprise trial. Pricing is on request.