Your team is in spreadsheet hell.
What is kohPlan?
Bridge the Gap
Ease the Pain
kohPlan is a merchandise financial planning application designed and developed for organizations rapidly growing and changing. It supports the forecasting of inventory, sales and profitability. At any level. Tailored to your business logic. At no additional cost.
It can be implemented very quickly and economically compared to the market. And we guarantee to meet the critical needs of your planning approach and process.
100% of what you need at a fraction of the cost. In a fraction of the time.
We have recognized the need for a planning capability that can bridge the gap.
For those smaller organizations that are growing but not ready to commit to a large investment in software.
Or the organization that is changing and its existing technology cannot support this change so quickly.
Or maybe you have a unique set of requirements that other vendors cannot easily support.
We will eliminate the multitude of spreadsheets, links and grind that is crippling the efficiency you so desperately need.
We will automate the actualization and initialization of your plan. And support the complex nature of your business and inventory movements.
We will facilitate the collaboration between the different levels of your planning organization.
We will provide the visibility you need to make the best decisions for your business.
What is kohPlan?
kohPlan is a merchandise financial planning application designed and developed for organizations rapidly growing and changing. It supports the forecasting of inventory, sales and profitability. At any level. Tailored to your business logic. At no additional cost.
It can be implemented very quickly and economically compared to the market. And we guarantee to meet the critical needs of your planning approach and process.
100% of what you need at a fraction of the cost. In a fraction of the time.
Bridge the Gap
We have recognized the need for a planning capability that can bridge the gap.
For those smaller organizations that are growing but not ready to commit to a large investment in software.
Or the organization that is changing and its existing technology cannot support this change so quickly.
Or maybe you have a unique set of requirements that other vendors cannot easily support.
Ease the Pain
We will eliminate the multitude of spreadsheets, links and grind that is crippling the efficiency you so desperately need.
We will automate the actualization and initialization of your plan. And support the complex nature of your business and inventory movements.
We will facilitate the collaboration between the different levels of your planning organization.
We will provide the visibility you need to make the best decisions for your business.
Multi-Dimensional
Using the database and infrastructure of your choice, our "schema" will support the dimensions and data that you use to run your business.
Flexible & Dynamic
Our mission is to provide features and functionality *that matter* to support your planning approach and process. With vision, creativity and speed.
You may be managing numerous customers or have multiple brands or banners.
Everyone is managing their brick & mortar stores differently than their online business or it might be important to plan your different clusters or locations.
You want to plan your different categories and even within categories you may want to plan seasons of product or by price status. Or, maybe you are in the business of planning events.
Our base solution can support up to 2 attributes in addition to your categories, or events.
This is where you may elect to manage a plan from “top-down” and “middle-out” to set targets and “bottom-up” to build the approved plan. We recognize that organizations operate very differently when it comes to roles and responsibilities and how this may translate to a planning solution.
Our base solution can support up to 3 Planner roles.
You want a version of the plan you will “work” with each and everyday and then “copy” to all those other versions that support your business process and calendar.
Every deployment expects to follow the versions of a plan important to your business (as many as you need)– at no additional expense.
We can structure and store your alternate hierarchies to support the different kinds of roll-ups you will want to see in reporting. Along the Organization, Calendar and Product Hierarchies.
Our base solution can support up to 7 alternate dimensions across each hierarchy.
We make administration of the solution simple and easy for those designated users of your Planning Organization.
This includes managing user privileges, master data, global approval of plans and reclassification activities.
Ok, if we had it our way we would use SQL Server on Azure (with SQL Server being a strong recommendation). But we know that some organizations have a preference based on what they already own and the kinds of security policies in place. And that’s fine, we can adapt. The important part is the structures and procedures we have developed to support the planning capability.
We know that your business has their own way of calculating things. And we can support that.
Every deployment expects to follow your own unique set of measures and expressions– at no additional expense.
We want to set your team up in the best possible position to start their plan. It might be using Last Year’s actual or some variation. We can support that.
We can’t support all the different ways of spreading that some solutions can, but we can support the critical ones that will save time for your team.
We encourage you to setup different “views” which can support the most common steps of your planning process. An administrator can do this “globally” and your seasoned planners can create their own.
We recognize that not all aspects of building and maintaining a plan can be supported within the framework of a planning solution and structure. So, we want you to be able to use the output from other tools you use to be seamlessly uploaded to your plan. Examples may be markdowns or receipts for collections of product that follow planned in and out dates.
We already know there will be opportunities for special functions which can make the planning process more efficient and effective. This is where we excel and are different than the competition. Smart. Fast. Cost-Effective.
We know that Reporting is a critical component of the planning process. We offer real-time updates in richly formatted, highly personalized reports. Don’t like our standard templates? That’s ok too. We can adapt to what you need. Vision. Creativity. Speed.
Our application has been developed with a .Net\.VSTO framework and uses Microsoft Excel as its interface for the end-user. We believe that by using Excel, we are providing the end-user with a very familiar and very powerful set of features and functionality. As a compliment, our application provides the appropriate menus, dimensions, measures and business logic that will support the organization’s planning approach and process.
Multi-Dimensional
Using the database and infrastructure of your choice, our "schema" will support the dimensions and data that you use to run your business.
You may be managing numerous customers or have multiple brands or banners.
Everyone is managing their brick & mortar stores differently than their online business or it might be important to plan your different clusters or locations.
You want to plan your different categories and even within categories you may want to plan seasons of product or by price status. Or, maybe you are in the business of planning events.
Our base solution can support up to 2 attributes in addition to your categories, or events.
This is where you may elect to manage a plan from “top-down” and “middle-out” to set targets and “bottom-up” to build the approved plan. We recognize that organizations operate very differently when it comes to roles and responsibilities and how this may translate to a planning solution.
Our base solution can support up to 3 Planner roles.
You want a version of the plan you will “work” with each and everyday and then “copy” to all those other versions that support your business process and calendar.
Every deployment expects to follow the versions of a plan important to your business (as many as you need)– at no additional expense.
We can structure and store your alternate hierarchies to support the different kinds of roll-ups you will want to see in reporting. Along the Organization, Calendar and Product Hierarchies.
Our base solution can support up to 7 alternate dimensions across each hierarchy.
We make administration of the solution simple and easy for those designated users of your Planning Organization.
This includes managing user privileges, master data, global approval of plans and reclassification activities.
Ok, if we had it our way we would use SQL Server on Azure (with SQL Server being a strong recommendation). But we know that some organizations have a preference based on what they already own and the kinds of security policies in place. And that’s fine, we can adapt. The important part is the structures and procedures we have developed to support the planning capability.
Flexible & Dynamic
Our mission is to provide features and functionality *that matter* to support your planning approach and process. With vision, creativity and speed.
We know that your business has their own way of calculating things. And we can support that.
Every deployment expects to follow your own unique set of measures and expressions– at no additional expense.
We want to set your team up in the best possible position to start their plan. It might be using Last Year’s actual or some variation. We can support that.
We can’t support all the different ways of spreading that some solutions can, but we can support the critical ones that will save time for your team.
We encourage you to setup different “views” which can support the most common steps of your planning process. An administrator can do this “globally” and your seasoned planners can create their own.
We recognize that not all aspects of building and maintaining a plan can be supported within the framework of a planning solution and structure. So, we want you to be able to use the output from other tools you use to be seamlessly uploaded to your plan. Examples may be markdowns or receipts for collections of product that follow planned in and out dates.
We already know there will be opportunities for special functions which can make the planning process more efficient and effective. This is where we excel and are different than the competition. Smart. Fast. Cost-Effective.
We know that Reporting is a critical component of the planning process. We offer real-time updates in richly formatted, highly personalized reports. Don’t like our standard templates? That’s ok too. We can adapt to what you need. Vision. Creativity. Speed.
Our application has been developed with a .Net\.VSTO framework and uses Microsoft Excel as its interface for the end-user. We believe that by using Excel, we are providing the end-user with a very familiar and very powerful set of features and functionality. As a compliment, our application provides the appropriate menus, dimensions, measures and business logic that will support the organization’s planning approach and process.
We Get It.
We know you know. There is no one-size-fits-all solution.
Yes, there are many “best practices” but the fact is, every business is different and has its fair share of nuances.
Organizationally, functionally and technically.
Really, Actually.
We believe that our solution and our approach can deliver a product that really, actually meets your needs.
We stand behind being able to deliver features and functionality that matter.
With vision, creativity and speed.