The iX Advanced Retail Planning solution (iX ARP) brings together a comprehensive retail planning and execution software in one inclusive package. iX ARP aligns merchandise execution decisions with store-specific consumer demand signals. iX Advanced Retail Planning provides a workflow-based planning solution, giving you all the capabilities required to successfully manage the retail merchandising cycle down to individual roles and responsibilities.

"Bringing traditional top-down planning activities together with bottom-up demand details to create better planning models and more effective merchandising execution - all in a single integrated workflow."

iX Retail Planning differs from traditional planning systems in a number of significant ways:

• Flexible decisison making workflows. Role-based workflow functionality that supports reconciliations across all channels, hierarchy levels, and planning elements. Ability for retailers to model workflows to meet individual user demands using iX Configurator.
  
  
• Science-based planning at any detailed level along with demand intelligence. Ability to plan at the store/sku level and applying it to any merchandising decision making.
  
  
• Planning for execution. iX supports the complete merchandising cycle, including auto-generation of assortments, pro forma purchase orders, and time phased pre-allocation plans across stores and items.
  
  
• iX is a non-invasive enabler of existing legacy systems. iX can integrate to any existing planning systems, transactional hosts, or back end databases. iX leverages and extends current investment in systems and people.

With the iX ARP solution, Nexgenix has created an open and component based approach to embedding a planning engine and analytics into a Web Based infrastructure. The infrastructure within the iX ARP solution allows the analysis of key business indicators "in line" with business processes as they are happening. iX ARP's systemic architecture enables an unusually high degree of solution compliance to your specific business needs and processes.

iX ARP delivers in a single integrated workflow an 'out of the box' fast implementation planning environment that includes these major components;

• Strategic planning (seasonal goal setting)
• Merchandise financial planning to week level
• Location planning to item/week level
• Key item Planning to week level
• OTB planning multi-variable linked to source ERP data
• Supplier Planning to item/week level
• Store Planning
• Attribute Planning
• Assortment Planning
• Allocation/Replenishment
• PO Planning
• Monitoring with alerts and exception reporting