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Join Invent Analytics and Planalytics for a webinar designed to equip retail professionals with actionable strategies for navigating the unpredictable terrain of weather-based demand volatility.  

Understanding customer desires and timing is crucial in the retail industry. However, one of the primary challenges of forecasting is the unpredictable nature of weather and how its fluctuations significantly influence consumer behavior. From heatwaves boosting sales of summer essentials to unexpected cold snaps escalating the need for warm apparel, these variations can disrupt even the most carefully crafted inventory strategies.

Explore the intersection of retail inventory optimization and predictive demand analytics in an exclusive webinar hosted by Invent Analytics and Planalytics. The event will feature strategies for enhancing supply chain operations and inventory management through expert insights into weather-driven analytics. Join us to gain a deeper understanding of the specific challenges supply chain and planning teams face due to weather’s influence on consumer behavior patterns. 

Speakers

• Amy Wolf, Planning and Allocation Manager   
• Evan Gold, EVP Global Partnerships & Alliances     

Sales results and earnings reports for the crucial Q4 period and retail 2023 are in, and the important spring season is now upon us. Join industry analysts from RetSci and Planalytics to look at the current state of retail and the opportunities/risks confronting companies today.  

Topics include:

• Q4 results and the key themes that emerged
• Factors influencing consumer spending
• Spring insights and weather-driven demand outlook

Speakers:

• Meg Galgano, Senior Director of Business Consulting     
• Evan Gold, EVP Global Partnerships & Alliances     

Join Planalytics and ToolsGroup on Thursday, December 14, at 11 a.m. EST.

Co-Presenters

• Evan Gold, EVP Global Partnerships & Alliances, Planalytics
• Brett Bever, VP of Technical Sales Consulting, ToolsGroup

Heatwaves, polar vortexes, snowstorms, hurricanes, and routine weather volatility will always present a challenge for retailers and brands. The extreme events amplify the traffic and sales swings that are already caused by everyday changes in the weather (a few degrees warmer or cooler, rain vs. sunny skies, etc.).  Planning for the demand variability is no easy task given that the weather and its sales impacts rarely repeat from year-to-year across products and markets and often change significantly on a daily basis. This webinar shares how incorporating Planalytics’ weather-driven demand analytics into ToolsGroup solutions improve planning accuracy, boost sales by reducing out-of-stocks, and grow margins by minimizing inventory-related costs. Join us to see how applying historical and predictive weather-driven demand adjustments at scale within ToolsGroup enhances planning, allocation, replenishment, reporting, and more.

Andrew Gartner, Vice President of Business Development from Planalytics will be speaking at this year’s SAP Industry Cloud Innovation Morning at Home House, London on 7 June 2023 starting at 8:45 am.

We’re looking forward to an exclusive morning of industry insights, networking opportunities, and breakfast with Industry Cloud partners to discuss some of the most current cutting edge solutions.

If you are interested in learning more about Planalytics or weather-driven demand analytics, contact David Frieberg, dfrieberg@planalytics.com or visit our website to schedule a time to meet during the event.

View additional event info here.

Learn more about the Planalytics|SAP partnership. 

Planalytics will be featured at this year’s SAP Sapphire & ASUG Annual Conference from May 16 – 17, at the Orange County Conference Center in Orlando, Florida. 

If you are interested in learning more about weather-driven demand analytics or Planalytics and would like to schedule a time to meet up at the conference, contact dfrieberg@planalytics.com or contact us.

Learn more about the Planalytics|SAP partnership. 

View additional event info here.

Planalytics will be sponsoring and attending this year’s Blue Yonder ICON 2023 conference from May 2 – 5, in Mandalay Bay Resort, Las Vegas.

If you are interested in learning more about weather-driven demand analytics or Planalytics and would like to schedule a time to meet up at the conference, contact dfrieberg@planalytics.com or Contact Us.

Learn more about the Planalytics|Blue Yonder partnership. 

View additional event info here.

Join Planalytics and the National Retail Federation on Thursday, December 8, at 2 p.m. EST for a discussion of the current retail landscape and a preview of how we expect weather to influence consumers and drive demand during the upcoming 2022 holiday shopping season.

Co-Presenters

• Evan Gold, EVP, Global Partnerships & Alliances, Planalytics
• Katherine Cullen, Senior Director, Retail and Consumer Insights, NRF

Planalytics will be sponsoring and attending this year’s Blue Yonder ICON on May 23 – 25, 2022 in Orlando, Florida/ Virtual.

If you are interested in learning more or would like to schedule a time to meetup online during the conference, please contact dfrieberg@planalytics.com or Contact Us.

View additional event info here.

FIT’s Predictive Analytics for Retail and Fashion Certificate Program is an interactive 6-week course (June 14 – July 26, 2021, skips July 5th) that covers analytics techniques applied to retail and fashion-related industries. The course contains lectures, discussions, and case studies involving analytical techniques that can be applied to retail and fashion business scenarios. Both the analytics and business side of all calculations and techniques will be discussed. How these techniques are used and why they make sense for a business are woven together throughout the course.

You will learn how to analyze demand and retail data and how components such as seasonality, trend, and weather affect the data. You will apply statistical techniques to predict forecasts and measure their accuracy. In an extended case study for weather analytics, you will analyze the effect of weather on business data. For this you will work directly with visiting industry experts from Planalytics.

You will develop the ability to analyze inventory management decisions using the tools of statistics and probability and gain facility in decision making under uncertainty. This course will involve hands-on use of common spreadsheet tools with many specific applications involving demand, seasonality, trend, forecasting, tracking, lost sales, lead time, safety stock, promotions, advertising, pricing, and markdowns. Emphasis will be on common analytical techniques that can be leveraged for any business situation.

Planalytics’ Mohan Anand, Senior Director, Value Engineering and Strategic Analytics and Evan Gold, EVP, Global Partnerships and Alliances are presenting and will be part of the program.

*PLEASE NOTE: this is a Fashion Institute of Technology program.