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11 Cross Category Line Review Task
The Cross Category Line Review process enables retailers to plan assortments holistically by reflecting how customers shop for complete looks rather than isolated products. Customers often combine items across categories, such as dresses with shoes or tops with bottoms, so this process helps ensure assortments are coordinated to support cohesive shopping experiences, increase basket value, and improve merchandising decisions.
Without cross-category planning, assortments can become unbalanced. For example, planning tops without ensuring trouser availability may lead to missed sales, overstock in one category, understock in another, and a weaker customer experience. By aligning looks, color stories, and silhouette pairings across categories, this process helps retailers create a more complete and strategic assortments.
The Cross Category Line Review process enables planners to review assortments across multiple categories and evaluate assortment coordination, timing, and balance prior to final execution.
Create the Cross Category Line Review Segment
When working in a segment, it is a common practice to keep the wizard selections for the segment size limited to what will be worked on, to facilitate navigation and increase UI responsiveness. Assortment Plans must already be created for assorted options to populate in this workspace.
To create the Cross Category Line Review segment:
1. Click Assortment Services in the Task menu.
2. Select the Planning Services activity.
3. Select the Cross Category Line Review task. The Create New Plan dialog opens.
4. Click Create New Plan.
5. Enter a plan label and click OK.
6. In Select Calendar , choose the timeframe to review and click Next.
7. In Select Location , choose the locations to review and click Next.
8. In Select Product , choose one or more departments and click Next.
The wizard allows multiple departments to support comparison across products.
9. Click Finish.
Step: Cross Category Line Review
The Cross Category Line Review begins with selecting subclasses to use as filters. Since departments may contain multiple subclasses, planners can focus on specific product groups as needed. Once selected, the Cross Category Review visual displays images of assorted
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