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12 In-Season Item Flow Task
The In-Season Item Flow step enables planners to monitor performance, adjust sales, and receipt plans during the active selling period. Unlike Pre-Season Item Flow, which focuses on initial plan creation, this step is centered on analyzing in-season performance using actualized data for elapsed periods and responding to emerging trends and business changes.
Planners review performance across key plan versions, including Working Plan (Wp), Original Plan (Op), Current Plan (Cp), and Last Year (Ly), to identify opportunities and risks. Based on this analysis, they update weekly sales and receipt plans for unelapsed periods, leveraging flexible aggregation through product attributes and store clusters to support efficient, datadriven decision-making.
Create In-Season Item Flow 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.
To create the In-Season Item Flow segment:
1. Click Assortment Services in the Task menu.
2. Select the Planning Services activity.
3. Select the In-Season Item Flow . 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 .
9. In Select Cluster Version , choose one cluster version and click Next . This defines the version of clustering for store aggregations as an alternate hierarchy.
10. Click Finish.
Step: In-Season Item Flow
The In-Season Item Flow step enables planners to monitor performance, adjust sales, and receipt plans during the active selling period.
In this step, planners analyze actual performance for elapsed periods and update weekly sales and receipt flows for unelapsed periods based on current trends, demand patterns, and business conditions. Using comparisons across Working Plan (Wp), Current Plan (Cp), Original Plan (Op), and Last Year (Ly), planners identify risks and opportunities and refine plans accordingly.
This step ensures that Item Flow remains aligned with real-time performance, inventory positions, and financial targets, supporting accurate and responsive in-season execution.
Tabs and Views in this Step:
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In-Season Item Flow Tab
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Trend Analysis View
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Refresh Item Flow View
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Adjust Weekly Flow View
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Reconcile to MFP View
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Approve Item Flow View
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Rollup and Admin Review Tab
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Trend Filters and Thresholds View
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Refresh Product Rollup View
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Refresh Location Rollup View
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Review Attributes View
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Review Admin Parameters View
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Application Actions
Update/Create Sales & Receipt Plan
Generates weekly sales and receipt unit recommendations based on defined Item Flow parameters.
Export Placeholders
Exports placeholder items for downstream processing, such as item creation or integration with external merchandising systems.
Refresh Rollup
Creates alternate hierarchies based on selected product and/or location attributes for aggregated analysis.
Approve Item Flow
Moves Working Plan (Wp) assortment to Current Plan (Cp) version.
In-Season Item Flow Tab
The In-Season Item Flow tab enables planners to analyze in-season performance and update weekly sales and receipt plans for unelapsed periods based on current trends and business conditions.
Trend Analysis View
The Trend Analysis view enables planners to evaluate in-season performance and identify trends, risks, and opportunities.
This view supports comparison across key plan versions, including Working Plan (Wp), Current Plan (Cp), Original Plan (Op), and Last Year (Ly), allowing planners to assess performance
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Assign Like Items during placeholder creation to enable downstream planning.
2. Select the appropriate measure profile:
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Default Profile for existing items.
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New Styles Profile for items without history or an existing plan.
3. For existing items (Default measure profile):
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a. Perform one of the following:
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Define Wp Sales Basis using picklist options (Trend to Op, Trend to Ly). Applies STD variance to unelapsed weeks for Wp Sales U.
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Adjust Wp Sales U to define updated sales for unelapsed periods. Changes will spread proportionally based on the existing sales curve.
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b. Update receipt parameters as needed (order frequency, presentation minimum, safety stock, minimum order quantity).
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c. Select Wp Update Sales & Receipt Plan Boolean measure.
4. For new items (New styles Measure Profile):
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a. Assign a Like Item using Add/Modify Position (DPM - Dynamic Position Maintenance) functionality, if needed.
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b. Define Wp Like Item Sales Basis (Op, Cp, Ly, or Wp Sales U).
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c. Define Wp Like Item Sales U var % to apply a percentage adjustment to the selected basis.
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d. Confirm Wp Use Like Item Receipt Param to copy receipt parameters from the like item (defaults to True).
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e. Or modify receipt parameters as needed (order frequency, presentation minimum, safety stock, minimum order quantity).
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f. Select Wp Create Sales & Receipt Plan Boolean measure.
5. Execute the Update/Create Sales & Receipt Plan application action to generate updated sales and receipt units.
Sales and receipts are recalculated for unelapsed periods only, based on defined inventory and receipt parameters.
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