Dear GA,

I am looking for a store planning software. The software will be used
to plan about 100 new stores and to improve an existing 1'000 retail
outlets in 30 countries.

It would be great if you could find 5 great vendors of Retail planning
software, please provide the following information:
Short description of the software
Vendor name
URL
Vendor Address
Telephone number & sales contact name
Approximate price-level per licence

Regards,
tornell



PS: As a clarification of what I am looking for I have added the following example:

http://www.jda.com/s_FloorPlanning.asp
Floor space is one of your most valuable and limited commodities. You
absolutely must optimize its use to fully maximize your organization?s
profits.
When looking for a store planning solution, look no further than Floor
Planning by Intactix?. Used by winning retailers throughout the world
to maintain store floor plan accuracy and increase store productivity,
Floor Planning eliminates the guesswork involved in determining
selling space effectiveness in relationship to merchandise
performance. Floor Planning allows you to easily and efficiently
create and maintain precise store-specific floor plans that enable you
to maximize the position, performance, and layout of product
categories on new and existing store floors ? right from the desktop!
Product features include virtual reality 3D walkthroughs, reporting,
highlighting and analysis, as well as seamless connectivity to Space
Planning, which facilitates the integration of the floor planning
processes into one, streamlined effort.
With Floor Planning you can:
Model concept stores and destination categories before construction begins 
Enhance coordination between headquarters and the field 
Drive the fixture ordering process 
Optimize category flow 
Manage category adjacency rules 
Maximize promotional space effectiveness

Hello, tornell-ga! 

 The fact that your question has remained unanswered is evidence of
how few software packages seem to meet your needs. I have to confess I
have searched long and hard over the course of two days and these
software solutions are all I have managed to find. There is a lot of
shelf-stocking planogram software, but that is not what you seem to
require, according to the example you provided. Please take a look at
what I have found. Pricing is rarely available for these products so
you will need to contact the vendor.


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CAPTUREPLAN
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http://www.captureplan.com.au/home/index.html


Capture Plan Interactive Store Plan
http://www.captureplan.com.au/home/prodmap.html


StorePlan
http://www.captureplan.com.au/home/storeplan.html

"A CAD, PDF, JPEG or a handdrawn sketch of a store's layout is all
that is required for StorePlan to generate an interactive floor plan.
Planograms, market data, fixture information and more can be imported
by StorePlan for detailed space analysis, adjacency planning, store
mapping and a host of other store plan related requirements.
CapturePlan Outputs - Access planogram information from any authorised
web portal, work with retailing partners to ensure that your range is
working for you at a store specific or clustered level. View store
maps online, and load with the retail data required.  Analyse data
across a store or across a cluster. Use heat map overlays to visualise
the opportunities in existing and proposed store layouts. Select any
bay to view the attached planogram."

 Brochure for StorePlan
 http://www.captureplan.com.au/home/extras/pdf/products/StorePlan.pdf


All Products
http://www.captureplan.com.au/home/downloads.html

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Contact Information
http://www.captureplan.com.au/home/contact.html

55 / 148 Chesterville Road
Moorabbin VIC 3189
Australia
Phone (+61 3) 9017 4968
Fax (+61 3) 9555 8687
Phone 1300 851 231 (Local Call Australia Only)

General E-mail Address: info@captureplan.com.au

Or fill out contact form

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Pricing - You will need to contact the vendor.




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ADVANCED VISUAL TECHNOLOGY
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"Founded in 1997, Advanced Visual Technology is a United Kingdom-based
company that provides the retail industry with a unique visual space
planning solution called Retail FOCUS. Retail FOCUS unites
merchandising, store planning, construction, operation and inventory
management into CAD-based floor plans to produce a seamless flow of
store-specific merchandising information and an accurate capture and
analysis of fixture data, allocated space and adjacencies. Efficient
execution of merchandising initiatives, accurate, dynamic floor plans
which trigger fact-based layout decision and a higher return per
square foot are some of the benefits Retail FOCUS offers. With
satisfied customers across the world, Retail FOCUS is a proven global
success.
http://www.avtretail.com/about_avt.asp

"Integrated Floor Planning, Optimization & Execution Solutions for the
Retail Industry. Our products link the traditional merchandising
function with those of store planning, construction, operation and
inventory management.  The result is a seamless flow of store specific
merchandising information, delivering accurate capture and analyses of
fixture data, allocated space and planogram, category and product
adjacencies."
http://www.avtretail.com/

See Contact page
http://www.avtretail.com/contact.asp

Pricing available through contact




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SPACEMAN FLOOR PLANNER
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http://www.acnielsenspaceman.com/SpaceSolutions.asp

 Spaceman StorePlanner - a simple approach to fact based floor planning

 * 100% ready to use out-of-the-box with only one day training
 * AutoCAD drawings can be used for increased accuracy and realism
 * Spaceman planograms can be dragged and dropped directly onto the floor
   plan
 * Shoppable and non shoppable areas can be created for accurate
   analysis
 * Powerful highlights can be displayed to validate decisions
 * Business focused Excel reports can be run and distributed for key decision 
   makers
 * Floor plans can be compared and category or department performance analysed

 See more software products
 http://www.acnielsenspaceman.com/SoftwareSolutions.asp


You must contact the company to arrange for demonstration and pricing
http://www.acnielsenspaceman.com/contactus2.asp




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AUTO-SPACE PLANNER
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http://www.hagerman.com/Products/autospace.htm

"Today?s retailers face constant challenges in allocating and tracking
their valuable retail space. Auto-Space Planner from Hagerman &
Company helps retailers meet those challenges. Compatible with AutoCAD
2000 and above, Auto-Space Planner provides the tools necessary to
quickly, easily and accurately create and update your space plan
drawings.

Some of Auto-Space Planner?s key features include:
 
* Ability to work with existing CAD data and space planning information

* Full associativity between and automatic updating of adjacent
departments, departments and sub-departments, and selling and
non-selling areas thus eliminating errors and mistakes

* Full flexibility in defining department and sub-department names and
hierarchies along with stock, fitting, check out, loading areas, etc

* Support for multi-level retail facilities

* Automatic detection and prevention of overlapping boundaries,
unallocated areas and improperly allocated areas

Automatic reporting on:

Selling vs. non-selling area
Area allocations by department
Current area allocations vs. previous allocations
Current area allocations vs. target allocations
Projected sales per square foot

Small command set with no need for a high level of CAD knowledge

Ability to read information from and write information to your other
financial and retail reporting systems


Pricing

You must register to purchase products. No pricing is available without registering
https://estore.hagerman.com/


Contact
http://www.hagerman.com/Contact_Us/Contact.htm




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SMART DRAW
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This is an easy, do-it-yourself software for floor plan layouts,
including retail space.

Facility Floor Plans & Retail Layouts
http://www.smartdraw.com/examples/view/index.aspx?catID=.Examples.SmartDraw.Floor_Plans.Facility_Floor_Plans_%26_Retail_Layouts


Homepage with free trial
http://www.smartdraw.com/exp/fpn/


Pricing
http://www.smartdraw.com/buy/

 1 User   -  $197
 5 Users  -  $885
10 Users  -  $1495  
   

HAVE A QUESTION? - CALL 1-800-768-3729



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 The Galleria Space Planning software solutions appear to be more
based on planograms than they do floor planning, but take a look and
see if they are applicable:

Galleria Space planning software
http://www.galleria-rts.com/html/products/business_area/space_planning/about.htm


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I hope these are helpful solutions for you!


umiat


Search Strategy

retail layout software
software AND retail floor planning
floor planning software Retail
floor layout software Retail
floor design software Retail
floor space software Retail
Retail space planning software

I can suggest a vendors, but have no visibility on pricing. If you're
interested, let me know. Thanks.