Training Flashcards
What is merchandising?
Merchandising is the art of staging a store to encourage consumers to purchase more product.
What is category management?
Category management is a business strategy whereby manufacturers work with retailers to develop joint plans to optimize the sales of the total category.
What is shelf merchandising?
Providing what the customer wants, simplifying the buying process to stimulate the shopper to buy.
What is the purpose of assortment changes?
Removing discontinues or poor performing products to make room for new items coming to market and to update flow of items on shelf.
A group of planograms opened together.
Project
Highest level we save, normally contains fixtures.
Planogram
Where a product is placed.
Fixture
Data for all items in a project.
Performance
Created when a product is placed on a shelf.
Position
The same in all locations. It can have many positions in performance.
Product
The planogram hierarchy is structured by..
Brand, super category, category, hierarchy 5
Space planning planogram status..
Work in progress, cleaning, review, pending, live, historic.
The planogram that has the beast footage to obtain the maximum sails for a particular category. Most comment type.
Smallest Full Variety
The planogram built that does not contain all of the items that you would see in the facings across planogram.
Less than Full Variety
Contains smallest full variety items with expanded facings to complete planogram footage.
Larger than Full Variety
Used for regular cycle work. Keeps the link between the new pog and the original pog. The DBkey will not match the DB version key showing the link between the two pogs.
Version
Used to initially create store specific pogs, pole pogs, test pogs, floating pogs, etc. Breaks the link between the new pog and the original pog. Must be assigned to a floor plan by floor planning.
Copy
Planograms, if larger than 12ft or have off set shelves, should have _____.
Segments
Typical grocery shelf thickness is ____.
1.25”
The Y-coordinate for shelves should be set at ___.
0.75
Shelf heights must be no higher than ___inches.
69
_______ are generally 1/2 inch smaller than segment they are in.
Pegboards
After adding pushers/dividers, what should your new shelf height be set to?
1.90”
X = \_\_\_ Y = \_\_\_ Z = \_\_\_
X = Wide, Y = High, Z = Deep
We never change _____ at product level?
Facings.
Product capacity should be at ___. This equals 1 case plus 1 item.
1.08
Changing product dimensions, measurements, and color at ___________ will change the product everywhere it is pound in Blue Yonder.
Product Level
True or False: You measure the tray and tray packs for any items merchandised in trays.
True
Creates new planogram for the selection.
POG Copy
Creates a linked planogram for the selection.
POG Version
Clears LCM (Life Cycle Management) Dates.
CLR Dates
Changes layout file name to under review.
Under Review
Updates cycle info.
UPDT Cycle
Updates the Analyst.
UPDT Analyst
Updates the web layout.
Web Layout
Updates the planogram hierarchy.
UPDT Hierarchy
Sends selected planograms to historic status.
Make Historic
The result of what you want to see pulled back on your script (COLUMN HEADERS)
Select
The table your data actually comes from.
Form
The filter you used to pull your script. Example is by planogram name.
Where
Used for mass swaps.
Global Changes
What is a PDF?
Portable Document Format
What is a PSA?
PSA Planogram or Floorplan is a special file format by Blue Yonder.
Before sending PDF’s to anyone other than category, remove all _________.
Financial Data
What is a VOR ( Voice of Retail)
Store specific request.
