Aptos Merchandise and Lifecycle Management

Aptos Merchandise Lifecycle Management addresses the specific planning and merchandising functions most critical to current needs. This powerful retail solution enables users to align strategy with execution, deliver a strong brand message to target customers, go faster through the merchandise lifecycle, deliver optimized assortments, and ensure that consumer demand is met across channels. From concept to shelf, Aptos Merchandise Lifecycle Management includes five industry-leading modules that optimize all critical planning and merchandising functions: Merchandise Financial Planning, Assortment Planning and Buying, Product Lifecycle Management, Forecasting, Allocation, and Replenishment & Supply Chain Collaboration. Aptos Merchandise Lifecycle Management features a unified database that informs and manages all of the end-to-end merchandising processes. All these processes can be configured and controlled through user-friendly interfaces that enhance productivity. Aptos Merchandise Lifecycle Management helps users drive critical business processes with industry best practices, and, thanks to its flexible configuration, easily adapts to change as the organization evolves to meet the ever-increasing demands of customers. Aptos Merchandise Lifecycle Management is the product of innovative design and technology from the top practitioners in this field. It incorporates familiar, Excel-based user interfaces, powerful optimizing algorithms, and advanced product visualization capabilities. The solution exploits the Microsoft Technology Stack plus proven software architectures, databases, and middleware—ensuring a cohesive, flexible environment and low total cost of ownership. The Aptos Merchandise Lifecycle Management solution serves hundreds of leading retailers worldwide, who are able to optimize critical processes and enhance decision making throughout their stores, web, catalog, wholesale and franchise operations—locally and globally.