Enterprise Schematic Manager

“Enterprise Schematic Repository changes the way you manage planograms. This application classifies your planograms in a well-organized repository, simplifies updates, and makes the data available across the enterprise.”

The Enterprise Schematic Repository is a leading schematic management application that enables a retailer to organize, manage, and control large numbers of store schematics (planograms), as well as streamline the update, approval, and release process for these schematics. With Enterprise Schematic Repository you can:

  • Store all of your organization’s schematics in a single relational database
  • Make global updates to schematics
  • Maintain readily available, store specific, accurate schematics
  • Define schematics by demographic attributes

Enterprise Schematic Repository is designed to integrate closely with your existing schematic development tool with a minimum of customization.

Key Features

  • Tie specific schematics to individual stores.
  • Define schematics in terms of category, size, demographic parameters, fixture type, and other variables.
  • Capture all of the organization’s schematics in a single, searchable, relational database.
  • Store an authorized item list for each retail store to ensure store-level integrity.
  • Analyze and report on all schematics in use, and all of the items contained in those schematics.
  • Identify the current approved schematic for any stocking section.
  • Define individual users’ security levels to allow view only, checkout, checkout/check in, or administration.
  • Retain any desired number of prior versions of schematics.

Benefits

  • Increase your ability to control store sets.
  • Ease the management of large numbers of schematics or store specific schematics.
  • Together with the IPMS Retail Store Set Manager, you can identify every item in every stocking section in each store in the chain, and report on these items.
  • Lower costs for maintaining large numbers of schematics.
  • Improved accuracy through a structured process for updating, approving, and releasing schematics.
  • Increased efficiency – ability to make global corrections and updates to schematic data via the database.
  • Robust reporting and data mining capability of schematic elements.
  • Build the foundation to implement other IPMS space management enhancements, such as the Shelf Strip System.

The Enterprise Schematic Manager is available as a tailored solution or as part of the IPMS suite of retail products and services. These products and services include: R/V Link, Retail Store Set Manager, Patented Shelf Strip System, and the Planogram Management Service.