SAS^® INTELLIGENT PLANNING SUITE

Everything needed to accurately forecast shopper and consumer demand to create seamless merchandise and assortment plans.

• Predict and plan demand with greater accuracy and drive forecasting efficiencies using a variety of advanced analytics methodologies, including machine learning. Automated, low-touch planning processes help manage planning by exception, which in turn reduces errors and human forecast bias.
• Improve your sales and margins with dynamic in-season reforecasting that proactively adjusts to changing demand and inventory conditions. SAS Intelligent Planning Suite uses proven analytics that enables you to optimize assortments to increase your inventory's productivity and profitability.
• Analytics-driven, localized assortment plans enable you to tailor merchandise to meet the needs of your customers. Effective assortments and new product launches depend on the ability to leverage advanced analytics at scale to understand what customers are looking for in terms of style, color or size – and use that knowledge to deliver a superior shopping experience.

SAS FOR PREDICT & PLAN CONSUMER DEMAND 

Make it easier to find answers in the cloud: SAS and Microsoft make it easier for everyone to use analytics to ask and answer the questions that drive organizations forward.

• Easily run analytic workloads in the cloud to make trusted decisions and meet business goals faster
• Plan where you want – on the web, on the go or in your favorite Microsoft productivity tool
• Unlock more critical data insights on the path to digital transformation

SAS Intelligent Decisioning

Drive real-time interactions and automate analytically driven decisions at scale.

• Deliver relevant, interactive, real-time decisions based on business rules and sophisticated analytics at scale to a limitless number of use cases. Easily test decisions prior to deployment to ensure they deliver the expected results. Robust governance ensures your decisions are understood and trusted across the business. High data and decision volumes are easy to handle with a cloud-based architecture that can scale to meet your demands. Deliver decisions at the edge and in stream through integration with IoT devices.
• Build and modify decisioning processes with ease, whether you prefer a drag-and-drop GUI or the ability to write code. Define decisions by browsing centralized data, model and business rule repositories and selecting from existing assets. Compare different objects and versions to understand and track changes for easier collaboration across teams. Ensure accuracy and task transparency using an out-of-the-box, role-based governance workflow to apply various decisioning checkpoints.​
• Improve decision quality by incorporating artificial intelligence and machine learning models from a common repository, created in your preferred language​.
• A common decision authoring and deployment environment dramatically reduces the time required for IT to validate and deploy analytical models – whether written in SAS, open source or custom code. From a single interface, you can natively integrate, manage and deploy SAS and Python analytical models, custom code and business rules, with identical logic for both batch and real-time web service execution. That means faster deployment and confidence in the integrity of your analytically driven operational decisions.

SAS Customer Intelligence

• No matter your level of marketing maturity, marketing solutions from SAS empower you to reimagine marketing. Adaptive planning, journey activation and a real-time decision engine enable you to create appealing, moments-based customer experiences that boost profitability and strengthen brand loyalty.
• SAS Customer Intelligence: a leader across five analyst evaluations, including:
  • The Forrester Wave™: Customer Analytics Technologies
  • The Forrester Wave™: Cross-Channel Campaign Management (EMSS Modules)
  • Gartner Magic Quadrant for Multichannel Marketing Hubs
  • The Forrester Wave™: Real-Time Interaction Management

SAS® Revenue Optimization Suite  

Optimize life cycle pricing strategies and corporate profitability with a comprehensive view of consumer demand.

• Gain visibility into pricing decisions to see the cross-effects and differentiators directly affecting your bottom line. Optimize prices for a wide range of products, including fast-moving consumer goods and fashion items. Use built-in forecasting to easily handle and understand difficult retail scenarios, such as sorted cause and effect, promotions, seasonality and changing calendar events.
• Empower business users with retailer workflows and an intuitive interface. Speed pricing decisions with automated plans that reduce or even eliminate the need for manual processing. Improve communications with shared visibility into your optimization rationale. And provide merchants with visibility into category.
• Implement pricing at all levels of your product and location hierarchy, all the way down to individual store SKU. A common retail foundation reduces your implementation and administration headaches. And you can choose the deployment option that best suits your needs – as a managed service (which can speed results and reduce your initial investment) or as software behind the firewall (which can provide a lower long-term cost of ownership).