Where plans
meet reality
Financial targets. Merchandise strategy. Supply chain execution. We align the three — and keep them aligned — on Oracle Retail and Blue Yonder.
THE PLANNING HIERARCHY
Financial Plan & OTB
Range & Assortment
Forecast & Supply Chain
Oracle
RETAIL
Blue
YONDER
Multi- Platform
ENVIRONMENTS
Deep expertise.
Both stacks.
We maintain specialist knowledge across Oracle Retail and Blue Yonder — including the mixed environments where both platforms operate alongside each other and must be kept in sync.
RPAS
Domain configuration, workbook architecture, and batch management. Configuration quality directly determines planning system performance.
Merchandise Financial Planning
Top-down targets and open-to-buy at department, class, subclass, and location level — in both cost and retail accounting variants.
Assortment Planning
Location-level assortment decisions grounded in real demand signals, space constraints, and store clustering logic.
Item Planning
Item-level planning detail connecting range decisions to replenishment and allocation logic.
Demand Forecasting (RDF)
Calibrated for trend, seasonality, promotional uplift, and category-specific demand characteristics.
Advanced Inventory Planning
Receipt plans aligned with financial and assortment plans in MFP and AP — connecting planning to supply chain execution.
Merchandise Financial Planning
AI-enhanced MFP unifying top-down, middle-out, and bottom-up financial planning with automated reconciliation and AI-assisted scenario modelling.
Assortment Planning
AI-driven demand analysis, store clustering, and localised assortment optimisation — integrated with demand forecasting and space planning.
Demand Planning & Forecasting
One of the strongest demand planning capabilities available, implemented with data preparation, causal factor modelling, and accuracy measurement rigour.
Oracle Retail + Blue Yonder
Some enterprise retailers run Oracle Retail for core merchandising while running Blue Yonder for planning and forecasting. The integration between these environments — financial reconciliation, demand signal flow, inventory position — requires specialist knowledge of both platforms.
We design and maintain the integration architecture that makes these mixed environments reliable.
Why this matters
Most consultants specialise in one platform. Mixed environments fail at the integration layer — where financial plans reconcile, where demand signals flow, where inventory positions must be consistent across systems. That's exactly where we work.
The problems
we're called to fix.
Planning challenges don’t always arrive as part of a wider programme. We engage on specific problems — with defined scope and clear outcomes.
01
Disconnected financial & merchandise planning
When MFP and assortment planning run on different data sources or planning calendars, teams spend more time reconciling the plan than improving it. We redesign the integration and workflow to align them.
02
RPAS configuration drift
Domains configured five or eight years ago frequently no longer reflect how the business plans. We audit, modernise, and rebuild RPAS configuration without requiring a full reimplementation.
03
Planning cycles that can't keep pace
When the weekly cycle takes several days — because workbook builds are slow, batch runs are unstable, or data doesn’t reconcile — the business is always planning in arrears. We fix the performance and stability issues.
04
Assortment plans that can't be executed
Range plans that look sound in AP but don’t account for space constraints or supplier commitments create execution failures at buying level. We connect assortment planning to operational constraints.
05
OTB that doesn't reflect real commitments
Open-to-buy is only useful when it reflects accurate on-order positions and realistic markdown assumptions. When disconnected from PO reality, buying teams work with unreliable numbers. We fix the integration and reconciliation logic.
06
Standalone engagements
An MFP that needs reconfiguring. An RPAS domain that needs rebuilding. A planning integration that isn’t reconciling. We engage directly on specific problems — no need for a wider programme.
Planning teams working from a single, connected version of the truth — where the financial plan, the merchandise plan, and the supply chain plan are aligned by design.
Meridian — Retail Planning Consultancy