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Retail Shelf Planner 2018

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Retail Shelf Planner

Release 2018 - New & Enhanced Features



Topics

• New Features

– General Usability

– Output

– Fixturing / Merchandising

– Data Management

– Miscellaneous

• Enhanced Features



GENERAL USABILITY

Section 1.



Drag & Drop

• When copying one or more positions using Drag & Drop, the newly created positions are the ones selected

– More in line with standard Windows behavior

– More efficient when doing multiple copies after each other



Creating a new planogram (1)

• Now shows first a little dialog with three options

– Blank form (like current functionality)

– Fixture Wizard

– Fixture Library




• Fixture Wizard

– User enters dimensions of section & some shelf details

– All these are saved as defaults

– Other section details can be saved as defaults as well

– Click OK to create section withthe shelves




• Fixture Library

– Software now installs with a few sample fixtures

– Users can add their own fixtures



Multiple Planograms Open (1)

• Release 2018 makes it easier to work with multiple planograms

– Open in New Window…

– Leaves current planogram open, and creates a new instance of RSP with the selected planogram

– Opening the 2nd, 3rd, .. Instance of RSP is now much quicker




• Quick & Easy way to arrange multiple planograms on screen



User defined Status Bar content

• The user can now define which info is displayed in the status bar when the cursor is over a position



FIXTURING / MERCHANDISING

Section 2.



Allocating products

• When allocating products there is now a second filtering option

– The two filters are combined, i.e. product has to match both criteria



Overhang (1)

• For Shelves and Hanging Bars

– Left & Right

– Positive (extra space) or negative (less space)



Overhang (2)



Shelves resize & relocate after Section resize



Merging Planograms

• It is now also possible to select a planogram from the RMC database to merge with the current planogram



OUTPUT

Section 3.



Multi Planogram Analysis

• The Add from Database option in Multi Planogram Analysis now uses the correct planogram select dialog



Live Images

• The speed of loading / processing Live Images has improved significantly when there are many files to search through



Position Labels

• It is now possible to display a Position Label on top of a Live Image



Tables in PowerPoint Templates (1)

• No more limitations for the number of rows

– Note: the table is not automatically split across multiple pages if it doesn’t fit on a single page




• Users can now define their own tables

– Two types

• Products/Positions by Shelf

• Products/Positions




• Products/Positions by ShelfUser can define headers

User can define column widths (relative to total width of table)

User can define sort order for shelves

horizontally & vertically

(positions are sorted left to right, and top

to bottom on pegboards)




• Products/PositionsUser can define headers

User can define column widths (relative to total width of table)

User can define sort order(up to three levels)



DATA MANAGEMENT

Section 4.



Product Library (1)

• Product Library location can now be defined by the user

– Top of the screen

– Left of the screen



Product Library (2)

• When using the RMC database as the Product Library, there is a filtering option



Importing Product Data from Excel (1)

• In case of a data error, RSP now gives you the exact cell that is causing the problem



Importing Product Data from Excel (2)

• For each of the import file layouts, the user can now decide which fields to import or skip

– Settings are saved for future use



Importing Product data from RMC (1)

• Like with importing from Excel, the user can now exclude fields

• When updating the existing products, it’s no longer needed to fill in a filter



Product Search & Replace (with RMC)

• If RSP has a connection to a RMC database it is now possible to do a “Search & Replace” of a product in the active planogram

– All Positions of the original product are replaced with those of the new product (same # facings, orientation, etc.)

– Search & Replace is done based on Product ID



Importing Product Performance data from RMC (1)

• Performance Data across multiple

– Stores …




• Performance Data across multiple

– … and Periods




• Performance Data

– Facts depending on availability

• Requires specific tables and queriesto be set up in the RMC database

– And obviously filled with data… ☺



MISCELLANEOUS

Section 5.



Copy Live Images

• Remove Unused now also removes all associated Live Images from memory

• When copying Live Images all images in memory (for allocated and unallocated products) are copied



Applying Trends

• Values in the field to trend on that started with a number, were incorrectly aligned right. This has been corrected.

• The field that is trended on is stored, and will serve as the default next time the dialog is opened



ENHANCED FEATURES

Section 6.



Branding

• Splash Screen

– The new product and company logo are now featuring in the splash screen.

• Icon for RSP-files

– The software has gotten a new icon to reflect its new product logo.



Competitive Files (1)

• Spaceman PLN-files

– It is now possible to load a Spaceman PLN-file without a section (i.e. Products only).

– Loading a pln-file with missing info on Peg Row and Peg Column will now recalculate the correct locations for products on pegboards.

• JDA PSA-files

– It is now possible to load PSA-files that use UPC as the primary key, and thus can have blank or duplicate IDs. (UPC is copied into the ID field.)

– It is now possible to load PSA-files with non-textbox drawing objects.



Competitive Files (2)

• All competitive files

– Positions in competitive files that are merchandised as Trays were positioned as Units. This has been corrected.



Merchandising (1)

• Positions

– When using the Position Dialog to place new positions on a pegboard, or making changes to an existing layout, all positions were placed in the top left corner. This has been corrected.

• RMC database planogram locking

– When a planogram is opened from the database, and then saved as a new planogram, the original planogram was not “unlocked”. This has been corrected.



Merchandising (2)

• Shelves (1)

– When working with notches, shelves can be dragged to the left and to the right of the section. Double-clicking such a shelf to bring up the Shelf dialog would give an error message. This has been corrected.

– When copying a Shelf using <Ctrl> drag and drop, the fields Part Number, Supplier, Cost, Flexible Placement and Z were not retained. This has been corrected.

– When copying a Pegboard or Hanging Bar using <Ctrl> drag and drop, the fields Part Number, Supplier, Cost, Peg Part Number, Peg Supplier, Peg Cost, Flexible Placement and Z were not retained. This has been corrected.



Merchandising (2)

• Shelves (2)

– When dragging a shelf/hanging bar/pegboard that has been given a “horizontal offset” using the Flexible Placement and the X-coordinate to a new location, Retail Shelf Planner would align the fixel to the left of the segment. This has been changed. Now the horizontal offset is retained, even when dragging to another segment.

– Shelves can now also have a negative Z-value.



Output (1)

• Page Setup features

– If in the Page Setup footer texts were not active, the logo was drawn in the wrong location. This has been corrected.

– The logo in the Page Setup didn’t scale properly in some occasions. This has been corrected.

– Drawing of the Title, Subtitle. Footer texts and Date/Time texts from the Page Setup has been improved. Now the same font is used as has been selected in the International Settings for the User Interface.



Output (2)

• PowerPoint output (1)

– The Position field LocationNumber in the “LocationID” report in PowerPoint output is now treated as a numeric value, which improves sorting. (E.g. 2 before 10.)

– The report “Products by Shelf” in PowerPoint output was sorting the positions by X and then Y, which could give strange results on pegboards with products with varying sizes. The positions are now first sorted by Peg Row, then Peg Column, then Position Y and X.

– The Blueprint keyword for creating PowerPoint output is no longer case sensitive when splitting the planogram in segments.



Output (3)

• PowerPoint output (2)

– After creating PowerPoint output, the option Show Merchandising Areas in the View menu was disabled. This has been corrected.

– Two new keywords have been added to the PowerPoint template output

• PLN_ID_VALUE, saving the database PLN_ID

• PLN_FILENAME_VALUE, saving the filename of the planogram



Usability (1)

• Product Library

– The performance of a refresh of the product library has been improved.

– Additional error handling has been added to the Drag & Drop function from product library to deal properly with unforeseen circumstances.

– The Product Library now supports <Ctrl><F> to show the search dialog, and <F5> to refresh.

• Product & InfoBox Lists

– The Product List and InfoBox List windows are now resizable again. (This was broken in the 2015 release.)



Usability (2)

• Shelf dialog

– The shortcut keys on Add/Update/Remove buttons in the Shelf dialog now work directly after opening the dialog.

– Clicking the Apply button in the Shelf dialog when there are no shelves yet in the segment would crash the s/w. This has been corrected.

• Delete Segements dialog

– Opening the Delete Segments dialog on a planogram with a large number of segments (30 or more) will lead to a crash. This has been corrected.



Usability (3)

• Change Multiple Products dialog

– Nesting Height and Nesting Width were not displayed in the correct order in the Change Multiple products dialog. This has been fixed.

• Product dialog

– When adding a new product through the Product dialog, selecting one of the Supplier, Category, and SubCategory fields could lead to an error-message. This has been corrected.



Drawing (1)

• Selected Objects

– <F5> does a refresh/redraw of the screen, but didn’t clear the selected objects, which are then incorrectly displayed as selected when clicking an object afterwards. This has been corrected.

– Dragging one or more products from the product library does a refresh/redraw of the screen, but didn’t clear the selected objects, which are then incorrectly displayed as selected when clicking an object afterwards. This has been corrected.



Drawing (2)

• Dragging Shelves with a Grill

– Dragging a shelf that has Grill Height set to something larger than 0, would display a grill, even when Grill Type was set to none. This has been corrected.

• Highlight Legends

– The texts in highlighting legends sometimes varied in font and styles used. Now the same font is used as has been selected in the International Settings for the User Interface.



Drawing (3)

• Live Image naming

– The function to load all Live Images for a planogram is no longer case sensitive. So images for the orientation Front 90, can now also have the indication _f90.



Analysis & Reporting

• Characteristic Analysis

– The fields Data 1-5 have been added to the Characteristic Analysis highlight.

• Excel reporting

– With the latest releases / updates of Excel there was a problem executing the RetailShelfPlannerAutoRun macro correctly when other Excel files were already open. This has been corrected.



International (1)

• Korean

– Registration issues in Korean Windows have been corrected.

– Korean is now one of the supported languages for the user interface and installation procedure.

– Retail Shelf Planner now fully supports display and drawing of Korean texts in the User Interface and in planograms when used on a Korean Windows PC.



International (2)

• Portuguese

– Portuguese is now one of the supported languages for the user interface and installation procedure.

• Dutch

– The typo in the message after closing the “How To” panel has been corrected.

• All languages

– If there was an error loading the Live Images, the error message was not translated. This has been corrected.



Retail Merchandising Center integration (1)

• Saving a new planogram to the database

– When saving a file-based planogram to the Retail Merchandising Center database using “Save as New To Database”, the original filename is no longer retained to avoid potentially confusing situations.

• Changing UI language

– When changing the user interface language with a database planogram open, the window caption would incorrectly change to “Untitled Planogram” (in the selected language). This has been corrected.



Retail Merchandising Center integration (2)

• Importing Product data

– Importing product data from the Retail Merchandising Center database would lead in certain circumstances to a crash. This has been corrected.

– Importing product data from database will now automatically use the RSP_ProductLibararyAllFields view.

– Importing product data from database now has additional error trapping.



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