An overview of the re-platformed SPI Buyer products. Presented by Mary Paulson (Product Owner of SPI Buyer, SPI) at the 2016 SPI Conference.

1. SPI Buyer
Roadmap
MARY T. PAULSON

2. 1. Product Overview
2. SPI Buyer Roadmap
3. Allocation
4. Assortment Planning
5. Purchasing
6. The Future of SPI Buyer
CONTENTS

3. Product Overview
SPI Buyer consists of
• Allocation
• Distribute merchandise to stores from DC stock, receipts or ASNs
• Assortment Planning
• Advanced algorithms to aid in determining assortments that meet your
financial targets
• Ability to handle packs and pieces
• Ability to export assortments directly into purchase orders
• Purchasing
• Create and maintain purchase orders and upload to/download from
ERP/TPS.

4. SPI Buyer Roadmap

5. Allocation
Release 2.0
• Migration of core BWM Allocation functionality to the SPI
platform
Release 2.1
• Enhanced reporting functionality
• Ability to handle packs & pieces allocations
• Ability to release or reject individual style/colors on an allocation

6. Assortment Planning
Release 2.0
• Migration of core BWM Assortment Planning functionality to the
SPI platform
• Improved Assortment Optimizer UI (formerly WizAssort)
Release 2.1
• Improved handling of continuing line items
• Implement Customer-specific enhancements

7. Purchasing
• Release 2.0
• First BWM product migrated to the SPI Platform
• In production
• Release 2.0.1
• On schedule for general availability Aug. 31
• General housekeeping and customer-specific enhancements
• Release 2.1
• Scheduled for general availability Jan. 2017
• Ability to handle packs and packs & pieces on an order

8. The Future of SPI Buyer
• New release every 3-4 months. Each product will have its own
cadence/delivery schedule.
• Merchandise Planning is on the roadmap after the 2.1 releases
of the Allocation, Assortment Planning and Purchasing
products.
• Integration with SPI Buyer Direct will be addressed

9. Questions

10. Contact Me
•Mary Paulson
Email: mary.paulson@spi.com
Phone: 770.709.3460