What is geographical planning in retail merchandising?
Geographical planning plays a key role in streamlining and organising installation projects with dynamic features like map-based store planning and retail installation schedule tracking. With Consilio’s ‘installs’ component, each installation begins with a user selecting one or more stores – often referred to as jobs. Each job can be scheduled with a specific date and time, and viewed on an interactive map to help admin users plan installations efficiently across a variety of locations. This visual overview supports better resource allocation and time management, particularly when coordinating multiple sites.
How can retailers plan fixture installs across multiple store locations?
Every job can include one or more visits, depending on how many times a site needs to be revisited for multi-store merchandising planning. All relevant data, including store manager sign-off, photographic evidence (which is used to support invoicing), snagging issues, documents, and notes, is grouped under each visit for easy access and retail installation tracking.
To efficiently manage progress, each job is assigned a status: Complete, Cancelled, Complete with issues, Aborted, or Open. This structured approach ensures every aspect of an installation is fully documented and traceable with store fixture tracking, supporting both operational efficiency and accountability.
