The Card Manager, Display Planning module is used to create the initial Stock Control Display Plan, and to produce the presentation documentation sent to your Customer. This may consist of (Colour coded) Rack Plans, Ticket check sheets, Sales force installation guides etc...

The Display is either created using a simple drag & drop technique either by Price / Caption or by picking a specific design, and can refer to your Model product line to ensure that no over planning takes place. By utilising the Display Planning Extension Module, Card Manager can automatically produce a suggested Display Mix, providing a summary of the number of pockets at price & caption level, which will fill a specified size of display based on a predetermined model line. This suggested Display Mix may then be placed on the Racks using drag & drop, or Card Manager can if requested actually place the suggested display mix on to the Racks, leaving you merely to adjust the edges of the caption areas to ensure that the overlap is clean, and the shape is what you require. No fully automated system can plan a Stock Control Display with the same degree of expertise which an experienced Display Planner can provide, but it can generate a huge number of pretty good Displays in a very short time, which may then be hand tailored at a later time...

When planning pockets you may pick a "Preferred Design" so that when Tickets are serviced, a specific design will be used in a pre-determined pocket, provided that the Design is in stock. Once the preferred design goes out of stock the Ticket Processing module can, if required, select inventory in the normal manner, based upon Card Design performance within the individual store...

Plans may be created as either a bespoke Customer Display or as a Standard Plan which then forms part of the Plan Library for re-use. Thee system will notify you, if required, when you plan any pockets in excess of your Model line. Any number of Model lines may be maintained within the system for reference, and when planning a Display, if you wish to allocate Participants as you go along, rather than have Card Manager automatically allocate Participants over the whole Display, then you can request that each Participant is referenced to their own Model Line for the purposes of ensuring that no over planning takes place...

All plans are worked on using the Rack Designer screens which allow pockets to be updated on a drag & drop basis, either from the database of price / captions, a selection of your scanned images, or from another Display or Rack. The Rack Designer can track on screen details of average retail prices at all levels, and can restrict the usage of any participant to reflect the content of their own Model line if required. As the pockets are dropped onto a rack, the Rack Designer keeps track for you of the width allocated by tier, and adjusts the width of the pockets on screen to reflect their respective sizes in relationship to other pockets. Pocket numbers are automatically generated using your own numbering system profile, as you drop each new pocket...

Captions may be colour coded for ease of use on the screen, and this colour coding may also be carried forward to appear on Customer, and Sales force Rack Plans and installation guides...