The other problem is once they get to that competency, if they do not use the software regularly they tend to forget it and have to relearn it and so often what happens is that this person moves on? It took them quite a while to get to that knowledge and what they show you are far away from being usable. So please do not be fooled if someone demonstrates it to you at a trade show and in a few minutes shows you a great planogram. The other issue is that although it is not hard, they do tend to need a few attempts at making planograms, in the beginning, to get it right on the third attempt they do a good job. A person needs about a week or two to figure it out to get to the stage they can be said to be commercially competent.

I say theory because one of the problems with owning a planogram software is that it takes awhile to figure out how to use it. The significant advantage to owning it is that you, in theory, you can play with a lot of options continuously. This is very approximate as sometimes I have seen people spend $300 and it was too much, and sometimes I have seen much more spent and it was not nearly enough. Depending on whether you buy a simple drawing program to a full-blown system, as a punt, I would say an SMB business should budget between about $300 to a $1,000.

You can either buy it outright in which case the price varies considerably. If you want to know more, please click here for a video explaining what a planogram can do for your shop. I have seen people save thousands of dollars using planograms to highlight a variety of issues.

Even just looking at a million dollar a year turnover in a shop visually, I have seen some great ideas for improvements in both turnover and reducing shoplifting. When one retailer decided to use his stocktake data to look for places of high shoplifting utilizing a planogram, it took about a day and what was at stake was about $20,000 of missing stock that year, it did help a lot. This discussion here should first be put in context that planograms are great tools also what I am talking about here is a proper planogram, not a drawing program.įor a small shop today, a large fit is often between $50,000 to $200,000 for a big shop fit, and it can knock the shop out for a while. They say 'A picture is said to be worth a thousand words' and over the years, I have seen planograms used by small to large retailers to show much about their shop and their plans.

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