Planogram Item Category Mapping With Parent-Child Templates
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Solution Overview
Problem
Changing item categories in planograms across multiple stores individually leads to inefficiencies and timing inconsistencies, making it difficult to maintain consistency and efficiency in store layouts.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that enables enterprise users to map existing planograms for a group of stores, allowing for the creation of child planograms with defined start and end dates, ensuring smooth transitions and consistency across stores.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If planograms are changed individually for each store, then store-specific customization is possible, but efficiency decreases and timing consistency becomes difficult to maintain
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the planogram management process by creating a hierarchical structure with parent planograms (enterprise-level templates) and child planograms (store-specific instances). This allows the system to maintain efficiency through centralized parent planogram management while enabling store-specific customization through child planogram variations, thus resolving the contradiction between adaptability and productivity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-defining parent planograms at the enterprise level with standardized item categories and layouts. These parent planograms serve as templates that can be automatically replicated across multiple stores, eliminating the need to create planograms individually for each store and thereby improving efficiency while maintaining consistency.
2Adaptability or versatility
If planograms are changed individually for each store, then store-specific customization is possible, but timing consistency becomes difficult to maintain
Solution Approach 1:
By segmenting planogram management into parent-child relationships, the system enables centralized timing control at the parent level while allowing store-specific implementations. This segmentation allows enterprise users to set effective dates and transition schedules once for the parent planogram, and these timing parameters are automatically propagated to all child planograms, ensuring timing consistency across stores.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies universality by creating a multi-functional parent planogram structure that serves as a master template for multiple stores simultaneously. The parent planogram contains universal item category definitions and layout parameters that can be replicated across numerous child planograms, ensuring that timing changes are applied universally and consistently across all associated stores.
3Ease of operation
If manual planogram changes are made for each store, then detailed control is possible, but manual effort increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements copying by allowing enterprise users to create parent planograms that serve as master templates. These parent planograms can be automatically copied and instantiated as child planograms for multiple stores, preserving detailed control over item categories and layouts while eliminating repetitive manual creation efforts. The copying mechanism ensures consistency across stores without requiring manual intervention for each instance.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service by allowing child planograms to automatically inherit and update from their parent planograms. When modifications are made to a parent planogram, the system can automatically propagate these changes to associated child planograms, reducing manual effort while maintaining detailed control. This self-service mechanism allows the system to manage updates automatically without requiring manual intervention for each store.
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AI summary
The present application describes a system and method which may enable an enterprise to map existing planograms for a group of stores in order to facilitate a modification of an item category in a planogram for the stores. One or more planograms associated with a desired item category may be chosen, and a list of stores for the planogram(s) may be provided. From the list of stores having a common planogram allocated to the item category, a subset of stores may be chosen for which to change the planogram(s). Changes to a planogram may require the creation of a separate child planogram, in some examples. Updates to the child planograms may apply to all stores in the chosen subset of stores, to avoid a requirement of individual planogram edits.