Gross Sales Units vs Last Year
What's new
Gross Sales Units on the Assortment Plan Line Building workflow now has two more variants you can tick on:
Act LY
, what the choice actually sold in the same weeks last year, and
Plan vs Act LY %
, how far above or below last year you are planning.
What you can do
  • Tick them on from the Variants menu
    – Open the view menu, go to Variants, and check Act LY and Plan vs Act LY %. They sit right under Act, Plan and System.
  • See last year beside the plan
    – Act LY lands next to Plan and Act on every choice, so the comparison is on the row you are already working in.
  • Read the gap as a percentage
    – Plan vs Act LY % does the math for you. Positive means you are planning above last year, negative means below.
  • Scan a whole assortment at once
    – Sort on the percent column to pull the choices furthest from last year to the top.
  • Keep it in your view
    – Save the view once the variants are on and they come back every time you open it.
Why it helps
  • Catch a choice planned well over or under last year before the buy is locked.
  • Keeps the last-year comparison in the grid you already plan in, instead of an export.
  • Rolls up over each choice's own selling window, so it lines up with the plan sitting next to it.