Island Pacific SmartPlanning vs Oracle Retail Assortment Planning Cloud Service

Island Pacific SmartPlanning is an integrated merchandise-planning system for global multichannel retailers. Its modules cover pre-season and in-season planning, assortment development, forecasting, allocation, size profiling and replenishment. Core Planning supports business-specific workflows or preconfigured FastPlan plans, including key-item forecasting. Assortment Planner handles cross-planning, store planning, grading and option planning, while Assortment Builder lets teams develop ranges with product information, attributes and visuals. Forecast Manager provides data-mining and machine-learning forecasting tools. Allocation Manager supports cross-channel allocation with multiple algorithms, and Size Profiler manages size mixes across products and channels. Replenishment Manager calculates stock needs from past trends and projected sales. Island Pacific says SmartPlanning uses one data source across channels and integrates with its modules and existing ERP systems. Controls include top-down and bottom-up planning, plan locking and customizable views. Pricing is on request.

Oracle Retail Assortment Planning Cloud Service helps retail planners set assortment breadth and depth by location and planning period, including color, fragrance, flavor, and size. AI Foundation generates recommendations aligned with business objectives. Visual planning presents a near-real-time shopping view where planners can review or override recommendations, create a high-level buy plan, and approve assortments. Demand Transference estimates sales effects from adding, removing, or swapping items and supports optimization against selected KPIs. Item Planning covers pre-season and in-season planning, reforecasting, and subclass open-to-buy reconciliation. Dashboards analyze sales, gross margin, sell-through, and exceptions. The web SaaS runs on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Autonomous Data Warehouse, connects with Oracle retail systems, and exchanges data through interfaces, exports, and Object Storage flat files. Documented roles are Planner and Planning Administrator; pricing is available on request.