Manual Desktop Planning

Manual Desktop Planning Suite: Professional, Apollo Briefcase, and Apollo Lite

Aldata’s Apollo Manual Suite enables you to manually create and analyze planograms. To meet the needs of users ranging from category managers to field schematic collectors, it is offered in three versions: Professional, BriefCase and Lite. Apollo’s flexibility allows you to add features from one version to another to meet your specific needs and requirements. The Apollo Professional and BriefCase solutions also offer translation capabilities to and from other space planning applications.

APOLLO PROFESSIONAL™

Designed for space planners and category managers in corporate headquarters, Apollo Professional™ allows users to analyze space performance, create planograms, visualize category and assortment strategies, and manage large planogram databases. Apollo Professional™ supports merchandising and allocation decisions, movement, profit, optimization of sales, and return on inventory investment. It features:

• The ability to split and merge shelves
• More colors to identify and manage products databases
• Accurate and quick placement of items on shelves using drag-and-drop
• Automatic product updates triggered by changes in product attributes
• Support for all major shelf types
• Visualization of product performance on the shelf, highlighting sales, profit, and supply
• Powerful reports for analysis and in-store implementation

APOLLO BRIEFCASE™

Apollo BriefCase™ is a streamlined version of Apollo Professional™ designed for use in the field. It allows you to create and change planograms, analyze section performance, collect shelf data, and produce analytical reports. With Apollo BriefCase™, you can:

• Ensure planogram compliance at the shelf by allowing suppliers and retailers to create and fine-tune planograms, analyze section performance, and develop fact-based execution plans
• Get at-a-glance section performance through comprehensive analysis, reporting, and graphing capabilities
• Maintain shelf set integrity with data collection and shelf customization features to match store deviations

APOLLO LITE™

Apollo Lite™ is a customizable, low cost, action-ready space management tool that allows you to capture shelf data and create, modify, and execute planograms in the store or at the buyer's desk. With Apollo Lite™, you can:

• Save output files for printing in the store and benefit from the solution’s convenience and mobility
• Accurately and effectively distribute planograms to the field using the web or email
• Verify set accuracy against planograms and allow planogram customization