Space Planner Certification Track

This certification track provides an overview of managing your merchandising goals within the overlay of space management. It offers a basic understanding of merchandising and working with libraries to achieve your corporate and partner merchandising goals. You will use product and fixture libraries to develop planograms and determine product placement while building the planograms from scratch. Once you have established the planograms, you will review your underlying performance data with tables and charts.

You should be a JDA Certified Space Planner if you:

• Create shelf and/or floor plans for remodels and new stores
• Create and maintain planograms
• Create new store fixtures
• Work with store clusters, layout and size
• Work with data from syndicated data sources
• Analyze results to find trends and determine areas of opportunity for space performance improvement
• Create sales to space overview analyses for assigned categories
• Work with vendors to implement prototype planograms

As a JDA Certified Space Planner you will be able to:

• Better understand merchandising concepts
• Identify the merchandising strategies of a planogram
• Support your merchandising strategies with single or multiple planogram projects
• Utilize fixture and product libraries to build merchandising space to place product
• Create and monitor product and fixture merchandising characteristics
• Use analytical tools to ensure that the assortment of products is best for both your customers and the bottom line
• Match item movement to shelf capacity and make sure your most profitable items are in the best location