Grocery Store Planogram. Types of Product Placement in PlanoHero Service

Shelf layout determines the success of the entire store and has a significant impact on the customer's decision to purchase a product. Therefore, a deep understanding of how to create a layout, and the lack of such understanding can create two dramatically different situations in a store: high demand and sales or overstocked merchandise and zero sales.

What should you know about in-store product layout?

Layout is the planned placement of products on the shelves in the store. The racks are not filled with goods chaotically. The layout of goods is designed in advance with the help of planograms, taking into account the different characteristics of goods, shelves, and the sales area.

Why are planograms important for stores?

A planogram is a visual scheme of product placement on retail equipment in a store. Retail planograms allow you to plan the layout of each SKU, category, or brand. It is possible to see the whole picture of merchandising in a store and track and analyze the layout efficiency.

All shelves are different. Sales of merchandise from shelves at eye level are some of the highest. Therefore, eye-level shelf product placement is essential for brands that want to be noticed by customers. The competition between brands on shelves is so great that they have to make agreements with stores about their share of the shelves. A larger shelf share and more faces increase the likelihood of purchase and make the product stand out among the competitors.

Share of Shelf is a metric that compares brand faces to the total number of faces available, that is, the share of shelf shows and measures the popularity of a product on the shelf.

How do I calculate a product's shelf share?

Of course, the creation of layouts on a planogram takes into account all agreements with brands or suppliers and the share of their products on the shelf. The brand's on-shelf share and location can give you an advantage over your competitors. Of course, more face time increases the likelihood that a customer will purchase a product. The more brand share on the shelf, the higher sales are expected in the store.

The layout is like a game that the store and the customer are playing. And when it looks like a customer is just shopping for necessary products. In reality, it can actually turn into buying products that the customer didn't really plan to buy. The purpose of working with layouts is to get the customer's attention and motivate them to buy the product.

Strategic product placement allows you to predict sales and customize your layouts according to customer needs, brand agreements, and specific merchandising principles. Use special services to work with planograms and set up the layout of products according to merchandising rules and product parameters. One such easy-to-use tool is PlanoHero service.

How to customize product layout in PlanoHero?

Different types of equipment and product dimensions require different approaches to display. When creating a planogram in PlanoHero, set the depth/height of the layout, the number of faces of each SKU, the type of packaging, and the compression ratio for products in soft packaging. Additionally, the service functionality calculates shelf stock based on the products on display. Thus, the merchandiser gets information about how many days a particular product will be available.

Layout in Blocks on a Planogram

The PlanoHero service allows you to create separate zones on the planogram in the form of product blocks. Blocks can be connected to a certain brand, product category, or supplier. The functionality of the PlanoHero service allows you to set up such blocks separately from the other layouts and change the size of the block itself. In the created brand block on the planogram, you can automatically lay out products using the autolayout function.

Product Autolayout on the Planogram

Autolayout allows you to form a planogram automatically in a few clicks. The service can form a regular autolayout by distributing products equally on the planogram. Products can be grouped vertically by brand, category, and supplier. Products are sorted on each shelf from left to right. You can sort items by size and price, ascending or descending. In PlanoHero you can customize the "Golden Shelf" parameter and the goods with the highest turnover will be placed on the shelf at the customer's hand and eye level. In addition to grouping and sorting products, you can set a limit on the number of faces for each item.

Sales-based autolayout calculates the recommended percentage of layout for each product relative to its historical sales. Each item's layout percentage is calculated based on the period and four coefficients: turnover rate, number of sales, profit, and number of checks.
 

 Autolayout based on target percentages. Set your own planned percentage of shelf space for brands and product categories. Items are then automatically displayed based on planned percentages.

Layout Rules

Layout rules is a module of the PlanoHero service that allows you to create your own layout rules and apply them to any store in the chain. You can group products on the shelves by brand and sort them by size. Then within a brand level group goods, for example, by country, and sort them by price. Thanks to the rules, you can customize the layout by grouping goods simultaneously by different parameters.

Layout Based on Analytics

Monitoring the effectiveness of layouts with the help of analytics allows you to understand the activity of customers in the store, and to identify the products of the highest demand and the number of sales. The PlanoHero service can help you set up the whole process of an automated layout. With the help of this tool, you can create a layout on a planogram in a few clicks and set up an efficient product placement.

Final words

Planogram layout is the practice of displaying products in the most advantageous places on the shelf to encourage the customer to purchase the product. Effective in-store product placement increases brand awareness and maximizes sales. When developing a merchandising strategy, consider the historical sales of the products, in-store customer traffic, the retail space, and how the same items are sold in other stores. Furthermore, product placement occurs according to the merchandising and marketing strategy being developed.