TRAINING

Blue Yonder logo

Training Services – Practical, Tailored,
and Built Around Your Team

We provide hands-on training across all Blue Yonder category management solutions, tailored to every skill level – from beginners to advanced users.
Training can take place at your site or in our dedicated training centre, and we make sessions as relevant as possible by using your own data and planograms.
We also offer an introductory course for those new to category management, along with bespoke training materials, how-to guides, and video content to support ongoing learning.
Whether it's a one-off session or a full training programme, we help your team build lasting capability and confidence.

Click Here To Book Training
Illustration of a group of people in a training session
Click Here To Book This Course

Introduction to
Category Management

This one-day workshop offers an introduction to Category Management, focusing on the practical, day-to-day aspects such as building an assortment strategy and applying core merchandising principles.
Designed for new Space Planners and Category Managers without prior Category Management experience, this session provides essential foundational knowledge.
Field teams
will also benefit from understanding their role within a broader context.

WORKSHOP CONTENT
Driving Store Compliance through Effective Category Management: Understanding the "why" and "how" of its crucial role.
Optimising Planograms for Visual Impact: Leveraging shopper decision trees to enhance shelf appeal and navigability.  
Achieving Inventory Balance on Planograms: Strategies for minimising out-of-stocks while preventing costly overstocks.  
Maximising Planogram Financial Performance: Aligning share of sales with share of space for optimal revenue generation.  
Decoding In-Store Consumer and Shopper Dynamics: Gaining actionable insights into purchase behaviours.  
Mastering Retail Visual Merchandising: Implementing best practices for impactful product display.  
Leveraging Data for Optimal Planogram Creation: Identifying and utilising key information to inform merchandising decisions.  
Articulating Your Shelf Vision: Developing persuasive communication strategies based on category expertise.  
Cultivating a Consumer-First Approach: Adopting a mindset centred on shopper needs and preferences.  
Building a Strategic Shelf Vision Blueprint: Defining core principles and developing a comprehensive plan for execution.

OTHER SERVICES

PLANOGRAMS

Optimising Micro Space with Data-Led Planograms

Learn More ►

FLOORPLANS

Driving Store Performance Through Smart Floor Planning

Learn More ►

PRODUCT IMAGES AND LIBRARIES

Accurate Product Data & Imagery – The Foundation
of Great Planograms

Learn More ►
Illustration of a man and a woman using a laptop

SHELF INSIGHTS

Space Analysis Dashboard – Live Shelf Insights, Anytime You Need Them

Find out how we can help you visualise your data ►

RANGE REVIEWS

Collaborative Range
Review Support

Learn More ►

AUDITS AND COMPLIANCE

What’s Really Happening
on Shelf

Learn More ►

ASSORTMENT OPTIMISATION

Assortment Optimisation That Balances Shopper Needs and Commercial Goals

Learn More ►

SOFTWARE

Blue Yonder Software
Services – Licensing, Implementation & Support

Blue Yonder logo
Learn More ►
Illustration of woman on a call

SOFTWARE

Blue Yonder Space Planning Partner

This one-day workshop offers an introduction to Category Management, focusing on the practical, day-to-day aspects such as building an assortment strategy and applying core merchandising principles.

Blue Yonder logo

Support

Contact our team experts for answers to your Blue Yonder Space Planning questions*

Visit the Support area

*JDH Solutions Support registered customers only

Illustration of a man using a computer

Contact us

Contact us for more information on how JDH Solutions can optimise your space management process

Get in touch
Illustration of woman on a call