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From Excel to planograms: moving off spreadsheets

Spreadsheets are where most shelf planning starts. They are fine for lists — and painful for shelves.

What Excel does well

  • Item lists with sizes and sales.
  • Simple facing calculations.
  • Sharing a table with a store.

Where it breaks

  • No picture of the shelf — mistakes show up only in the store.
  • Every store is a copy of a copy.
  • Fitting widths and heights by hand is slow and error-prone.
  • No version history or compliance check.

Moving to EazyPlano

Upload the same spreadsheets: products with sizes, sales by store, and your fixtures. Map the columns once. EazyPlano builds the planograms; you can still export everything back to Excel, PowerPoint and PDF.

By the WhyNotGlobal team, makers of EazyPlano.

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See it on your shelves.

Send us a fixture list and a few months of sales. In the demo you’ll see planograms for your own stores — not a sample file.

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