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Retail Solutions is offering exactly what the market needs: the option of a service in place of a costly enterprise system.

- Sara Shah, ABI Research

In the retail supply chain, clear visibility into demand is critical. For manufacturers, getting access to accurate and timely data from key retail partners can be a challenge, as information resides with many different sources and in many different formats. For retailers, ensuring that their suppliers get the data they can really use to improve their joint business has been one of the main issues slowing down retail data sharing initiatives.

Retail Solutions provides consumer product goods (CPG) manufacturers and retailers with a hosted, web-based solution for sharing, accessing and managing daily updates of retail data, such as point-of-sale (POS) or supply chain data. Retail Solutions combines a robust data warehouse with easy-to-use tools that enables customers to apply critical retail data to operational business processes.

For Manufacturers

• User-friendly, hosted interface to access the retailer data needed to achieve operational benefits, such as:
  • Improved sales performance and product assortment through better store/item analysis
  • Reduced out-of-stocks by targeting problem stores
  • Maximized ROI for trade promotions by understanding past effectiveness
  • Increased new item sales through better store distribution
  • Improved forecasting for production and distribution with true consumer demand analytics
• Easily tailored to fit specific retailer needs or formats
• Simplified access, management and analysis of retailer data for routine tasks as well as for custom needs
• Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering:
  • Does not require upfront investment or a long implementation process
  • Enables CPG companies to focus on retailer data usage rather than retailer data reception, loading and cleansing

For retailers

• High performance, flexible retail data service that provides suppliers with the timely and granular demand data they need to support operations, increase fill rate and reduce inventory
• Web-based reporting analysis interface delivers one consistent “view of the truth” across all your trading partners
• Implemented and supported by an experienced team of retail analysts and operations staff
• Multiple layers of security

• Architected for Performance
  • Open – designed to accept data from many sources and easily integrate with a wide variety of enterprise applications
  • Scalable – to meet current requirements and emerging demands, such as RFID and GTIN
  • Accurate – extensive data cleansing and validation
  • Timely – POS and other retail information updated daily
  • Secure – Authorized profiles for each user
• Optimized for Productivity
  • Functional – Standard reports for routine analyses
  • Customizable – Analytical cubing technology for more complex, drill-down analyses
  • Granular – By product, by store, by day data collected and reported
  • Flexible – Supports many metrics, many combinations of data attributes and simultaneous views from both manufacturer and retailer perspectives
• Easy to Use
  • Automated – Automatic report scheduling, deployment by email
  • Actionable– Data is complemented by strong analytic support from Retail Solutions team of retail experts