Company Wins Reader’s Choice Award in the Demand Data Analytics Category for Fourth Year in a Row
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The Analyst Viewpoint
If you have not talked to Retail Solutions on lessons learned from these pilots, you should. Retail Solutions is successfully managing a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model to help CP companies gain insights on inventory movement. This type of inventory fingerprinting is essential to better understanding promotion execution.
- Lora Cecere, AMR Research, '10 Cool Technology Applications for Consumer Products,' May 17, 2007
News Center
As the uncontested leader and the fastest growing company in its market, Retail Solutions is often referred to in the press and analyst reports. The News Center contains our press releases as well as a selection of our most recent coverage by analysts and trade publications.
February 2nd, 2010 (Award, Press Release)
Retail Solutions Ranked Number One in Customer Experience in Consumer Goods Technology Magazine’s 2010 Readers’ Choice Survey
January 14th, 2010 (Press Release)
Retail Solutions Continues Strong Growth in 2009, Sees Increased Focus on Enterprise-Wide Retail Execution Management Roll-Outs for 2010
Company Releases New Website, Updates Positioning to Address Fast-Growing Opportunity for Value Creation from Downstream Data in the CPG Industry
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November 30th, 2009 (In the News)
Food Lion’s Data and the Spider-Man Principle
Following the intervention by Troy Prothero of Food Lion at the 2010 Category Management Association Meeting, David Orgel, Editor-in-Chief for Supermarket News, gives his perspective on what it takes to build - and participate to - a downstream data sharing program.
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November 23rd, 2009 (Analyst Coverage)
2010: Six Predictions for Downstream Data
Lora Cecere, one of the leading analysts in the consumer packaged goods industry, gives a perspective on how operational retailer data will shape the industry in 2010.
“A downstream data information layer is a requirement to build outside-in or demand-driven processes. As companies accelerated their adoption of demand-driven processes in 2009, the use of downstream data increased. Although this isn’t happening fast enough for application providers in today’s crowded technology market, it is happening. Ever so slowly, the market is moving forward. It’s becoming a reality.”
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November 18th, 2009 (Analyst Coverage, In the News)
Phantom Inventory Creates Havoc in Retail Supply Chains
In his latest blog posting on Logistics Viewpoint, Steve Banker reviews how phantom inventory can cause out-of-stocks even before its level hits the replenishment threshold.
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November 9th, 2009 (Analyst Coverage, In the News)
What Causes Shelf Out-of-Stocks?
Steve Banker of ARC Advisory Group highlights some of the industry’s latest findings about the root causes of shelf out-of-stocks.
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October 21st, 2009 (Award, Press Release)
Retail Solutions Ranked Number 33 Fastest Growing Company in North America on Deloitte’s 2009 Technology Fast 500™
Company Ranks 3rd in the Software Category with a 6,488% Growth between 2004 and 2008
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October 15th, 2009 (Press Release)
Nestlé France Selects Retail Solutions to Create Value with Operational Retailer Data
Nestlé France to Work with Point-of-Sale Data from Multiple Retailers to Help with Out-of-Stocks, Inventory, Promotions and Product Launches
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October 13th, 2009 (Press Release)
Retail Solutions Opens First European Subsidiary
Establishes Office in Paris to Support Growing Demand for International Roll-outs
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October 1st, 2009 (In the News)
In Consumer Goods, A New Approach to Retail Replenishment
In a wide-reaching article covering new replenishment practices, Robert J. Bowman of Supply Chain Brain examines how retailer-supplier collaboration powered by new technology can help drive new performance levels: lower out-of-stock rates along with lower inventory.
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September 10th, 2009 (Press Release)
Co-Founder and Former CEO of Ariba Joins Retail Solutions Inc. Board of Directors
Keith Krach Appointed to Retail Solutions Board
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April 28th, 2009 (Analyst Coverage, In the News)
The First Moment of Truth
“Instead of the retailer spending tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars to build these DSRs, companies like Retail Solutions (RSi) build the DSR for retailers like CVS and Walgreens.”
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April 17th, 2009 (Analyst Coverage)
Reigniting the Fire: Why Is VMI Hot Again?
“Technologies for collaborative forecasting and multi-tier optimization have required redeployment of traditional APS technologies. Only recently have products evolved that are designed for vendor-managed inventory at the account level and use multiple sources of downstream data. Pilots by […] Retail Solutions are promising.”
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April 17th, 2009 (Analyst Coverage)
Trade Promotions: Are You Getting What You Pay For?
“Consider products from Retail Solutions to sense retail compliance on mass-merchant and drug-channel floor displays. The gap between retail planning and store execution is large and will not be closed any time soon. As a result, CP companies need to build compensating processes to sense out-of-compliance situations and automate alerts to the sales force for resolution.”
April 10th, 2009 (In the News)
P&G Leadership Puts Data to Action
“Retail Solutions Demand Signal Management is a critical foundation for many of the projects we run, and in this economy, having this level of business-centric visibility will be all the more important.” - Allan Barr, Operations Manager, P&G
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April 7th, 2009 (Press Release)
Retail Solutions Releases Forecasting Solution, with Unilever among First Customers to Roll-out
Unilever Reports Model will Improve Average Forecasting Accuracy by 9%
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March 27th, 2009 (In the News)
Reduced IT Budgets Favor Small Projects, On-Demand Models
“As the economic downturn shrinks budgets for supply chain IT investments, companies turn to smaller projects with fast implementations and on-demand delivery models.”
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March 24th, 2009 (Press Release)
Retail Solutions Launches Best Practice Webinar Series to Help CPG Companies Create Value with Retailer Data
Inaugural Webinar to Focus on Promotion Planning and Execution
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March 23rd, 2009 (Press Release)
Retail Solutions Holds Final Customer Advisory Meeting in Bentonville, Records Tremendous Participation
Meetings Attended by More Than 100 Participants from Over 30 Companies, Including 8 of the Top 10 Global CPG Companies
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March 23rd, 2009 (In the News)
POS Data Sharing Enables Kimberly Clark and Food Lion to Become Indispensable Partners
“Smart companies are taking collaborative action by sharing point-of-sale (POS) data to closely track sales and inventory movement.”
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