PROBLEM Out-of-Stocks represent a potential sale, a chance for more revenue where a shelf sits empty. One West Coast supermarket retailer found that its biggest OOS opportunity could be narrowed to a group of just over a dozen major DSD vendo...
PROBLEM Challenged with effectively managing an intensely local assortment of over 200 items of college apparel across approx. 300 stores, this retailer wanted to ensure they had inventory in a “just in time” model for the right local and reg...
PROBLEM This supplier of seasonal, impulse-buy apparel was offered the opportunity to expand distribution from 40 stores to over 6,800 stores in a short timeframe. Additionally the vendor lacked the technology and bandwidth to order or perfor...
PROBLEM Mergers and acquisitions gained this nationally recognized baker additional distribution which included independent operators. It also gained them different technology systems that didn’t communicate with each other which made keeping...
PROBLEM Popular Grocer needed to replace outdated warehouse ordering system & improve stock conditions on top selling items. SOLUTION Visibility & Analytics We forecasted out-of-stocks, alerting the Category Manager with...
PROBLEM In-store deli sales were trending down 14%. Better performing items had 5% – 32% out-of-stocks. Limited presentation of too many items and the hot sellers were gone before end of day. SOLUTION Fresh Market Manage...
PROBLEM In-store bakery and deli margins were drained by poor production planning & high shrink at over 20%. Sales were flat vs. center store. SOLUTION Fresh Market Manager We forecasted hour-by-hour, store-by-store. We enab...
PROBLEM In-store bakeries were unable to execute an assortment plan and were lacking labor to routinely bake a large variety. Quality standards were also deteriorating from managing too many products Shrink Costs were excessive and increasin...
