Accelerated Analytics is very pleased to be sponsoring the Beauty Design Awards. The Beauty Design Awards celebrates the best of design in the Beauty Industry. 2023 is the fourth year of running the award. The award is founded and lead by beauty industry market research specialist Jennifer Carlsson. Accelerated Analytics’ customers Bubble and Youthforia were... Read more »
After crunching the numbers, the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) has found that January 2012 was the fourth warmest January on record across the contiguous United States. This is also the mildest January since 2006, which was the warmest in records dating back to 1895. States with a top 10 warmest January (9 total) –… Read more »
Getting your buyer to agree to push order recommendations, modular changes, SKU assortment changes, etc can be a challenge. Here is some practical experience on how to make it happen. Running a test with your buyer can be a very effective way to ‘sell them’ on new ideas. Many times our clients want to use… Read more »
Frequently Asked Questions Vendors are working hard to understand how to best use retail POS and inventory data, which is made available via EDI 852 or a web portal. Here are five very common questions vendors ask as they work with our team to put a data analysis solution in place. What is the difference… Read more »
When vendors think about managing inventory, quite often they immediately think of those stores with insufficient inventory and how to resolve that. Of course, this is a natural and valuable consideration, and a correspondingly considerable effort is made to eliminate inventory outages and prevent lost sales. But what of the flip side of that coin? … Read more »
The demand driven supply chain is a retail optimization model developed and made popular by AMR Research. AMR defines DDSN as a system of technologies and processes that sense and react to real-time demand across a network of customers, suppliers, and employees. AMR benchmark research shows that those who do not implement supply chain improvement… Read more »
The Accelerated Analytics® service provides category managers with a robust tool for analyzing sales and inventory at a store level. Not only for the current week, but also for all the weeks of selling in the database. Armed with this data, the category manager can very effectively identify slow moving items and stock-out’s on a… Read more »
The efficient consumer response (ECR) movement effectively began in the mid-nineties and was characterized by the emergence of new principles of collaborative management along the supply chain. The underlying premise was that by collaborating with trading partners, the supply chain could become more efficient, eliminate excess inventory, and ultimately provide a more efficient response to… Read more »
Why does an outsourced service make sense? Using an outsourced service for POS data analysis is a great idea, because loading data every week and managing servers is not your core business- it’s an expense. And worse yet, the data and technology change all the time, which makes them very expensive to manage in-house. Accelerated… Read more »
What is EDI 852 Data? There’s a number of benefits retailers can gain thanks to their EDI 852 data. Just in case you don’t know what EDI 852 is, let us explain it like this. EDI 852 files are usually referred to as “product activity data” or “product activity report.” A product activity report (EDI… Read more »
Retailers and vendors in today’s retail market face the unenviable challenge of reducing costs and maintaining margins, despite falling overall sales and slow-to-recover consumer demand. One of the areas in which retailers are pushing back onto vendors, is inventory management, which for vendors too often translates into retail partners that reduce overall inventories and require… Read more »
