Nothing seems to be able to slow down the discount store channel right now as Dollar General opens it’s 10,000th store.
“Opening the doors of our 10,000th store is a meaningful day for all of us at Dollar General, and we are excited to celebrate the occasion in California,” said Rick Dreiling, Dollar General’s chairman and CEO. “This milestone reiterates our commitment to bringing unmatched convenience and value to customers across the nation.”
The need for detailed POS analytics with 10,000 stores is hard to understate but the quantity of data produced from a chain of 10,000 stores is pretty massive. Even with a small number of SKU’s a vendor supplying to Dollar General has a large amount of data to analyze which makes exception reports critical. Working with our vendors we create inventory and sales exception reports to sort through the data quickly and make sense of it. For example, an inventory report at a store/SKU grain which identifies any out of stock or low weeks of supply is a fantastic tool for staying on top of inventory. We also use a sales exception report to identify any SKU/store with a large percentage change in sales over a rolling four week period.
Exception reports are the key to managing large amounts of data quickly. What exceptions are you monitoring?
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