Keep Your Shelves Full with Critical Data & Expert Analytics
Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) vendors have a large number of SKUs and most of them have a high sales volume. Products turn quickly and having full shelves is vital – an empty shelf is the stuff of your worst nightmare especially if your competitors’ products are on the shelf next door! Your ability to track displays, plan-o-grams and customer promotions is critical.
Now add in the challenges of selling in multiple retailers, ranging from big box stores to specialty boutiques, and with data coming through in multiple formats, such as EDI, Excel, and portal files. Often, the data doesn’t match and pulling it all together each week can be very frustrating and time consuming. Forget having time to actually act on what the data is telling you! The challenges don’t end there . . . add the need to track products with foreign language versions and cross reference retailer-specific SKUs, and you have an overwhelming amount of data to manage!
Accelerated Analytics has extensive experience working with CPG vendors to address and overcome these challenges. We have the knowledge and experience to work with all of your retailers like The Home Depot, Lowe’s, Wal-Mart, Sephora, Ulta and others. Plus, we take the data a step further by integrating your item catalog, shipping data, mark down information and other key files for a comprehensive reporting solution.
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ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE
Imagine it’s first thing Monday morning and your team needs the latest sales data.
You log in to the Accelerated Analytics portal, and in under 20 minutes you’re able to pull the reports and give everyone exactly what they need. You’ve e-mailed a scorecard of top-line business results across all of your retailers to the executives; you’ve sent SKU/store level reports of units and dollar sales, sell thru, and percent-to-plan data to the field sales teams; and your planners have already accessed the exception reports on their smart devices so they can address store-level sales and out-of-stocks with their buyers. You also gave them forecast and recommended order reports to make their day even easier. Boom!
Business Planner
You’re about to meet with a buyer from your key account.
Just before your meeting, you log in to the Accelerated Analytics portal to access historical data. Based on past sales, you’re able to easily predict inventory needs and suggest order quantities to the buyer. You have a promotion coming up, and you’re ready to monitor price points and the success of your promotion in this retailer versus their competitors.
Field Rep
You’re about to visit your stores.
You have all of the exception data you need – where you’re out of stock, where stock isn’t moving (better check for the box in a back room!) and more – and with Accelerated Analytics now you can take that information with you into the stores on your iPad. Instead of showing up at a store and walking the floor to see how your business is doing, or waiting for the manager to provide you with sales numbers, you have the information in hand and can address each store’s individual issues. Technology rocks!
IT Manager
It’s Monday morning and your company just launched the Accelerated Analytics tool last week.
You arrive at work and unlike every previous Monday, you don’t have to spend hours collecting data from your retailers, calling retailers to find late data, or logging into portals to manually pull information. Are you in an alternate dimension? Nope. Your reporting solution with Accelerated Analytics is simply in production! The data that your team relies on has already been collected and harmonized by Accelerated Analytics, and the reports have been automatically distributed to your end users. Your voicemail isn’t full of messages from the sales and field teams asking where their reports are, because they already have them, and can focus on hitting their sales goals and filling inventory gaps. If there’s something else they need, they now have the tools to research the information themselves. Across your organization, everyone is looking at the same reports and is on the same page. You’ve eliminated a major drain on your resources, and the ROI is already being felt throughout the company. You grab a cup of coffee and start working on a new technology initiative that’s been on the back-burner for months. It’s going to be a productive week!
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