Solutions for Supermarket RetailersMarket6 is helping Supermarket Retailers better manage inventory in the "last mile" of their supply chain through automated store ordering. As a result, these Market6 customers are improving customer service while reducing working capital, increasing sales by reducing out-of-stocks, keeping fresher product on the shelves, and increasing inventory turn.
DemandView™ Information Services provides a CAO-ready database that puts intelligent, automated ordering in the hands of route drivers.
The Market6 Store Order Portal™ is a web application that helps department managers make intelligent decisions based on upcoming consumer demand, balance-on-hand inventory, upcoming promotions and incoming shipments. Armed with this information, the Store Order Portal makes ordering recommendations that have proven to be more accurate than other alternative best practices.
The accuracy of Market6 forecasts in demand and store-level inventory improves ordering applications to deliver better orders. Market6 has repeatedly helped customers improve customer service and increase sales by reducing out-of-stocks. More importantly, Market6 has helped post these gains while lowering store inventory and reducing shrink.
What this means to our Supermarket Retail customers is lower inventory, better customer service, reduced shrink, and increased sales from reduced out-of-stocks.
Applications used to support Automated Store Ordering are DemandView™ Information Services, OOS anticipation and monitoring, Store Order Portal and DemandView™ Reporting.
StoreLevel Execution enables retailers to prevent out-of-stocks and distribution voids, better monitor in-store promotions and new item introductions.
DemandView™ anticipates and monitors demand to predict out-of-stock occurances, identify distribution voids, and track new item performance against expectations so that corrective measures can be quickly taken - often before the problem hits the shelf.
DemandView™ improves promotions monitoring by generating a forecast by item, by store, by day for each day of the promotion. These Expected Sales numbers are dramatically more accurate than existing best practices in promotion planning.
Promotions are then monitored daily by comparing Actual Sales versus Expected Sales. Differences in these numbers point to stores that are under-executing the promotion. These stores can then be checked for marketing, category management or inventory issues to improve the promotion execution in nearly real time.
Category Management and Supply Chain information can be shared with vendors via a portal to synchronize efforts and align with department objectives.
Applications used to support Store Level Execution are DemandView™ Information Services, OOS anticipation and monitoring, and DemandView™ Reporting.