The Analyst Viewpoint

Consumer goods manufacturers that want to assess a low-cost/low-risk SaaS-based approach - to address the challenges of retail data sharing to improve data visibility and increase the success of promotions, new product introductions and day-to-day shelf availability - should evaluate RSi.

-Peter Bambridge,
Gartner Group

Platform

Integration

Retail Solutions has more experience with retailer downstream data, such as point-of-sale (POS), inventory, merchandiser feedback or category data than any company in the Retail Execution Management field.

For our customers, the data we manage, covering over 30 global retailers in the Americas and in Europe, including 9 of the top 10 American Food, Drug and Mass retailers, has become the foundation of many legacy applications across the enterprise. Retail Solutions provides an easy and flexible integration approach to ensure our customers can incorporate downstream data into their existing processes, applications and databases.

Retail Solutions customers have integrated our data into many applications:

Demand planning solutions: Retail Solutions data feeds the most commonly used demand planning and forecasting solutions to improve the quality of forecast and internal Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) processes
Inventory management and replenishment solutions: Retail Solutions integrates into the leading Vendor-Managed Inventory (VMI) or Direct Store Delivery (DSD) solutions, to ensure you manage your replenishment based on sell-through rather than on sell-in
Enterprise data warehouses (EDWs): Retail Solutions feeds internal data warehouses to align internal data with downstream data
Retail execution solutions: Retail Solutions can integrate its alerts and reports into existing handheld infrastructure to optimize the work of your merchandisers in the stores