Company Wins Reader’s Choice Award in the Demand Data Analytics Category for Fourth Year in a Row
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Featured Customer
Lora Cecere, AMR:
Why did you adopt the Retail Solutions algorithm?
J.P Brackman, P&G:
It was easy. Their algorithm was out-performing ours. We tested theirs against ours and found that their systems was detecting 5-8x more OOS conditions than we were getting from our algorithm. [...] We were able to improve the ROI on the technology
to 5x original
expectations.
-J.P Brackman, Procter & Gamble, in AMR Research, Procter & Gamble Takes Action on Out of Stocks.
December 2007
RSi Pulse: Our Blog
From customer success stories to press releases and from thought leadership to news and analyst coverage, our blog, RSi Pulse, contains all the relevant recent news about Retail Solutions.
February 2nd, 2010 (Award, Press Release)
Retail Solutions Ranked Number One in Customer Experience in Consumer Goods Technology Magazine’s 2010 Readers’ Choice Survey
January 14th, 2010 (Press Release)
Retail Solutions Continues Strong Growth in 2009, Sees Increased Focus on Enterprise-Wide Retail Execution Management Roll-Outs for 2010
Company Releases New Website, Updates Positioning to Address Fast-Growing Opportunity for Value Creation from Downstream Data in the CPG Industry
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November 30th, 2009 (In the News)
Food Lion’s Data and the Spider-Man Principle
Following the intervention by Troy Prothero of Food Lion at the 2010 Category Management Association Meeting, David Orgel, Editor-in-Chief for Supermarket News, gives his perspective on what it takes to build - and participate to - a downstream data sharing program.
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November 24th, 2009 (Case Study)
Reducing Out-of-Stocks with More Effective Planograms
In this exclusive Retail Solutions case study, the J.M. Smucker Co. explains how they leveraged downstream data to decrease out-of-stock levels for the Dunkin’ Donuts coffee range. This case study describes how the company designed a planogram based on actual retail execution data and managed to not only achieve their availability objectives but also to generate a significant sales increase.
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November 23rd, 2009 (Analyst Coverage)
2010: Six Predictions for Downstream Data
Lora Cecere, one of the leading analysts in the consumer packaged goods industry, gives a perspective on how operational retailer data will shape the industry in 2010.
“A downstream data information layer is a requirement to build outside-in or demand-driven processes. As companies accelerated their adoption of demand-driven processes in 2009, the use of downstream data increased. Although this isn’t happening fast enough for application providers in today’s crowded technology market, it is happening. Ever so slowly, the market is moving forward. It’s becoming a reality.”
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November 18th, 2009 (Analyst Coverage, In the News)
Phantom Inventory Creates Havoc in Retail Supply Chains
In his latest blog posting on Logistics Viewpoint, Steve Banker reviews how phantom inventory can cause out-of-stocks even before its level hits the replenishment threshold.
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November 9th, 2009 (Analyst Coverage, In the News)
What Causes Shelf Out-of-Stocks?
Steve Banker of ARC Advisory Group highlights some of the industry’s latest findings about the root causes of shelf out-of-stocks.
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November 6th, 2009 (Event)
Retail Solutions Holds Final 2009 Best Practice Sharing Groups
More than 85 attendees representing 31 distinct companies attended the two events held on October 29 in Chicago and on November 5 in Charlotte.
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November 4th, 2009 (Event)
Results from Food Lion Vendor Pulse Highlighted at Three Leading Industry Events
Vendor Pulse, Food Lion industry leading data sharing program is quickly becoming a staple of industry events. At three separate industry events, Food Lion and its suppliers presented the tangible results they were able to achieve when an effective data sharing program is bundled with an open approach focused on collaborative, actionable business processes.
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October 21st, 2009 (Award, Press Release)
Retail Solutions Ranked Number 33 Fastest Growing Company in North America on Deloitte’s 2009 Technology Fast 500™
Company Ranks 3rd in the Software Category with a 6,488% Growth between 2004 and 2008
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October 15th, 2009 (Press Release)
Nestlé France Selects Retail Solutions to Create Value with Operational Retailer Data
Nestlé France to Work with Point-of-Sale Data from Multiple Retailers to Help with Out-of-Stocks, Inventory, Promotions and Product Launches
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October 13th, 2009 (Press Release)
Retail Solutions Opens First European Subsidiary
Establishes Office in Paris to Support Growing Demand for International Roll-outs
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October 1st, 2009 (In the News)
In Consumer Goods, A New Approach to Retail Replenishment
In a wide-reaching article covering new replenishment practices, Robert J. Bowman of Supply Chain Brain examines how retailer-supplier collaboration powered by new technology can help drive new performance levels: lower out-of-stock rates along with lower inventory.
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September 10th, 2009 (Press Release)
Co-Founder and Former CEO of Ariba Joins Retail Solutions Inc. Board of Directors
Keith Krach Appointed to Retail Solutions Board
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July 23rd, 2009 (Case Study, Webinar)
Getting Ready for Hannaford Vendor Pulse
In this webinar, Scott Craig, Director of Supply Chain Services, Hannaford, describes the new Vendor Pulse data sharing program. Through this program, Hannaford shares operational point of sale and inventory data with suppliers, to provide suppliers with unprecedented visibility into shared business operations and enable them to leverage this visibility and turn it into actionable insights to help solve business issues and drive joint business growth. By listening to this replay, you can learn what data Hannaford shares, at what level of granularity; how Hannaford and suppliers expect to create value and growth through this initiative; and how Hannaford vendors can participate in the program.
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July 14th, 2009 (Webinar)
Best Practice Series Webinar #3: Measuring Promotion Execution
Following the first two events on promotion design and planning, the third webinar in our best practices series focuses on execution. “Measuring Promotion Execution from the Factory to the Shelf” is now available for replay exclusively for Retail Solutions customers.
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June 30th, 2009 (Case Study)
Unilever: Optimizing Shelf Availability on Multi-Week Promotions
Unilever named Food Lion Vendor Pulse Supplier of the Month for June 2009
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May 26th, 2009 (Case Study)
Coca-Cola: Optimizing a New Package Introduction
Coca-Cola named Food Lion Vendor Pulse Supplier of the Month for May 2009
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May 19th, 2009 (Webinar)
Best Practice Series Webinar #2: Plan for Success
Our second webinar in our best practices series, “Plan for Success: Best Practices for Promotion Planning” is now available for replay exclusively for Retail Solutions customers.
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May 19th, 2009 (Webinar)
Food Lion and Kraft Foods on the Power of Data-Sharing, a Supermarket News Webinar
Food retailers have increasingly come to recognize the value of sharing retail intelligence such as POS and inventory data with their suppliers. One of the largest data-sharing programs is Vendor Pulse, which Food Lion has launched during the past year. The Salisbury, N.C.-based retailer, which operates more than 1,200 stores, now shares a wide array of daily retail data and scorecard calculations with more than 80 vendors in what has grown to be a mutually rewarding collaborative venture.
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