Enjoy More Profitable Merchandise Planning
Q Merchandising goes beyond traditional business intelligence tools that only provide insight – it helps you recommend action. With dashboards, Scorebooks and Playbooks designed specifically for retail merchandising executives, buyers, planners, and allocators, it’s easier for your entire team to increase sales, margins and inventory productivity by capitalizing on opportunities while solving problems. For instance:
- Buyers know which orders to cancel and which to accelerate.
- Planners know exactly how to factor in last season’s lost sales with next season’s plan.
- Allocators are provided with a concise listing of which stores are in the greatest need of specific merchandise.
- Executives can ensure the best high-level product mix and better manage key departments.
How does it work? Q Merchandising first analyzes your chain’s performance and identifies positive and negative trends in the business. Based on these trends, powerful QuantiSense Plays – including “Accelerate” and “Cancel” – comb through your POs and identify open vendor orders whose delivery should be rushed or halted based on recent and forecasted customer demand. For increased precision, calculations integrate in-transit and on-hand inventory based on vendor communications and deliveries.
High-Powered Retail Merchandising Solutions
With Q Mobile, all the KPIs and Plays are available either through a web browser or an app on your iPad so the merchandising team can drill-down, make decisions and take action while in Monday morning meetings or during store visits.Whether you are reviewing market basket analysis, setting localized merchandise assortments or analyzing retail promotion performance, QuantiSense can help.
Each role-based Scorebook offers deep retail merchandising analysis including:
At-a-glance summaries of top department KPIs that highlight top and bottom performers- Graphical views of sales and inventory productivity by product, SKU, channel, and vendor
- Market basket analysis that identify the items that pull within a category, store, district, region or chain
- Highlighted exception reporting for lost sales, stock outs, and overstock metrics
- Inventory aging analysis to keep watch on slow moving items and determine the impact of clearance markdowns on sell-through rates.
Ready to boost sell through while improving inventory planning? Check out the Q Merchandising solution sheet, or read our case studies.