Increase Category Sales up to 25% and dramatically increase efficiency

Quickly Identify Easy-Win Sales OpportunitiesThe key to building stronger, more profitable, customer relationships is to take advantage of opportunities only available through more effective everyday category management. In an industry where turn rates and volumes are extremely high, optimizing assortments and identifying sales gaps can be a complex and time consuming undertaking. Doing so on a regular basis demands tools that allow you to focus on what customers are buying and act upon those insights quickly. From dramatically increased efficiency to measurable increases in sales, Aldata Range Manager delivers real return on investment for manufacturers and retailers.

Leverage Everyday Category ManagementAldata Range Manger enables you to automate and significantly improve the category management process. By analyzing market and customer data and then assessing retail performance at an aggregate or detailed level, Aldata Range Manager helps you to identify under and over-performance at the category, brand or any level of product segmentation. Opportunities for improvement are then identified, and recommendations are made for optimizing assortments and correctly balancing distribution, with the impact on sales being calculated for every proposed change. Put simply, this easy-to- implement, intuitive solution delivers all the information necessary to make bottom-line sales improvements.

The results are dramatic. Organizations using Aldata Range Manager increase productivity and sales. They save time on manual processes such as data manipulation and report creation, and use this time to increase analytical review and strategic planning. This increase in efficiency means reviews can be undertaken daily if desired, allowing for quick and easy identification of incremental sales opportunities periodically or on an everyday basis. As a result, the time taken to complete category management reviews is reduced by as much as 80% and category sales are improved by 5% to 25%.

n Increase category sales by 5% to 25%

n Shorten time to complete category reviews by up to 80%

n Quickly identify easy-win sales opportunities

n Be ready to conduct analysis on demand

n Increase productivity by automating data manipulation and report creation

Aldata Range Manager

Increase Category Sales up to 25%, Dramatically Improve Efficiency

Aldata Range Manager delivers a rapid return on investment because implementation takes days or weeks, not months or years.

The solution enables you to:

Reduce the time and resources required for category reviews by up to 80% With an automated category review process you can reduce the time to perform full category reviews from weeks or months to a single day, and for higher level reviews from days to hours. Aldata can also optimize data management processes ensuring that category reviews require minimal upfront resource.

Optimize product assortment and distribution You can compare customer and market data with retailer performance to identify opportunity gaps at the category, brand or any level of product segmentation. You can also pinpoint the areas to improve and automatically produce recommendations by adjusting the range and assortment, and re-balancing distribution.

Achieve true customer-centric results by integrating assortment and space With the seamless link between Aldata’s leading Space and Assortment solutions, category managers can collaborate more effectively to deliver automated store-specific planograms that combine assortment decisions with a store’s unique space constraints and local customer demographics.

Manage categories by exception Cut out the tedium of repeating the same process for every single analysis and simply look across your categories, retailers and store types to see where the opportunities and distribution gaps exist.

Automatically calculate the impact of category management decisions Optimization gives you the unique ability to run “what if” scenarios which automatically calculate the impact of product assortment and distribution changes. In short, you can base your actions on reliable sales projections.

Increase category sales by 5% to 25% through Everyday Category Management With Aldata Assortment Optimization you can review the category more frequently because the system is efficient and easy to use. By optimizing assortments and distribution on a periodic or everyday basis it provides all the information you require to identify quick wins, and deliver measurable value to your customers.

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About AldataAldata is a global leader in retail and distribution optimization. Our software and service solutions help retailers, distributors and manufacturers dramatically improve their business performance. We optimise categories, space, supply, logistics, and consumer engagement to increase our customers’ revenue and margins, reduce time, cost and waste, and enhance on-shelf availability, service, and retention. Founded in 1988, Aldata has an unparalleled track record of delivering successful projects for the world’s largest retail and consumer brands, national wholesale and distribution organizations, and regional store chains. Discover more about Aldata’s customers, our solutions, and the multi-skilled global team that supports them at www.aldata.com