SAS Solutions For The
Grocery Industry
Stay several steps ahead of consumer demand with SAS
Retailers in all segments are facing more challenges than ever before; primarily, the need for greater customer-centricity in their businesses, changing customer demographics, rising expectations, the globalization of supply chains, extremely efficient mega-merchants, and an increasing level of uncertainty as to what the future holds in a hypercompetitive and evolving marketplace.
Competing as a 21st Century Retailer:
Maximizing profitability in a consumer-centric world
It is all about driving results. If you're a retailer, what is the best way to do it? Traditionally, retailers have pinned their hopes on the creative ideas of their top merchants and marketers. Even the best creative ideas, though, need backup from detailed customer, product and operational data in our more consumer-centric world. And the retail business team, not the IT department, needs detailed analyses to see what's selling in New York, what needs to be discounted in London and who is responding to the latest marketing campaign.
The Retail "Holy Grail"
Competitive Advantages of Assortment Planning
What products should be stocked in each store? In which sizes? Where should each product be merchandised within the stores? Which items should be promoted? These are the classic merchandising questions, and they are just as important today as always — only now they're harder to answer due to the much larger scale of most retailers.
Analytic Intelligence in Retail
Transform data from existing systems into predictive insights that dramatically increase revenues and profitability.
Every day, retail organizations ask two related questions:
- How can we maximize revenues from our product offerings, retail outlets and customer relationships?
- How can we maximize profitability without eroding the quality of our products, the shopping experience or customer satisfaction?
Read this White Paper to find out how advanced analytics, including statistics, data mining, optimization and forecasting, give retailers a robust way to understand what is happening and what could happen in their business with quantified accuracy. You will learn about specific applications for analytics in marketing, merchandising, operations and performance management.
Are you ready for RFID?
The promise and challenges of implementing Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems across the extended supply chain.
Radio frequency identification (RFID) is spreading quickly through the global network of supply chains. The technology promises improved efficiency and more accurate tracking — along with untold amounts of data. Read this White Paper to get a brief introduction to RFID and learn about a variety of SAS technologies that can help you harness the value of your RFID-related data. Such technologies include data quality, business intelligence, predictive analytics and even retail-specific applications.
Merchandising Dominance through Revenue Optimization
A White Paper by SAS and Kurt Salmon Associates.
Competition in retail is ever more intense as companies face slow domestic growth, rapid increases in selling space, and new and innovative channels and formats. To achieve merchandising dominance, it is critical to improve core merchandising processes.
This White Paper will give you a head start in evaluating the potential of revenue optimization to deliver significant, sustainable profit improvements. You will learn about the key components of revenue optimization, the steps required to implement such a system and the lessons learned by several companies who have already implemented this technology.
This White Paper, written by Butler Group, first provides a brief overview of Butler's vision for the advanced deployment of BI technologies according to this end-to-end process. It then focuses on the SAS Industry Intelligence Solutions for Banking, Insurance and Telecommunications, outlining the industry-specific, model-driven architecture of these advanced BI solutions, which allows them to be implemented quickly and easily.
Size Optimization for Retailers
How to effectively stock sizes of each item in each store — into
a profitable advantage
In a perfect world, retailers would always have just the right assortment of merchandise — in the ideal mix of sizes — at each store. However, that has been difficult to achieve on a consistent basis for assortments with tens of thousands of stock keeping units (SKUs) across thousands of stores. Traditional methods that rely on the use of "top down" chain averages have been overwhelmed by this complexity. Even if detailed size profiles were available, there remained the question of how to integrate this knowledge into assortment and allocation decisions.