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0.9689 Shelf-Centered Collaboration
... even closer to consumers. Retail organizations have traditionally worked closely with branded manufacturers, third-party logistics firms and other partners on broad business issues and to tackle specific distribution challenges. But in today's difficult retail environment, astute managers are taking ... Collaboration. The next and currently emerging stage of retail supply chain integration is shelf-centered collaboration. As its name suggests, this approach extends the power and efficiencies of supply chain collaboration to the retail shelf. This process starts at the pre-season stage—before the ... Retail organizations and branded manufacturers can now deploy a range of proven tools to build and support a shelf-centered collaboration program. Figure 1 highlights the shelf-centered collaboration capabilities that are required to successfully manage a product through its lifecycle in the retail ... 		Web Page
0.9474 Increase Profitability by Managing Local Market Assortments - Focus - Supply Chain Leader
... a challenging year for the American consumer. In the current economic downturn, retailers have been hit particularly hard: the Standard & Poor's Retail Index has declined by more than 30 percent over the past year. Yet leading retailers almost stubbornly continue to innovate and explore new ... to reflect local market preferences. Ross Stores, a leading off-price fashion retail chain, has developed a similar micro-merchandising focus (Ross Stores 2007 Annual Report, p. 4). All Retailing is Local Retailing is a local activity in as far as each transaction is a successful encounter with an ... the value those customers seek. Nonetheless, the tradeoffs cannot be understood until those customer segments are understood. The Retail Segmentation Challenge The retail segmentation problem is multidimensional: customer preferences vary not only by who they are, but also where they shop and when ... 		Web Page
0.9415 Leveraging POS Intelligence to Improve Retail Flow-Through - Supply Chain Leader
Focus: Leveraging POS Intelligence to Improve Retail Flow-Through Historically, consumer product companies have focused on "selling in" their products to the retail channel without paying adequate attention to the actual "selling out" to the end consumer. Since typical contracts safeguard retailers ... product can swing to a net operating loss solely because of the liquidation costs at EOL, with the rush to flush the old version out of the retail channel so that the new version can get its shelf space. In an industry where margins and product life cycles increasingly shrink, and growth is a ... management and monitoring sales execution in the retail stores. Retail channel management models In the past few years, multiple successful models of a mutually beneficial relationship centered on brand owners playing an active part in retail channel management have emerged. Among them are: The ... 		Web Page
0.9281 Private-Label Sourcing: What's Next After China? - Cover Story - Supply Chain Leader
... benefits that lured these retailers to China are turning into liabilities, and China is beginning to lose its appeal as a trading partner. One i2 retail customer describes the current environment in China as a period of "exponential changes" that are completely reshaping the country's economy and ... they can control —such as inventory management—and cutting their own profit margins drastically, since the soft U.S. economy will not tolerate retail price increases for most goods. But it is becoming increasingly clear that China is not a long-term, sustainable option for manufacturing ... on cost differentiation has become much less feasible, because of the enormous power of the well-established market leaders in the value-based retail segment. Even if China could continue to offer low-cost sourcing, it is doubtful that many retailers would continue to source their private-label ... 		Web Page
0.9281 5 Keys to Success in Advanced Retail Planning - Supply Chain Leader
5 Keys to Success in Advanced Retail Planning by Ajay Chidrawar, Adam Hatch and Chuck Kramer One of the biggest challenges that retailers face is keeping the right product mix on hand while keeping inventory levels as low as possible. This balancing act leaves little margin for error. Besides high ... can also be costly in terms of lost sales and disappointed customers. While one might argue that this balancing act has always been part of the retail industry, in the past few years, customer loyalty has been harder to come by in the face of fierce competition, and investor demands for operational ... planning, buying and assortment management, and allocation and replenishment. For instance, as AMR Research notes in its 2005 report on Advanced Retail Planning (ARP), financial plans related to merchandise are rarely aligned with those of other departments—or with supporting organizational and ... 		Web Page
0.9017 Preparing for the Re-Emergence of Demand
... leaders are making a second shift. They are realizing that, in today's new world, the entire value chain must work together to support a single moment of truth: for instance, the moment when a shopper enters the retail aisle, finds the product and makes a decision to purchase it. This requires the ... 		Web Page
0.8659 There's Power in POS Data - Not Just for Retailers, but for Suppliers Too - Supply Chain Leader
... drives the development of new technologies--systems that employ point-of-sale (POS) data and intelligent, exception-based scenarios for tuning retail supply networks to market demand. Visibility is the issue du jour in this era of rapidly moving products, and the ability to understand shelf-level ... on the amount of replenishment inventory on hand. POS data have played a part in category management since the 1980s, when Wal-Mart first put its Retail Link® supplier network in place. "Generally, POS data were somewhat dirty at first, but are a lot better now because retailers are using the ... excess inventory in another.While consumer products manufacturers have employed a variety of approaches to more proactively manage fast-moving retail channels, they are still falling far short. All errors--whether due to stockouts, inventory build-ups or other process breakdowns-- are costly to ... 		Web Page
0.8655 Customer-Centric Strategies for Assortment Management - Supply Chain Leader
... The proliferation of department stores, grocery store chains and big-box stores during the past two decades has ushered in dramatic changes to the retail landscape—rendering customer-centricity an increasingly elusive goal. This has resulted in the merchandise planning process becoming more ... to achieve substantial cost savings, it has slowly eroded their ability to connect with customers and meet their specific market needs. Retailing is rocket science! Meeting local market needs is just one of many factors contributing to the increasingly complex task of inventory management. How do ... consumer spending remains constricted. July 2009 marked the 11 th straight month of sales declines reported by retailers ("July sales drop shows retail pressure continues," www.reuters.com, August 3, 2009). August 2009 also saw lower back-to-school sales, which often reflect how stores will perform ... 		Web Page
0.8510 Old Navy Leverages Supply Chain Management Technology to Stay Lean and Green - Supply Chain Leader - i2
... management in the retail industry today, and the critical role of planning and preparation in Old Navy's implementation of i2 solutions. You've had quite a tenure with Gap, Inc., with more than 16 years of service. Obviously many significant changes have occurred within the retail industry during ... on your supply chain? It is very difficult. But we have one of the more rigorous—perhaps the most rigorous—reviews of a vendor base of anyone in retail. We have a team of more than 80 people around the world that assess factory conditions, and we monitor both direct suppliers as well as their ... 		Web Page
0.8510 Interview: Buying it Right at Sprint - Supply Chain Leader
... all of these devices. The distribution channels include the independent dealer/ agents, our national retail partners - such as Best Buy and RadioShack - and more than 1,300 Sprint-owned retail locations. In addition, Sprint has an extensive direct fulfillment effort utilizing the Web (Sprint.com ... 		Web Page
0.8510 Short Product Life Cycles Demand Innovation Throughout the Business - Supply Chain Leader
... process, partnerships and market strategy. The consumer goods marketplace has always been fast paced and unpredictable. After all, selling retail products is based on understanding the current needs of end users, then rapidly developing new offerings that address those needs before they inevitably ... goods marketplace even more difficult to navigate. Product life cycles have been slashed dramatically. The Internet's increasing importance as a retail sales channel has increased competition, often from smaller companies whose Web sites might look very similar. In addition to leveling the playing ... cycles. Why do many consumer goods businesses--even those with qualified executives, state-of-the art facilities, global resources and successful retail partners--struggle to achieve a profit today? And why do so many new products--even the truly revolutionary ones--fail? The answer is simple. While ... 		Web Page
0.8510 Articles by Industry - Supply Chain Leader
... Chain Management? by Michael Cohen Business Process Platform Helps Major Retailer Stay Competitive by John Kadlecek 5 Keys to Success in Advanced Retail Planning by Ajay Chidrawar, Adam Hatch, Chuck Kramer Planning at a Global Scale Pays Off for VF Corp., interview with Ellen Martin by Victoria ... Bossers back to top Process Cementos Argos Improves Profit Margins and Customer Service with New Strategic Planning by Lauren Bossers back to top Retail Channel Management Strategies When Times are Tough by Sweeni S. Ponoth Private-Label Sourcing - What's Next after China? by Gurdip Singh Increase ... Management Demands a Dynamic Partnership by Michael Aguilar Leveraging POS Intelligence to Improve Retail Flow-Through by Amarnath Thombre, Sanjiv Sidhu 5 Keys to Success in Advanced Retail Planning by Ajay Chidrawar, Adam Hatch, Chuck Kramer Planning at a Global Scale Pays Off for VF Corp ... 		Web Page
0.8351 i2 and the i2 User Group Announce Ken Sharma Awards of Excellence - Inside i2 - Supply Chain Leader
... data communications products and services to meet the needs of both individual and business consumers. Sprint operates more than 1,300 of its own retail locations while also selling through national third-party retailers. Sprint also sells direct through its own web site, sprint.com. With so many ... while enabling comprehensive reporting on specific key metrics. As a result, Sprint has reduced inventories at both the enterprise and retail store level while also increasing service levels. In addition, the improved business processes have enabled Sprint to better adapt to quickly changing ... help the company focus on the consumer and more closely integrate marketing and the supply chain to improve visibility from the factory to the retail shelf. Panasonic reports that its project with i2 enabled the company to bring inventory distribution and sales velocity into alignment, and to ... 		Web Page
0.8347 Cycle-Time Optimization - Column - Supply Chain Leader
... diverse marketplace, a one-dimensional strategy based on rapid store expansion is not enough to guarantee growth in either revenues or profits. Retail space is at a premium today, and consumers enjoy more shopping options than ever. They are often able to compare prices on the same product across ... 		Web Page
0.8347 Planning at a Global Scale Pays off for VF Corp - Supply Chain Leader
Interview: Planning at a Global Scale Pays off for VF Corp. Are the earlier technology tools still useful— tools like EDI? But with the longer lead time of the Far East, I'm not so sure. 		Web Page
0.8169 LG Sets Its Sights on Number One - Supply Chain Leader
LG Sets Its Sights on Number One What's the interaction like between you and the divisional or subsidiary supply chain leaders? Let's talk for a moment about the interaction with customers. 		Web Page
0.8169 Big is Beautiful at Panasonic - Supply Chain Leader
... category, we're going through 30–40 percent price deterioration every year. And it's a price deterioration based on products that have an average retail price of $5,000.We're also entering a market that is going to replace all of the traditional tube TV business that the average consumer has in his ... 		Web Page
0.8169 Supply Chain Leader - Articles by Category
... by Kirsten Monberg Guest Column: Total Channel Management Demands a Dynamic Partnership by Michael Aguilar Leveraging POS Intelligence to Improve Retail Flow-Through by Amarnath Thombre, Sanjiv Sidhu Beyond Business: American Red Cross Enlists Aid from Aidmatrix by Victoria Cooper There's Power in ... RFID) Technology Have on Supply Chain Management? (Adobe PDF) by Michael Cohen back to top Strategy Leveraging POS Intelligence to Improve Retail Flow-Through by Amarnath Thombre and Sanjiv Sidhu Can a Green Supply Chain Be an Efficient Supply Chain? by Guy Courtin What are the top priorities in ... Practices in Global Logistics by Razat Gaurav S&OP Best Practices Enable Consistent Profitability by Gaurang Pandya 5 Keys to Success in Advanced Retail Planning by Ajay Chidrawar, Adam Hatch, Chuck Kramer Setting the Context: Enabling Continuous Process Improvement as Never Before by John Cummings ... 		Web Page
0.8169 Best Practices - Supply Chain Leader
... by Kirsten Monberg Guest Column: Total Channel Management Demands a Dynamic Partnership by Michael Aguilar Leveraging POS Intelligence to Improve Retail Flow-Through by Amarnath Thombre, Sanjiv Sidhu Beyond Business: American Red Cross Enlists Aid from Aidmatrix by Victoria Cooper There's Power in ... Beyond Business: Technology Empowers Relief Efforts During Hurricane Katrina by Victoria Cooper Strategy Leveraging POS Intelligence to Improve Retail Flow-Through by Amarnath Thombre and Sanjiv Sidhu Can a Green Supply Chain Be an Efficient Supply Chain? by Guy Courtin What are the top priorities ... Practices in Global Logistics by Razat Gaurav S&OP Best Practices Enable Consistent Profitability by Gaurang Pandya 5 Keys to Success in Advanced Retail Planning by Ajay Chidrawar, Adam Hatch, Chuck Kramer Setting the Context: Enabling Continuous Process Improvement as Never Before by John Cummings ... 		Web Page
0.7967 Supply Chain Leader
... are required. #slcmsg# What is your industry? Select One Aerospace and Defense Automotive Consumer Industries High-Tech Industrial Metals Retail Transportation and Logistics Other What is your job title? *In which department do you work? How long have you worked in Supply Chain Management? 10 ... about specific i2 solutions? No Yes (if yes, please answer below) Please choose from the solutions below: Supply Management Plan Management Retail Management Inventory Management Logistics Management Manufacturing Management Channel Management Consulting Services Reporting Management Infrastructure ... 		Web Page
0.7967 The Supply Chain Leader Virtual Roundtable: Inventory Optimization
... More recently, our business model has changed significantly. For example, we have entered the retail channel. We now need to build some inventories based on forecasts just in time to meet the retail and distribution demands. With these changes, we have also needed to change our inventory management ... 		Web Page
0.7967 i2 and the i2 User Group Announce Ken Sharma Awards of Excellence Finalists
i2 and the i2 User Group Announce Ken Sharma Awards of Excellence Finalists Companies from across the high tech, manufacturing, retail and consumer products industries were recently named finalists for the Ken Sharma Award of Excellence. Co-sponsored by i2 and the i2 User Group, the annual award ... assortment planning to support change in its supply chain strategy, and to upgrade to supported software versions, Woolworths implemented i2 retail solutions. These implementations are expected to deliver significant increases in profits due to improved sales and cost savings. Depth and breadth ... 		Web Page
0.7967 Process Playbooks: Playing by the Rules - Issue 6 - Supply Chain Leader
... products like consumer electronics because they must also contend with ever-shorter product life cycles, fickle consumer preferences and shrinking retail margins. Every business has a top-level strategic plan, but today's volatile environment brings constant surprises that may throw that plan off ... industry: ensuring adequate inventory levels during product promotions. The PC trendsetter runs so many hugely successful promotions on its retail web site that it sometimes creates low inventory levels of its most popular hard drives, monitors and other product components. To maximize revenues and ... 		Web Page
0.7967 Taking Collaboration with Suppliers s Step Further - Supply Chain Leader
... are accepted by both parties. To add even greater impact, this wireless provider has extended its supplier collaboration strategy to its major retail customers.When these customers enter their own forecast data into the collaborative technology interface, this information travels back through the ... confidence that phones will be available, and can plan for the unexpected far in advance. Inventory levels have also been optimized, ensuring that retail customers are neither starved for product nor over-inventoried at any given time. Implementing global business processes Another company—a ... 		Web Page
0.7967 i2 in the News - Supply Chain Leader
... The Retail Technology Review September 2009 Reprinted from Supply Chain Leader, this article addresses how a continuous supply chain design process can help companies to succeed when faced with even the worst "what-if" scenarios. Channel management strategies when times are tough The Retail ... 		Web Page
0.7967 Supply Chain Leader magazine
... Anand Iyer Overcoming the New Demand Uncertainty by Robert Anson Managing the Human Element by Michael Levi Leveraging POS Intelligence to Improve Retail Flow-Through by Amarnath Thombre and Sanjiv Sidhu Issue 4 Short Product Life Cycles Demand Innovation Throughout the Business by Pallab ... Profitability by Gaurang Pandya Uncovering the True Costs of Global Sourcing by Kelly Thomas and Harish Iyer 5 Keys to Success in Advanced Retail Planning by Ajay Chidrawar, Adam Hatch and Chuck Kramer Supply Chain Study Shows Impact of Complexity by Kevin Lewis and Richard Sheinfeld Forecast ... 		Web Page
0.7961 Channel Management Strategies When Times are Tough - Supply Chain Strategy - Supply Chain Leader
Whether they exist at the strategic or the tactical level, process playbooks are based on a series of three actions that occur in a continuous cycle: Taking predetermined actions to address these root causes with a set of rules and contingency plans that have a high probability of leading to a specific outcome For instance, an SSR can use a questionnaire to collect tactical store intelligence such as which products are displayed where, what competitor models are also displayed and where, what... 		Web Page
0.7961 What are the top priorities in supply chain management for your business? - Supply Chain Leader
... takes time to build up momentum. But just like that flywheel, once it gets going, it generates a lot of power. Mike Griswold, Research Director, Retail AMR Research, Inc. One of the biggest issues for retailers over the next few years is the continued globalization of their supply chains as they ... 		Web Page
0.7961 Taking an Optimized Approach to Inventory Management - Supply Chain Leader
... chain. This approach also helps companies associate risks and identify the contingencies intended to guard against them. General merchandisers in retail are the most aggressive users of the affinities concept. Knowing that when customers come in to buy milk they also buy "product X" 20 percent of ... cater to demographic micro-segments of consumer preferences, while mass customization (see article, page 9) generates a proliferation of SKUs. Retail customers demand greater inventory visibility, shorter lead times and higher service levels. Suppliers must deal with volatile demand, a surge in ... 		Web Page
0.7961 Supply Chain Leader - Issue 2 - Supply Chain Management - i2
... parts costs may be reduced, the costs of running the supply chain may go up when sourcing globally. Download 5 Keys to Success in Advanced Retail Planning by Ajay Chidrawar, Adam Hatch and Chuck Kramer Keeping the right product mix on hand while keeping inventory low is a balancing act with little ... 		Web Page
0.7742 Getting Greener Together
... and to move toward a greener corporate position, companies must look beyond the borders of their own enterprise. An expanded ecosystem Most large retail and manufacturing organizations rely on diverse and complex supply chains. Once they have wrung measurable new efficiencies out of their own ... 		Web Page
0.7742 Social Marketing and Supply Chain Management: The Next Consumer Data Challenge—and Opportunity
Social Marketing and Supply Chain Management: The Next Consumer Data Challenge—and Opportunity Figure 1: Benefits of Social Media Marketing (% of Respondents, multiple response OK) What social intelligence means to retailers and consumer goods companies 		Web Page
0.7742 Recession-Resistant Demand Management Strategies and Tactics - Supply Chain Strategy - Supply Chain Leader
This is now: AMR Research's February report, “2009 Consumer Products Market Outlook: Anything but Business as Usual,” states unequivocally, “Never in our history have we experienced the level of demand volatility we'll see in 2009...85 percent of [consumer product companies interviewed] showed an increase in volatility at the end of 4Q.” For near-term forecasting, increase reliance on collaboration inputs from key customers. Escalate the most significant changes in demand patterns for manual ... 		Web Page
0.7742 Green and Lean: Kimberly-Clark Drives Sustainability through the Heart of its Supply Chain - i2 Case Study
... reduction and efficiency. Through its use of advanced supply chain management tools, it has saved money, moved a step closer to being an indispensible partner to its retail customers and proven that it is indeed possible to be both lean and green. Download the Adobe PDF version of this Case Study 		Web Page
0.7742 Fuel for Thought: Strategies for Counteracting Soaring Oil Prices - Issue 6 - Supply Chain Leader
... a rough equipment capacity plan, and possibly even establishing customer-carrier commitments. While many manufacturers and consumer goods and retail companies have established technology-enabled sales forecasting and/or sales and operations planning processes, very few have a corollary shipment ... 		Web Page
0.7742 Linking the CFO to Supply Chain Execution - Issue 6 - Supply Chain Leader
... product introductions aligned with end-to-end supply chain capabilities and financial indicators of demand, such as point-of-sale information from retail channels. How effective supply chain management benefits the CFO Effective supply chain management addresses the four key issues that follow ... 		Web Page
0.7742 Case Studies - Supply Chain Leader
... it customers, it turned to i2 Supply Chain Visibility. Related Content View all i2 Customer Results Aerospace and Defense Automotive and Industrial Consumer Industries Energy and Chemicals High-Tech Metals Pharmaceuticals Process Retail Telecommunications Transportation and Logistics 		Web Page
0.7742 Total Channel Management Demands a Dynamic Partnership - Supply Chain Leader
... objection from retailers that suppliers have to address is the fear of giving up "the power of the pen." Demand and forecasting personnel on the retail side may fear that transferring power to the supplier puts their jobs at risk. Therefore, suppliers must work to assure their partners that this new ... 		Web Page
0.7742 Supply Chain Leader - About i2 - Supply Chain Management - i2
... with Fairchild Semiconductor, Emerson,Timken Steel Group, and MIT Supply Chain 2020 by Michael Cohen Focus: Leveraging POS Intelligence to Improve Retail Flow-Through by Amarnath Thombre and Sanjiv Sidhu Viewpoint: The Power of Many: User Groups Spur Professional Growth by Kirsten Monberg News ... 		Web Page
0.7742 Supply Chain Leader - Issue 4 - Short Product Life Cycles Demand Innovation Throughout the Business
Managing Supply Chains in High-Growth Environments (See risk articles on pages 36 and 39.) Maximizing your investment in growth markets 		Web Page
0.7742 Transportation Management: Getting Onboard with Collaborative Capacity Planning
... can synchronize transportation planning with master planning cycles (in a manufacturing environment) or replenishment planning cycles (in a retail or distribution environment). The tactical transportation-capacity plan projects 1—13 weeks out and can be determined by leveraging actual orders (or ... 		Web Page
0.7742 Four Megatrends That Will Change Supply Chain Management - Supply Chain Leader
... the manufacturers and suppliers. The forces of capitalism, or to be more precise, opportunism, guaranteed that competition would flourish in the retail space. This was accelerated by the information revolution of Internet commerce as well as by the great distribution of wealth that occurred in the ... 		Web Page
0.7742 A Fresh Look at Customer Service Excellence - Supply Chain Leader
... to solution selling, combining sales, services and industry marketing into five industry-focused areas: transportation; consumer industries; retail; automotive, aerospace and defense, industrial and metals; and high tech. As a result, i2 can now focus on solving customers' supply chain problems and ... 		Web Page
0.7742 New Tools for a New Generation - Supply Chain Leader
... generations, the “buy side” was disconnected from the “sell side” of business; this is no longer the case with the new generation. Consider the retail example, where discounts are used to increase sales of products when there is more inventory than planned. But discounts are expensive. Demand ... 		Web Page
0.7742 7 Principles of Supply Chain Agility - Supply Chain Leader
The following capabilities allow multiple enterprises and organizations within one company to act as one: Closed-loop plan management is made up of the following capabilities: Proactive monitoring and analysis of threats: Agile companies monitor sales data at their door and at the channel outlets on a frequent—often, daily—basis. 		Web Page
0.7742 Supply Chain Leader - Case Studies
... Dynamic Demand in Electronics Business Process Platform Helps Major Retailer Stay Competitive More Case Studies Aerospace and Defense Automotive and Industrial Consumer Industries Energy and Chemicals High-Tech Metals Pharmaceuticals Process Retail Telecommunications Transportation and Logistics 		Web Page