| Multi-Store Retailer
Results from the bottom up
Every consumer purchase is a piece in an ever-changing puzzle, a clue leading to greater profitability. Yet making sense of this avalanche of numbers is impossible without a dynamic automated tool specifically designed to properly analyze such enormous amounts of data and provide extraordinarily precise planning guidelines. The power of RMSA’s multi-store solution lies in automated, deep-level forecasting, performed from the bottom up. While many stores base decisions on summary data or top-down forecasting, RMSA’s process generates a dynamic profit plan for every classification in every store—automatically. Our process is the single most accurate way to gauge the true performance of every store, and it’s the reason our multi-store clients consistently outperform industry averages, year after year.
Retail Intelligence
Driving our forecasting solution is Retail Intelligence™, the vast set of proprietary algorithms and databases that enable us to analyze each store’s performance by classification, and generate individual automated forecasts and profit plans that are up to 98% accurate. Programmed to think like a retailer, Retail Intelligence takes your sales data and automatically asks:
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Were sales above or below last year and plan?
Were sales profitable?
Was there enough inventory?
Were receivings adequate?
Is the inventory fresh?
Are markdowns needed?
Is turnover appropriate?
Were sales trending up or down during the last 90 days?
Are transfers necessary?
Should the forecast be adjusted because inventory is too high or too low?
Does the on-order match the open-to-receive?
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Armed with this valuable knowledge base, your Merchandising Analyst works with you and your management team to identify—and put into practice—the most profitable course of action for each classification in each store. As new data is generated, our system adjusts your forecast and profit plan automatically, delivering an up-to-the-minute forecast of sales, inventories, markdowns and receipts.
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