Inventory Planning and Reporting Solutions
IT STARTS WITH THE DATA
Smart companies manage inventory by the numbers, not by chance.
Optimize the gathering, managing & interpretation of retail data.
Our inventory planning solutions help you collect, scrub, scrutinize and validate all your POS data. Furthermore, we integrate it with wholesale inventory or any other 3rd party data on one platform.
Inventory Planning Solutions
Inventory is your capital investment. To get the highest rate of return you need to optimize the use of it. Accordingly, our systems and expertise enable you to optimize productivity in innovative ways.
BI Forecast
A more modern way of inventory planning, fully customizable. Integrates the power of ERS’ backend computing with ERP and Microsoft’s PowerBI platform to deliver a best in class forecast.
Open to Buy
One of the most essential functions in retail inventory planning just got easier. Combining the strength of ERS’ backend data management and intelligence with Microsoft’s Power BI enables retailers and manufacturers to manage inventory budgets not possible with spreadsheets.
Item Planner
This is the must-have tool for planners who need to consistently monitor sales, inventory and profitability of their retail programs. Additionally, conduct “what-if” scenarios to help determine the optimal pricing and inventory flow.
Vendor Managed Inventory
Our automated and customizable solution combs through SKU-store data looking for imbalances between sales and inventory levels and recommends the appropriate allocation.
Wholesale Shipment Data Analysis
Using shipment data, you can inject more intelligence into your inventory planning process to understand what works to help reduce the risk of owning unwanted inventory.
Allocation Improvement Manager
Combs through SKU-store data to look for lost sales opportunities and creates new model stocks.
Sales & Inventory Reporting Solutions
We offer a wide range of inventory planning solutions, including do-it-yourself reporting tools, custom-designed reports and dashboards based on your needs and delivered directly to you and your team.
POS Reporting
Lost Sales
Free form reporting and dashboards that uses grids, charts & graphs, pivot tables, Google Visualizations and more. Customized to your data points and product attributes.
Smart Reporting
What makes a report great? It comes down to how often it gets used and how much insight it provides. We strive not only to make great reports – but smart reports.
Our Results Show the Power of Automation
By implementing our planning process, a fast-growing CPG distributor improved in-stock levels by over 20%. Automating their buying activities now saves an average of 3 days of work each week.
A leading manufacturer uses our BI platform to track their retail businesses- from their own direct sales to the major chains. What used to take them 8-10 hours per week is now a 15 minute process.
A well known Shoe and Leather Goods brand and retailer uses our automated VMI solution, improving brick and mortar and on-line in-stocks by 25% while reducing total ownership without missing any sales.
A custom built allocation improvement dashboard enabled a leading home textiles manufacturer to reduce lost sales by 22% and uncovered other opportunities that would otherwise go unnoticed.
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