ERS Retail Consulting
Our Expertise and Retail Consulting Experience Make Us Different
Our approach is active involvement, and our clients find it refreshing. Engagements begin by learning how a client’s organization works through understanding resource limitations, the planning process, and company goals. We then recommend the most efficient and affordable solution to achieve them.
Personal Relationships
Unlike traditional software companies, you can actually pick up the phone and get business advice.
Extension of your Team
We can meet you at whatever level of engagement is appropriate for your business.
Training & Coaching
We don’t just offer software – we also write planning processes and help coach your team to success, significantly improving their acumen.
Flexibility & Support
We are a service-oriented business. Unquestionably, meeting your needs is our top priority – from data to brainstorming.
Retail Consulting Engagements
Reporting & planning
Simple or complex custom reporting with interpretation of data. Retail, wholesale, SKU, store, category management, etc.
retail triage
Perform needs analysis to determine most actionable goals to quickly improve performance, SKU rationalization.
software development
Agile development from local apps to enterprise level systems. Planning systems, custom reports, etc.
margin negotiation
Provide a sliding scale of options that generally improve negotiations intelligently between retailer and supplier.
vmi & forecasting
We orchestrate and automate VMI setup- breaking down the rules and requirements to service the retailer.
walmart planning
Our retail consultants help vendors with retail link, improve OTIF, detailed reporting, help with the creation of SSO’s and more.
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Getting Started with ERS Retail Consulting
Our consulting engagements vary greatly – from simply delivering a set of reports every week to creating and implementing an entire planning process. We can complement your team by filling in the gaps or become your outsourced planning department. Additionally, our software development arm enables us to create small dashboards to enterprise level systems.
Engagement
Our team goes to work providing the service agreed upon in the scope of work. Communication is key! There is constant feedback and consultation between your team and ours.
Define Scope of Work
Our team meets with yours to understand your organization, technical capability, your goals and what the scope will be. Then we determine what resources will be required to fulfill the goals and timelines. Finally, a cost proposal is created.
Delivery & Follow Through
Results are measured frequently and time is tracked on a monthly basis. Resources can be increased or decreased as needed.
Check Out Our Discipline Planner
Let us help you create or improve your planning process by detailing our time tested schedule that organizes your pre-season, weekly, monthly and post season activities.
Put Our 20+ Years of Experience to Work
ERS consulting often connects directly to the reporting, forecasting, and data tools clients use to make better retail decisions. Explore the areas below to see how ERS turns hands-on expertise into clearer insights, stronger planning, and more usable reporting.
BI Dashboards
See how ERS turns retail data into interactive dashboards that help teams monitor performance and and make faster decisions.
POS Reporting
Learn how ERS helps retailers, suppliers, and brands turn POS data into clearer sales, inventory, and performance insights.
POS Data Management
Understand how ERS collects, cleans, validates, and organizes retail data so your reporting forecasting tools can work reliably.