ARC for food & grocery retail

Merchandise matters. From perishables to greeting cards on aisle six, these products represent pennies in the pocket, or money down the drain. Shifting the direction-taking action at the store level to change direction on a promotion, for example, requires "right now" merchandising analytics.

ARC Merchandising Analytics offers performance management at the shelf's edge, meaning that a store-level change about promotions or markdowns or other actions, can occur almost instantaneously. Actionable intelligence creates opportunities and diffuses most challenges.

The kinds of analytical capabilities required must extend from supplier to store, from associate to executive and impact every product, every decision, every day and include:

• Category Management - Providing information that leverages localized assortments, new product introductions and squeezing margins from every inventory dollar invested
• Controlling Out of Stocks - Predicting out of stocks in time to take corrective action, particularly on promotional items
• Loss Prevention - Exception based reporting that identifies and quantifies high probability shrink exposure by product, store, or employee
• Labor Analytics - Active analytics that help you match traffic, transactions, and staff levels to enhance customer service and minimize wasted labor expense
• Promotion Measurement - Assessing promotional ROI, by campaign, by item, and by market basket

With Manthan ARC, retailers are able to dynamically manage a large number of active product lines/SKUs to create unique merchandising propositions. ARC helps improve store range and depth to provide the right mixes in each locale, assists in determining sales trends and identifying the right merchandise to stock while offering the right promotions to the right customers.

Grocers have the potential to individualize every shopper's experience while accomplishing business objectives, from increasing shopper spend per visit to cross-selling promotions. With actionable intelligence gained from our solutions, store associates can gather and learn more about their customers, personalize offers to their most devout clients, maximize sell-through and-overall-optimize merchandising, from assortment mix to how new products perform.

• Loyalty Analytics - Provides consumer insights, and forecasts on retention, churn, and shows trends across segments
• Campaign Effectiveness - Once a promotion is launched, regardless of media type, its results and value can be measured in costs and ROI
• RFM Analysis - Identifies your best customers based on Recency, Frequency and Monetary Value
• On-Point Customer Strategies - Tactics to improve customer engagement are revealed in buying patterns and trends

Supplier and Portal Analytics for Grocers

With Manthan's Supplier Portal and Analytics (SPA), grocers gain instant access to measure all suppliers, not just some subset of top suppliers, and collaborate on key merchandising strategies. Any day and every day.

Through vendor performance tracking and score-carding, grocers are able to:

• Manage efficient and collaborative relationships with their suppliers
• Leverage better deals at optimal profit margins
• Provide the supplier with accurate information relating to their products performance in terms of sales, stock, current and future demand, and promotional effectiveness
• Shorten lead times to launch new products to a fraction of their current cycle time
• Cut administrative expense out of the supply chain

When both the retailer and the supplier are "on the same dashboard", the supplier is better able to supply products, and the retailer more consistently anticipates demand to help the supplier provision supply.

SPA drives retailer-supplier networks to new levels of process optimization and efficiency.