Visibility and Decision support
SPA offers a range of superior analytics and decision-support features that allow you to share a single version of the truth with your suppliers and internal departments on a wide range of critical parameters.
SPA lets you decide the information you would like to share and the extent to which you wish to give access to stakeholders, based on roles and levels in both retailer and supplier organizations and as per terms with your suppliers.
In addition, SPA provides you self-service access to a range of pre-built retail-centric Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) across retailer vis-à-vis vendor interface.
- Sales
- Sales by SKU, region, distribution centers, stores
- Category wise, vendor wise, in-stock, on-time and in-full analysis
- Top movers, slow movers
- Category management decisions
- DOH inventory analysis for Effective Replenishment performance and corrective action
- Fill rates of vendors
- Out of stock: Category wise, vendor wise, SKU wise
- Stock ageing
- Excess – short inventory
- Margins Analysis:
- Incoming and retained margin
- Promotion effectiveness
- New product introduction performance
- Liquidation needs
- Return to vendor decision-making and analysis
- Promotion effectiveness analysis and decision making
- Purchase order and payments
- Ordered to overdue analysis, purchase and receipt growth
- Pending POs, exceptional POs
- Accounts payable analysis
- Supplier score card / vendor rankings:
- Joint business planning
- Result-oriented vendor meetings
- Space selling income and other income analysis:
- Overview of ‘other incomes’ generated by your retail business in addition to trading margins
Retailers are driving greater visibility into their supply chain operations for improved efficiency and performance.
