June 2006 - Vendor Compliance Optimization and Retail Continuous Improvement Update

Optimize the Supply Chain? When retailers go head-to-head, it is often the performance of their supply chains that determines who comes out on top.
Best-in-class vendor compliance solutions drive supply chain improvement, while adding dollars directly to the bottom line and providing complete accountability, visibility, and predictability into supply chain activities.
Is vendor compliance optimization that powerful? Yes. It improves merchandise flow, reduces supply chain costs, provides essential business intelligence, and enables continuous retail performance improvement.
Who? What? When? Where?
Exactly. With accurate, objective, and complete supply chain information, retail leaders can bring their extended retail industry stakeholders together to:

·  Communicate business requirements, and the successful or failed execution of these requirements,

·  Publish fair, objective, and comprehensive vendor scorecards,

·  Recover the costs of correcting vendor shipping discrepancies,

·  Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders,

·  Anticipate and respond to stakeholder performance and,

·  Make informed operational decisions that optimize execution of the merchandising plan,

·  Optimize merchandise and other operational plans.

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