Supply Chain Visibility and Vendor Compliance

NEW! Reflection Transportation Audit
February 15, 2009

New, entry-level audit service enables retailers to recover lost profits, gain actionable business intelligence, and experience best-in-class vendor compliance with a very low implementation cost.

NEW! Foundation Vendor Compliance Solution
March 25, 2009

A fully-functional vendor compliance program at a low cost with minimal IT resources required to implement and maintain.

BLOGS: Expert insight for your Supply Chain
April 22, 2009

Dave Schneider - Out of Stocks killed Circuit City
Kate Vitasek - Inventory Metrics
Dan Gilmore - SC Digest First Thoughts

New Mandates in Retail Compliance
July 20, 2009

Vendor Compliance Federation Summer Conference
July 20-21, San Francisco, CA
Discounted registration!

Retail Supply Chain Consulting Services

Compliance Networks excels in uncovering the hidden value that lies within your supply chains. We apply a creative mix of technologies and services to facilitate flow in the retail supply chain.

Understanding the full scope of the retail supply chain is critical to maximizing efficiency from both the vendor's and retailer's perspective. A carefully scripted distribution plan combined with a well executed merchandising plan produces a mutually desired result - happy and satisfied customers. As former retailers, we understand the critical importance of an uninterrupted flow of merchandise in successfully executing a merchandising plan. Having worked with hundreds of vendors, we also know the importance of retailers setting and communicating proper expectations to ensure optimal performance.

Vendor Compliance Services

We offer the vendor community Best Practices Consultation and evaluation to:

Identify profit leaks within warehouse, shipping and distribution operations
Assistance with interpreting retailer routing guides
Design and implement strategies to improve the vendor/retailer compliance process and relationship
Design and implement programs to eliminate costly chargebacks

We offer the retail community:

Opportunity assessments to determine the financial impact of vendor compliance optimization programs
Distribution center design expertise including facility layout and material handling design
Opportunity assessments on the financial impact of vendor compliance programs
Supply chain strategy and modeling
Performance management
Freight audits
Traffic and logistics assessments
Consulting for ASN/214 processing
Vendor Scorecards

Download our Vendor Compliance Consulting Services Brochure (PDF)

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FREE Opportunity Assessment
April 21, 2009

We will benchmark your supply chain performance

Against your competition

Against your corporate goals and strategies!

Discover where your supply chain is doing well and where it needs improvement. Identify lost opportunity costs!
Free Download

Benchmarking the Perfect Retail Order
April 21, 2009

The update of the first study of POI to analyze real retail shipment data.
Update - Free Download

New Ways of Working Together
April 23, 2009

Inez Blackburn, President of Market Techniques and Innovations, presents new research into the needs and practices for profitable supply chain collaboration.
Free Download

Pride Passion Profit
September 01, 2009

"A must read for retailers and manufacturers alike who struggle with profitable growth."
Alan W. Altman - Best selling author and international speaker

Coming September 2009 from Inez Blackburn and Matthew Deeter

Big M profits from Revolution
June 10, 2009

Big M, parent corporation for Mandee and Annie Sez has successfully implemented the Revolution release (version 5.0) of the retail Compliance Management Solution.