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!

Distribution Management Solution (rDMS)

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To be successful in today's competitive market, retailers must provide an uninterrupted flow of merchandise to the sales floor. Merchandise stranded in distribution centers, on trucks and/or on vendor docks represent lost sales opportunities. With competition unrelenting----and customers unforgiving---- retailers must optimize every aspect of the distribution flow.

rDMS represents a new perspective on Retail Supply Chain Management. Architected specifically for the retail flow distribution model. rDMS fully supports the activities of central distribution centers, 3rd party logistics providers, and store receiving operations in both direct direct-store-delivery and central distribution models, as well as, supports pre- and post-distributed purchasing models. The design emphasis on retail-centric supply chains yields superior support for vendor performance verification, floor-ready service support, and same-platform integrated store receiving functionality. In short, rDMS provides a retail-centric, single source view of the retail logistics organization.

rDMS supports the following key retail distribution processes:

Receiving
Replenishments
ASN Receiving
Pick/Pack/Ship
Cross-Docking
Container Tracking
Staging
Virtual Warehousing
Wave/Batch/Zone picking
Pre/Post Distribution
Packing Movements
SCN Labeling
Verification

Lot Control
Transfers
Conveyor sortation system interfaces
FIFO/LIFO
Productivity Reporting
Cycle Counting
Space Allocation Support
Vendor Performance Verification
Floor Ready Service Support
Integrated Store receiving

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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.