Retail

How TRF can help me

Better commercial offer
- Controls automatically the good execution of your business strategy
- Corrects durably structural breaks
- Analyses by category in order to identify product ranges' opportunities (products to add, removal of unselling ones)
- Does a benchmark automatically with the competition
- Makes a promotion analysis and creates alerts
- Checks the adequacy of your price positioning with the distribution area
- Does an automatized clustering based on the benchmark of TRF
- Follows -up the good execution of the strategy to its best level in terms of categories
Margin increase
- Ensures the good execution of the pricing policy (automatized alerts on predifined criteria)
- Checks the coherence between types of brands (private label, premium, national brands)
- Does a benchmarking : identification of strong or inadecuate offer by price range
- Analyses and follows-up pilferages and stock markdowns
- Anticipates the promotion of products which are not part of the salesplan
Increase in meter-square profitability
- Calculation and recommendation of profitable actions based on the diagnosis
- Possibility to integrate other costs outside merchandises
- D+5 analysis
Sales boost
- Issues alerts automatically to identify out-of-stocks on fast-selling products
- Does an analysis by category to identify automatically possible product range to make (add new products or remove unselling ones)
- Generates an automatized benchmark with the competition
- Makes an analysis and alerts for promotion
- Checks your price positioning is in adequacy with the distribution area
Better negotiation process
- Categories and suppliers are analysed automatically to identify opportunities and have an overview of the supplier positioning versus competitors
- Negotiation file edited in a PPTx format you can easily personnalised
- Help in establishing negiotiation objectives to achieve
- Follow-up of the execution of the negotiated points (Delivery note supervision, current price management, innovation and promotion process, discount price and rebate scheme control).
- TRF Methodology to support buyers in finding a better process in negotiation such as the preparation et the establishment /formulation of the objectives to achieve
Better control of retail distribution
- The performance of each produt is evaluated; we have a benchmark of all products in every category
- A recommendation list is published automatically - store/article or category/cluster depending on your management
- A clustering based on the benchmark of TRF is generated automatically
- Follow-up of the good execution of the strategy to its best level in terms of category
Management and pilotage
- Managers focus on execution and follow-up while teams concentrate on profitable actions
- Complete diagnosis of products, categories, suppliers in all stores
- Pilotage by financial gains which enables to prioritise profitable activities according to major aims to achieve
- Possibility to follow-up the execution of recommendations
- Clear, simple, action oriented communication between main office and stores
- Analysis of methods inherent to each job to diagnose points to improve
- Capitalization on good practices and knowwledge
Reduction of prep time for negociation
- Negotiation file edited automatically in a personalised PPTx format
Out of stock reduction
- Identifies out of stocks automatically
- Corrects causes sustainably
- Follows -up the execution of decisions
- Measures the results
Overstock reduction
- Identification of overstocks depending on their costs
- Identification of causes to correct them sustainably
- Automatic recommandations of disposal
- Follow-up the execution of decisions

How we make the difference

TRF Retail:

Publishes a recommendation list, not just calculating loads of KPI to make a decision
Follows a step-by-step process and suggests you efficient actions to perform
Evaluates each operation's profitability
Prioritises automatically the best profitable actions
Completes all ERP & B.I. tools: SAP – ORACLE – Microsoft – JDA – Meti – Home Made...