Retail

Increase efficiency from supplier to shelf

With grocery data analytics software that helps you take a more intelligent planning approach

Grocery Image 1 — An example homescreen of a grocery reporting application

The battle for consumers’ grocery spend is more intense than ever, with new store concepts, pricing strategies, delivery formats, and market volatility putting retailers under pressure to deliver increased value with decreased costs. As an Intelligent Planning Platform, Board empowers grocers to turn consumer spending patterns into profitable plans, aligning product strategy to customers’ needs.

Retail Analytics

Strategic Grocery Planning

Grocery Financial Planning

Category Management

Price & Promotion Planning

Replenishment

Quickly understand performance with powerful Retail Analytics

Achieve full transparency across the supply chain with a centralized hub for data analysis.

Gain full visibility across the business
Unifying financial and operational retail data, Board creates a single point of truth and provides complete visibility of performance through interactive dashboards and reports
Analyze data at all levels of detail
Perform detailed analysis on data at every level of the organization, from aggregated product categories to individual SKUs
Empower users with self-service analysis
A user-friendly interface enables users to analyze data in their own way to quickly find the answers they need
Combine Business Intelligence with Planning
Planning and analysis capabilities in a single solution enables you to use historical data for future planning activities

Grocery Image 2 — This dashboard shows a typical set of KPIs in use in retail at store level

Transform your Strategic Grocery Planning

Link high-level strategies to financial and operational goals for individual stores.

Grocery Image 3 — The screen shows the "value tree" and the tables allowing retailers to evaluate strategic initiatives.

Gain complete performance transparency
Unify business-wide data, from supplier to shelf, to create a single point of truth for analysis, planning, and reporting
Easily create strategic initiatives
Create and review business initiatives such as the launch of new brands or product lines
Test the impact of decisions before you take them
Model scenarios to assess their impact on the business’ bottom line before choosing the option which is likely to deliver the best outcome
Set goals for the short, medium and longer term
Set and monitor budgets for the time period of your choice, in line with projected performance

Increase the efficiency of your Grocery Financial Planning

Produce well-informed financial plans which take into account the impact of every area of the business.

Cascade strategic targets down into financial objectives
Distribute targets and financial goals at brand/region/channel level to produce a plan which works for all departments
See the true cost of strategic and operational activities
The unification of data from across the business creates full visibility of the relationship between activities and related costs
Remove manual processes
Automate time-consuming processes by automatically collating and consolidating financial data for analysis and reporting purposes

Grocery Image 4 — The screen is an example of profitability analysis for several product categories

Find the best Category Management approach

Effectively manage a mix of multiple product categories to capitalize on high performers and change the strategy for less successful ranges.

Grocery Image 5 — This sample dashboard shows some KPIs and indexes for suppliers in the grocery sector

Define categories and assign them targets with ease
Define product categories as mini Business Units, assigning them goals to help drive overall performance (revenue/traffic/margin generator, etc.)
Quickly assess each category’s performance
Create category scorecards to easily monitor and analyze strategic, operational, and financial success
Compare multiple strategies to determine the best mix of products
Perform simulations and comparisons between different versions of the strategy plans, while enabling the internal sharing of information and collaboration with the top suppliers of each category

Maximize the effectiveness of Price & Promotion Planning

Find the optimal pricing and promotional strategies to help the achievement of strategic and financial goals.

Quickly understand your competitors’ pricing strategies
Automatically analyze competitors’ prices and define “Price Indexes” for every category
Easily define pricing by product and store type
Set the rules of pricing consistency for different packing sizes and formats of goods, considering the goals of every store format (e.g. Cash&Carry, superstores, convenience stores, etc.)
Set achievable sales promotion targets
Analyze historical promotions and define future budgets and targets for promotions at category or supplier level
Increase the effectiveness of promotion planning
Effectively define promotional periods for each product in a collaborative approach with suppliers
Forecast the success of future promotions
Analyze the historical impact of past promotions and automatically uplift the statistical forecast baseline

Grocery Image 6 — This is an example homepage for a Price & Promotion management process application

Gain full control of Replenishment

Effectively manage shelf availability and service level for non-food categories.

Grocery Image 7 — This dashboard shows the on-shelf availability of some non-food goods

Increase the accuracy of stock analysis & shelf availability reporting
Create effective reports on shelf availability and develop service level indexes, enabling the clustering of different product groups to calibrate replenishment policies
Effectively forecast product demand
Assess future demand levels based on statistical forecasting capabilities
Easily manage replenishment activities
Determining replenishment quantities and slots based on the target level of shelf availability and supply chain lead times

Unification of management control, budgeting, and sales analysis in a single, user-friendly environment

Board has enabled us to integrate all the information from different sources within a single environment, providing immediate access to multidimensional analyses and simplifying our reporting procedures.