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. By unifying analytics, simulation, and planning capabilities, Board enables grocers to meet changing customer demands while maximizing efficiency across the supply chain thanks to fast, informed decision-making.
From sales planning to category management, rolling forecasts to store and label P&L projections, and price and promotion optimization to workforce management, Board’s unified solution for analysis, simulation, and planning helps grocers to manage and control their entire decision-making process.
Achieve full transparency across the supply chain with a centralized hub for data analysis.
Unifying financial and operational retail data, Board creates a single point of truth and provides complete visibility of performance through interactive dashboards and reports
Perform detailed analysis on data at every level of the organization, from aggregated product categories to individual SKUs
A user-friendly interface enables users to analyze data in their own way to quickly find the answers they need
Planning and analysis capabilities in a single solution enables you to use historical data for future planning activities
Link high-level strategies to financial and operational goals for individual stores.
Unify business-wide data, from supplier to shelf, to create a single point of truth for analysis, planning, and reporting
Create and review business initiatives such as the launch of new brands or product lines
Model scenarios to assess their impact on the business’ bottom line before choosing the option which is likely to deliver the best outcome
Set and monitor budgets for the time period of your choice, in line with projected performance
Produce well-informed financial plans which take into account the impact of every area of the business.
Distribute targets and financial goals at brand/region/channel level to produce a plan which works for all departments
The unification of data from across the business creates full visibility of the relationship between activities and related costs
Automate time-consuming processes by automatically collating and consolidating financial data for analysis and reporting purposes
Effectively manage a mix of multiple product categories to capitalize on high performers and change the strategy for less successful ranges.
Define product categories as mini Business Units, assigning them goals to help drive overall performance (revenue/traffic/margin generator, etc.)
Create category scorecards to easily monitor and analyze strategic, operational, and financial success
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
Find the optimal pricing and promotional strategies to help the achievement of strategic and financial goals.
Automatically analyze competitors’ prices and define “Price Indexes” for every category
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.)
Analyze historical promotions and define future budgets and targets for promotions at category or supplier level
Effectively define promotional periods for each product in a collaborative approach with suppliers
Analyze the historical impact of past promotions and automatically uplift the statistical forecast baseline
Effectively manage shelf availability and service level for non-food categories.
Create effective reports on shelf availability and develop service level indexes, enabling the clustering of different product groups to calibrate replenishment policies
Assess future demand levels based on statistical forecasting capabilities
Determining replenishment quantities and slots based on the target level of shelf availability and supply chain lead times
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.
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