Retailers and Distributors

Platform provides the technology foundation for advanced demand-driven business models

 

As a retailer, you can use the ONE Retail network to deploy a privately-branded your-company.net community to understand demand, improve DC forecasting, and more intelligently manage supply. You give selected partners visibility into your store inventory SKU data, and SKU/item group POS data. You set the security and permissibility for each participant including DC managers, buyers, transportation managers, VMI analysts, and vendors.

ONE’s your-company.net allows you to propagate demand signals and inventory positions from stores to any network partner, in near real time. And it allows for complete visibility of orders and shipments at all stages in the logistics pipeline.

A Fortune 50 retailer recently used the ONE Retail network to cut lost sales due to stock-outs from over 12% of sales to less than 4% of sales, by improving execution of its promotional logistics. At the same time, they reduced the amount of mark-down inventory left over after the promotion by two-thirds.

Benefits for Retailers

  • Increase same-store sales. Improve service levels to reduce out of stocks. Gain accurate, real-time visibility to product performance by store for micro-merchandizing.
  • Improve promotion management. Align demand, supply, and logistics to ensure promotion effectiveness and high-precision execution.
  • Move to consumer-driven replenishment. Use real-time demand feeds from stores. Balance demand with real-time supply and transportation constraints.
  • Improve pricing and profitability. Avoid mark-downs by using real-time execution information to evaluate product performance and inventory needs.
  • Coordinate logistics and transportation. Synchronize your inbound and outbound transportation and dock scheduling with the overall fulfillment process.
  • Increase inventory turns and reduce safety stock with perpetual inventory management and network-wide item-level visibility.
  • Leverage RFID data to provide new types of event management and applications; such as perishables management, recall and country of origin tracking.
  • Improve business processes with your suppliers. For example, improve collaborative forecasting by sharing forecasts and POS data and creating collaborative processes with vendors.

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Get on the One Network

One Network connects all supply partners on a shared network with many-to-many connectivity. Join us and get immediate access to a global community – currently over a thousand manufacturers, retailers, carriers and equipment service providers already on board. Contact One Network today.

 

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