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Reduce out-of-stocks and overstocks to increase your margins

Having the right merchandise in the right stores at the right time is critical to attracting and keeping your most valuable customers. Teradata Seasonal Plan Analysis uses historical sales, inventory and promotional data to help retailers better plan each season's merchandise needs. Identifying the right items for deletion is a critical step in optimizing assortment management—Teradata Item Deletion Analysis helps you develop a foundation for an effective item deletion process.

Teradata Sales and Inventory Analysis makes sales trending, contribution ranking and year-to-year comparisons within category and markdown management readily available. You make smarter, more informed decisions. You get improved product assortments, greater customer satisfaction and increased profits.

Why is this a critical business issue?

Retail is more competitive than ever before. In addition to more sales channels, customers are bombarded with more and more choices. Savvy retailers know their customers, their wants and needs. To learn how some of the industry's thought leaders view retail, read the articles below.
* Business Objects and Teradata to Deliver End-to-End Business Intelligence for Retailers
* "Organizational IQ: How Smart Companies Use Technology For World-Class Performance" -  Haim Mendelson, Stanford Business School
* Advanced Analytics: What Every Enterprise Should Know -  Mike Rote, Teradata
* Gartner: Integrated Supply Chain Planning and Execution: Connecting the Retail Store to the Factory Door

What are others doing?

The world's leading retailers are turning huge amounts of historical and market basket data into information that's used to make critical business decisions. Read how they're doing it.
* Applebee's International
* H-E-B Moves to Active Data Warehousing With Help From Teradata

What are the experts recommending?

You have the information you need to be competitive. Use it. You'll learn who your most valuable customers are, what they purchase and when.

What should you do?

Teradata delivers industry-leading retail solutions that help you improve operations, generate profitability, and drive increased customer satisfaction. Read the following information to gain greater insight on how to leverage the power of Teradata and to plan your next steps.
* Grupo Gigante: Taking out the guesswork -  by Len Lewis
* Special Section: Retail -  by Len Lewis
* Matsuzakaya: Building VIP relationships -  by Yoshihiko Izumoto
* Teradata Q&A: From Bytes to Bites at Applebee's -  by Karen D. Schwartz


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