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Hosting Services for Consumer Products, Retail & Distribution

Companies are continuously looking for innovative ways to navigate the increasingly complex global supply and distribution networks where changing demographic patterns, cost and price volatility are impacting many aspects of the retail and consumer products industry. Companies are requiring tight collaboration among product producers, marketers, suppliers and retailers to gain real time visibility into business conditions.  In this environment, those companies with insightful business intelligence and agile operations continuously maintain high levels of business performance and competitive advantage.

IntelliData Solutions helps consumer products, retail and distribution companies gain valuable insights from associative information, analysis and workflow to improve their core performance. We implement solutions in the following segments.

Retail/Wholesale

  • Enable increased productivity by customer, product, channel, location, and business partner by analyzing and reacting to performance trends and seasonality
  • Align the optimal mix of products and services by channel and location to attract and retain the most profitable customers
  • Manage optimal levels of inventory, reduce carrying & transportation costs and improve collaboration with customers, marketing and suppliers
  • Better manage pricing and profitability to improve financial performance
  • Align order, production, and delivery schedules to consumer demand to effectively reduce operation costs and increase supply chain effectiveness
  • Detect and prevent inventory shrinkage and mismanagement
  • Improve customer service with access to timely, accurate and complete information
  • Develop custom applications to fulfill specific workflow and or functionality requirements
  • Integrate custom or existing applications to other operational systems to improve workflow and user collaboration

 Transportation and Logistics

  • Improve profitability with in-depth analysis of service and network portfolios across customers and suppliers along the logistics chain
  • Identify opportunities, negotiate terms and tier contracts by comparing results of track supplier performance against service level agreements
  • Analyze loads, routes, carriers, tendering, bookings, customs filings, freight audit and payment on a by-order basis to reduce variable costs
  • Enable streamlined business discovery across all enterprise functions to improve cash flow and gain operational efficiencies
  • Drill-down detail to documentation to streamline safety, traceability and compliance
  • Develop custom applications to fulfill specific workflow and or functionality requirements
  • Integrate custom or existing applications to other operational systems to improve workflow and user collaboration