Alloy

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

When orders exceed inventory available in your warehouses, you’re faced with tricky allocation decisions to maximize sales and keep customers happy. This simulated metric projects what demand, and thus sales, would be if you were in-stock during a given period. Prioritize orders that will mitigate the most lost sales.

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MARCH 18, 2021

McLane Company is an important customer for many food and beverage brands, who use its supply chain services to get their products to grocery, drug and convenience stores. At Alloy, we’ve worked with several suppliers who rely on McLane to distribute its everyday products to key retailers. Division inventories and movements.

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Alloy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Part 1 of this series highlighted four of the most important retailer data points that suppliers need to maintain an efficient supply chain and maximize sales opportunities: Unit Sales (Net), Dollar Sales (Net), Price, and Retailer COGS. It’s calculated by dividing Retailer COGS by the average inventory on hand during the period.

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Alloy

APRIL 10, 2023

In addition, we received responses from a variety of titles – CXOs to managers and individual contributors – and functional areas, with the largest groups in Sales, Sales Ops and Supply Chain. Alloy’s daily, store/SKU-level sales and inventory data, in an easy-to-use format, greatly expanded the possibilities for insights.

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Alloy

JUNE 9, 2022

Brands don’t need to hold the inventory, may not need to arrange transportation and don’t need to forecast for that subset of products. Since intermediaries are eliminated, so are many costs associated with complex supply chains. To a brand, the direct import SKUs often present similarly to phantom inventory.

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Alloy

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Michael Hutzli is an engineering team lead in Alloy’s Vancouver office. Before joining Alloy a bit over three years ago, he worked as a software engineer at Addepar in Mountain View and at AdNovum in Zurich, Switzerland. Why did you join Alloy? There were a few different factors that came together in my decision to join Alloy.

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Alloy

JULY 27, 2023

At Alloy, we have dozens of customers across every part of the consumer goods industry and of every company size selling into Walmart. In Retail Link you can easily query over 100 metrics and build reports by SKU, by day, by location, and so on. Walmart’s Retail Link portal is central to any brand with product on Walmart shelves.

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Alloy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

We’ve talked a lot about the importance of using data from your retailers, including point-of-sale , inventory, and forecasts , to grow market share and optimize inventory levels. The sales and inventory data is typically used to analyze downstream supply chain dynamics such as sales patterns, stock movement, and returns.

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Alloy

APRIL 29, 2021

Our research with supply chain professionals at consumer goods companies found that 55% consider On Time and In Full (OTIF) orders, or so called “perfect orders,” one of their top three KPIs. That’s the highest percentage out of all metrics we asked about, including On Shelf Availability (37%) and forecast accuracy (34%).

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Alloy

AUGUST 20, 2019

monitoring what happens to product after it leaves your warehouse is integral to maintaining an efficient supply chain and maximizing sales opportunities. But out of that weekly or daily data deluge, what are the crucial metrics? Subscribe to the Alloy blog to get automatically notified when it’s available!

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Alloy

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

You can rally colleagues across sales, marketing, supply chain planning and finance around them, and more easily break down silos that normally get in the way. . Take advantage of all relevant data to help get inventory pre-loaded in the right amounts at the right places before events that drive most of your sales. .

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Alloy

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Relying on Excel for retail and supply chain analytics, even with Excel wizards, limits your growth when how quickly you can respond to changes determines winners and losers. Getting it just right, though, can require playing with the chart type, what data is included, what metrics are displayed and even the colors.

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Alloy

AUGUST 6, 2019

Read on for the top metrics you should watch to evaluate whether you sunk or soared this Prime Day, and prepare your team for the next major shopping holiday. An important related metric is the conversion rate from page views to sales. The event puts shopping top of mind and creates a broad halo that you can take advantage of.

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Alloy

JUNE 25, 2019

At the recent Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference , one of the standout sessions was “The Penalty Conundrum?—?Suppliers It featured Monique Picou, Senior VP of Flow and Supply Chain at Walmart, who shared the motivation behind the retailer’s recent increase in On Time In Full targets for suppliers.

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Alloy

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Channel Performance in Walmart Luminate is intended to act as your single-source of truth for sales, inventory and forecast data. And the range of new metrics — such as category level insights in Shopper Behavior — give you considerable visibility into your brand’s performance against competitors.

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Alloy

JANUARY 2, 2019

Alloy has observed companies at both ends of the spectrum trying to emulate aspects of each other. Lesson Two: Focus on the End-Consumer When you’re used to selling in bulk orders to retailers, it’s easy to become fixated on wholesale metrics, like sell-in and OTIF. focus on easy-to-use tools that help employees make the transition; 2.

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Alloy

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Consumer goods companies rely on forecasts to support inventory planning and distribution across their sales channels. Low inventory situations might occur only in certain regions, during certain times of the year, or even across specific product categories.

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Alloy

MARCH 10, 2021

If you’re a supply chain geek, you probably already follow Supply Chain Now , the go-to podcast for all things supply chain. (In In fact, you may have caught Alloy on a previous episode.). Hosts (and supply chain experts in their own right) Greg White and Scott W.

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Alloy

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Get More Out of Your Kroger 84.51° and Market6 Data How Automation and Advanced Metrics You Won’t Get in 84.51° can help you grow your sales at Kroger and avoid inventory headaches. As such, optimally managing your sales and inventory at Kroger is essential to grow your brand and solidify its foothold with the end consumer.

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