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Data Profits Empowers a Demand-driven Strategy for Retailers Gearing up for Holiday Shopping

Empowering Retailers with a Demand-driven Strategy for Holiday Shopping

ATLANTA, October 13, 2015 – For retailers, planning for the 2015 holiday shopping season – the season that can make or break the sales year—has been in process for months. In the case of shelf-stable stock, large purchase orders are already sitting on retail shelves. Leveraging technology to deliver actionable insights and forecasts, Data Profits provides retailers with the tools to ensure a profitable, nearly worry-free holiday season. Retailers can now take advantage of their free download “Data Profits 5 Step Checklist for Retailers to Gear Up for Holiday Shopping Season.
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Does 98% Demand Forecast Accuracy Get Your Attention?

In today’s world of technology savvy consumers and big data, retailers must find an efficient way to merge business intelligence, forecasting and customer insight into usable information that creates results.  We recently worked with a top 100 consumer electronics retailer on an installation of our  iKIS™ solution which resulted in improved forecast accuracy from 16.9 percent to 98.2 percent with return on investment realized in the first 60 days.

Unlike legacy systems in the market that have simply upgraded to a web interface, our software is built to work online, keep data secure, analyze the huge amounts of customer data at high speeds and translate the analysis into consumer insight – demand forecast.

Why Does Forecast Accuracy Matter?

Several studies (Gartner, Dr Mentzer, others) consistently show that forecast accuracy delivers a 15% shareholder value increase. The problem is many legacy software apps just do not deliver good forecast accuracy. Using a recent example lets look at the problem and the opportunity as many companies have the same issues and opportunity.
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