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7thOnline,
Inc. - Grail Sponsor
www.7thonline.com
Founded in 1999, 7thOnline is
the premiere provider of web-centric merchandise
and assortment planning solutions targeted specifically
to the global apparel, footwear, and accessories
community. 7thOnline's offerings encompass
visual and quantitative top-down and bottom-up
assortment planning tools, powerful analytical
and optimization engines, and automatic order
transmission capabilities in multiple formats.
Customer results include higher sell-thru and
lower markdowns through better assortments at
the door level, better inventory matching due
to earlier supply/demand visibility, shorter cycle
times due to the streamlined process, and reduced
operational costs resulting from significantly
reduced administrative tasks and error rates.
7thOnline's user community currently includes
Belk, Dillard's, Federated Department Stores,
Jones Apparel Group, Kellwood, Kohl's, Liz Claiborne,
Saks Inc., and many others. |
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Claraview - Partner
www.claraview.com
Claraview is a strategy and technology consultancy
that helps leading organizations use business
intelligence to achieve competitive advantage
and operational excellence. Claraview can help
you improve assortment planning through better
analysis of historical information and forecasting
of customer behavior.
Our clients realize measurable results: faster
time to decision, improved information quality,
and greater strategic insight.
Claraview's best-practice methodology, The Claraview
WaySM, has delivered
scalable business intelligence systems on time
and on budget to many well-known retail organizations
including Hannaford Brothers, Lowe's Companies,
Inc., Kraft, and Office Depot. |
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JDA - Partner
www.jda.com
With its acquisition of Manugistics on July 5,
2006, JDA® Software Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:JDAS)
is the global leader in helping more than 5,500
retail, manufacturing and wholesale-distribution
customers in 60 countries realize real demand
chain results. By capitalizing on its industry
position and financial strength, JDA commits significant
resources to advancing the JDA Portfolio®
suite of supply and demand chain solutions. JDA
Portfolio software enables high-performance business
process optimization and execution from the manufacturer’s
plant, through distribution to an end customer
or a retailer’s shelf. With offices in major
cities around the world, JDA employs the industry’s
most experienced supply and demand chain experts
to develop, deliver and support its solutions.
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Designed to deliver high-scalability,
flexibility and performance, Enterprise
Planning by Arthur® enables the next
generation in precision planning. By simplifying
and optimizing the overall planning and
decision making processes across your business,
Enterprise Planning will significantly increase
productivity and efficiency for merchants.
Unlike planning solutions that focus on
only one aspect of planning, Enterprise
Planning features integrated capabilities
so you can more profitably plan, deploy
and manage your resources. From setting
strategic financial goals to executing assortment
and key item plans, you’ll improve
your bottom line by creating plans that
reflect your financial goals and target
market.
Enterprise Planning leverages all the strengths
of Advanced Merchandise Planning by Arthur®,
the leading planning solution trusted by
thousands of users worldwide. Enterprise
Planning’s unique Planning-by-Attribute
capabilities enable you to plan and analyze
using dynamic Attribute hierarchies. The
solution will quickly validate detailed
plans against qualitative factors that influence
customer product preferences and demand.
Your merchants will plan more effectively
and at a very meticulous level against your
established objectives. |
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AIS - Partner
www.AISLLC.com
Applied Intelligence Solutions, LLC (AIS) is
part of a family of technology companies that
spans almost three decades. AIS leverages extensive
expertise in demand forecasting, scalable algorithm
development, pattern recognition, neural network
and other artificial intelligence capabilities
to build next-generation optimization solutions
that improve performance across a variety of retail
applications and formats. AIS solutions go beyond
existing software tools, enabling our customers
to significantly boost revenue, minimize costly
markdowns and improve company profitability. AIS
is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, with Research
and Development facilities in Moscow, Russia. |
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i2 - Partner
www.i2.com
i2 helps business leaders make better supply
chain decisions. i2's flexible new-generation
solutions are designed to synchronize demand and
supply across ever-changing global business networks.
i2's innovative supply chain management tools
and services are pervasive in a wide cross-section
of industries; 20 of the AMR Research Top 25 Global
Supply Chains belong to i2 customers. |
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Teradata - Partner
www.teradata.com
Teradata, a division of NCR, is the global leader
in enterprise data warehousing and enterprise
analytic technologies and services. Companies
use Teradata® solutions to gain a single,
integrated view of their businesses so they can
make better, faster decisions that drive growth
and profitability. Companies leverage this integrated
view to increase revenues, decrease costs, and
improve relationships. Teradata Warehouse gives
you a single view of your business, combining
Teradata's high-performance parallel database
technology, data management tools, robust data
mining capabilities, and world-class scalable
hardware. Teradata Analytical Applications help
companies better manage operational, financial,
and business performance. Applications support
the Communications, Retail, Finance, Insurance,
Manufacturing, Transportation, and Travel industries.
Teradata customers are industry leaders and include
sixty percent of the top global companies. With
our proven expertise in enterprise data warehousing
and best-in-class technology, Teradata can help
you see your business like never before. To learn
more, go to Teradata.com. |
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Manhattan Associates
- Partner
www.manh.com
Manhattan Associates is a leading retail planning
and demand chain solutions provider. The company's
customer-centric forecasting, assortment, merchandise,
promotion and catalog planning solutions combined
with execution, analytics and business process
capabilities enable its more than 1200 customers
worldwide to make better assortment and buying
decisions, enhance profitability and optimize
channel performance. Developed for companies of
all sizes and selling channels, Manhattan Associates'
Advanced Planning solutions support the full alignment
of assortment strategy to financial reconciliation
and end-to-end planning. Supporting the unique
needs of each channel while providing visibility
across channels, we enable our customers to meet
their fundamental goals—to be profitable
and to please their customers. For more information,
please visit www.manh.com. |
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Oracle - Partner
www.oracle.com
Oracle partners with the world's leading retail
companies to transform the economics of their
business. From supply chain, operations, merchandising,
store systems, optimization and information technology
solutions, Oracle Retail is the single source
for innovative and comprehensive industry solutions
-- enabling organizations to serve their customers
better by applying insight into daily business
decisions for more profitable results. |
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Maple Lake Limited
- Sponsor
www.maplelake.com
Maple Lake is a very different kind of business.
The way we work, think and operate is designed
to provide our customers with
better results. Our goal is to give retailers
a better way to plan their
route to success through the use of innovative
solutions.
Our focus is 100% on merchandise and assortment
planning solutions - it's
all we do. And we're not talking about chain level
assortments here, we're
talking detailed store assortments with styles,
colours, sizes and a myriad
of attributes that help you balance the top-down,
the bottom-up, the store
side of things, the visual perspective, as well
as the timing of floorsets.
You can see how it needs a lot of attention and
focus!
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We have a diverse client portfolio, including;
Aeropostale, Cole Haan, Lacoste, Barneys New
York, Club Monaco, Mountain Equipment Coop,
Hard Rock Café, Stylo plc and Roots.
Anyway, the business has grown steadily and
organically over the last 6 years. We have
never been ones to make a big song and dance
about our success; in fact most of our new
customers have come about by recommendations
from existing customers. This is, of course,
the ultimate compliment.
Our team all have worked in senior positions
in retail businesses across the world, and
can bring a wealth of experience to your project.
Having lived in retail, we know that these
were the types of people we always liked to
work with; people with retail experience,
people you can talk to in your own language,
and more importantly people who can help find
a way to a better solution. These kinds of
people are few and far between. That's just
one of the reasons why we're a bit different.
So now you know; Maple Lake is a very different
kind of business. Come and talk to us and
find out for yourselves. |
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Torex - Sponsor
www.torexretail.com/
Torex Retail boasts an unparalleled track record
of more than twenty years, servicing some of the
biggest names in retailing in the United Kingdom,
mainland Europe and the United States of America.
We have a presence in all major markets around
the world with over 6,000 customer relationships
and an installed base in more than 30 countries.
Torex Retail's Compass suite provides retail
planning, design and decision support solutions.
Developed with particular attention to apparel
and soft-lines, Compass presents a fully-integrated
vision of assortment planning with merchandise/financial
planning and allocation. |
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IT Resources -
Sponsor
www.IT-RES.com
IT Resources Inc. is a leading provider of collaborative
Decision Support, Assortment Planning, and Purchasing
applications for the retail industry. With a reputation
for innovative, quality products and services,
IT Resources helps their customers achieve a significant
and quantifiable return on investment through
increased sales and margin productivity as a result
of optimized product assortments developed at
the most detailed levels, by store location.
The company’s flagship product, Buyer’s
WorkMate®, addresses the critical elements
of the business process of merchandising including:
Trend Analysis, Sales Forecasting, Store Planning,
Assortment Planning, and Purchase Order Execution.
The tangible business value and benefits that
will accrue as a by-product of the implementation
of Buyer’s WorkMate include a well defined
and controllable business process to support the
entire planning and purchasing practice and measurable
improvements in the assortment mix at each and
every store location, which will optimize inventory
investment and reduce markdowns and transfers.
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Acxiom - Sponsor
www.acxiom.com
At Acxiom we build stronger and more enduring
relationships between our clients and their customers.
We accomplish this through the creation and delivery
of data management and analytic solutions that
enhance profitability, reduce risk and lower costs.
Celebrated for technological innovation and reliability,
Acxiom’s 6600 associates serve blue chip
clients throughout the United States, Europe,
Asia, Australia and Latin America. Headquartered
in Little Rock, Arkansas, Acxiom manages over
20 billion customer and prospect records, with
over 1.5 billion of them processed and integrated
every day using our proprietary Customer Data
Integration (CDI) technology.
Acxiom Retail Solutions
Acxiom’s robust consumer knowledgebase and
state-of-the-art computing power offer retailers
the advantage of smart and timely translation
of consumer data into fact-based business strategies
and actions. Acxiom’s retail solutions contribute
to key decisions that include:
- Marketing & Media – Making the
most effective use of marketing budgets by applying
target-specific strategies and tactics that
reach your most profitable consumer segments
- Merchandising – Applying localized
customer insight to improve the quality of assortment,
space, pricing, promotion and brand decisions.
- Store Site & Experience – Optimizing
site and format selection by drawing on over
20 billion customer records to match real estate
with your “best customers.”
- Risk Management – Reducing fraud and
shrink.
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Quantum Retail
Technology, Inc. - Sponsor
www.quantumretail.com
Quantum Retail was founded by a team of Retail
scientists, technologists and process experts
because we believe there is a better way to solve
the problems of Inventory Efficiency, Balance
and Profitability.
Our mission is to help our clients continually
achieve their merchandise and financial goals
for every product in every location. Using a fresh
perspective, we designed an innovative and practical
tool called Q as a snap-on for existing planning,
allocation and replenishment systems.
Q for Advanced Inventory Optimization
- Continuously optimizes inventory for every
product at every location in real time
- Links the art of the merchandising and assortment
planning process to the science of inventory
execution
- Provides actionable knowledge and visibility
to current and potential item performance
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NSB - Sponsor
www.nsbgroup.com
Advanced solutions for a changing retail world
NSB Group is a total solutions provider for retailers
of apparel, footwear, and specialty merchandise.
We create low-risk, high-reward business environments
in which you can achieve your vision of retail
success. Drawing on more than 30 years of best
practices, we map clear paths from where you are
to where you’d like to be, and we equip
you to get there.
NSB’s acclaimed Connected Retailer®
solutions streamline and enhance all key retail
functions - from sourcing merchandise globally
to understanding and interacting with customers
in all channels. Our comprehensive suite includes
Sourcing and Product Development, Planning, Merchandising,
Store, Sales Analytics, and CRM. These solutions
can be implemented together across your enterprise
or as separate, best-of-breed components to enhance
your existing technology assets.
In addition to one-stop shopping for feature-rich
products, we offer hardware and integrated client
services for consulting, development, implementation,
and 24/7 support. We get your solutions up and
running efficiently and ensure they continue to
deliver the results you expect. We also maintain
a close, ongoing relationship with your team to
address your changing needs. To learn more, go
to www.nsbgroup.com |
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