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BRdata NGA 2023 Booth Training Session Schedule
All sessions are at BRdata booth #1329 except Technology Thought Leadership Session
Monday, February 27, 12 pm – 6 pm
1:00 pm: NGA Independent Insights
Discover how NGA Independent Insights is used to condense movement among hundreds of thousands of SKUs from over 1,300 stores nationwide into a digestible dashboard accessible from a browser or in the aisles. This allows grocers to identify trending SKUs or Categories among peer stores, spot trending SKUs among peer stores that they themselves don’t carry, and even identify new pricing opportunities.
1:30 pm: BRdata Cloud App
Learn how secure, near real-time actionable analytics are accessible from any iPhone or Android device. Sales, item movement, customer counts, top movers, loss prevention, and trends are a few of the available views.
2:00 pm: Vendor Portal
Learn how a Vendor Portal can be used to centrally manage cost and allowance data for DSD vendors and streamline import of new items, costs, and deal changes.
2:30 pm: Cloud Dashboards (Sales Drilldown, Big Kahuna, Dashboard) / Movement Reporting
Discover how BRdata Cloud can quickly show your store, department, category, and item performance across time periods and stores. Pinpoint growth areas and merchandising gaps to help you drive assortment and store efficiencies.
3:00 pm: Computer Generated Ordering and Inventory
See how to implement firm inventory controls around your operational processes to analyze and reduce shrink. With the proper metrics for order scheduling and the ability to forecast future needs, understand how Computer-Generated Ordering can help you streamline your order process to what you need on the shelf.
3:30 pm: Single Pass Ordering
Learn how ordering can be streamlined to automatically route items, as it’s appropriate, between your warehouse, wholesaler, and DSD vendors – all from one ordering session. This cloud-based Android ordering solution can be configured to run standalone by interfacing to existing back-office and host systems.
4:00 pm: Cloud Retailer Pricing
Say goodbye to VPNs and Remote Desktop Connections. Stores can now access and maintain item, price, and cost information from any browser.
4:30 pm: Demand Pricing
With the high-volume of price changes, using a solution to ensure the necessary margins are maintained is imperative, but what other profit opportunities exist in pricing within a store? AI models can be implemented to analyze items within categories and present pricing analysts with several recommendations to increase profits. Understand the steps that go into implementing a demand-based price recommendation solution by learning about obstacles to overcome, letting prices go live, watching the initial results come in, and how profits can be increased by 2% — 5% of managed revenue.
5:00 pm: Cloud Wholesaler Pricing
Online price management tool for wholesalers to provide member and retail stores visibility to new items, retails/TPRs, zone pricing, costs, allowances, and purchase data. Retailers can view daily and weekly maintenance, make changes as needed and receive POS and label files.
Tuesday, February 28, 8:30 am – 2 pm
9:00 am: TPR Management
Learn how to implement TPR rules to hit targeted GM% by category or department when processing deals and allowances. See how store overstocks can be tracked and/or managed centrally.
9:30 am: Demand Pricing
With the high-volume of price changes, using a solution to ensure the necessary margins are maintained is imperative, but what other profit opportunities exist in pricing within a store? AI models can be implemented to analyze items within categories and present pricing analysts with several recommendations to increase profits. Understand the steps that go into implementing a demand-based price recommendation solution by learning about obstacles to overcome, letting prices go live, watching the initial results come in, and how profits can be increased by 2% — 5% of managed revenue.
10:00 am: Customer Reporting / Dashboard
Learn how BRdata Cloud can give you a better understanding of your customer through detailed purchase analytics and dashboards. Easily benchmark and score the effect of your marketing initiatives.
10:30 am: Loss Prevention Reporting
Lean how a grocery retailer’s Loss Control and Compliance team has access to several useful reports for store Loss Prevention. With access to Top Returned Items, Voids and Returns and Transaction Lookup, there is a single source for data. There is no need for a user to leave BRdata Cloud and access the Point-of-Sale Servers for that same information. The Cloud access to these reports can help eliminate some PCI Compliance concerns by limiting the number of users who need access to our Point-of-Sale servers.
11:15 am: Technology Thought Leadership Theater– Increasing sales and profits with NGA Independent Insights, Analytics, and AI
It’s not easy for independent grocers to keep track of grocery movement outside of their stores. Discover how NGA Independent Insights is used to condense movement among hundreds of thousands of SKUs from over 1,300 stores nationwide into a digestible dashboard accessible from a browser or in the aisles. This allows grocers to identify trending SKUs or Categories among peer stores, spot trending SKUs among peer stores that they themselves don’t carry, and even identify new pricing opportunities. A key differentiator for this platform is how it is seamlessly integrated into analytics that are used daily by pricing, operations, and merchandising.
Additionally, with the high-volume of price changes, using a solution to ensure the necessary margins are maintained is imperative, but what other profit opportunities exist in pricing within a store? An extension of this platform offers AI models which analyze items within categories and present pricing analysts with several recommendations to increase profits. Understand the steps that go into implementing a demand-based price recommendation solution by learning about obstacles to overcome, letting prices go live, watching the initial results come in, and how profits can be increased by 2% — 5% of managed revenue.
Takeaways:
- Learn how to compare sales from a chain/store against 1,300+ anonymous Independent Grocers
- Understand the steps to implement an AI demand-based pricing solution and the potential increase in profits.
- Discover how to a store(s) performance trends and profitability using cloud reporting.
- Track performance using weekly metrics.
12:00 pm: Cloud Dashboards (Sales Drilldown, Big Kahuna, Dashboard) / Movement Reporting
Discover how BRdata Cloud can quickly show your store, department, category, and item performance across time periods and stores. Pinpoint growth areas and merchandising gaps to help you drive assortment and store efficiencies.
12:30 pm: Grind Log and Markdowns
Save money by adding grind log tracking to your existing reporting and Android devices. Print markdown labels in the aisles to control and track store price reductions.
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