This document discusses micro merchandising and how it can increase profitability for retailers. Micro merchandising focuses on getting the right product in the right place at the right time and in the right quantity. It involves customer and store profiling, analyzing product and store attributes, and clustering. Implementing micro merchandising can increase sales, margins and inventory turns while reducing costs through better inventory management and personnel productivity. The presentation outlines the benefits of micro merchandising and best practices for retailers.

1. Think Globally. Act Locally.
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2. Today’s Presenter
Jerry Inman
Chief Marketing Officer
7thonline

3. What You Will Learn Today
I. What is Micro Merchandising
II. How Micro Merchandising Increases
Profitability for Retailers
III. Best Practices for Implementing Micro
Merchandising

4. Industry Market Drivers
Increase Revenue
• Increase Sales
• Improve Margins
Improve Inventory Management
• Increase Channel Visibility
• Earlier Demand Visibility
• Reduce Markdowns
• Reduce Out-of-Stocks
• Improve Inventory Turns
Reduce Operational Costs
• Decrease Error Rates
• Improve Personnel Productivity
• Minimize Cost of IT
Radically Reduce Excel Spreadsheets

5. The Holy Grail for Retail
The Right Product.
In the Right Place.
At the Right Time.
In the Right Quantity.

6. Micro Merchandising – Areas of Focus
I. Customer and Store Profiling
II. Product and Store Attributes
III. Clustering

7. Consumer Centric Retailing
Cross Channel Merchandise & Assortment Management

8. Industry Acknowledges Market Leadership…

9. Enterprise Class Platform and Cloud Infrastructure
• Standards Based • Extensible
• J2EE, Oracle, MS SQL Server, • Web services
browser based • Integration services
• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Industrial strength security • Cloud
• Elastic scalability and resource
• Scalable allocation
• Horizontal clustering • Dynamic provisioning
• Service multi-threading • Fine-grained control of computing
• Database optimizations resources
• Network compression • Enterprise class interoperability and
access
• Global • Security, privacy, integrity and SLA’s
• Multi - language • Extreme- transaction-processing
• Multi - currency (XTP) grade performance
• Multi - division enabled • Multitenant configuration,
customization and version control
• Global deployment

10. The 7thonline Difference
Key Differentiators
• Retail Industry DNA
• Only Solution Provider with Cross Channel Strategy
• Advanced Proprietary Algorithms
• Consumer Demand Centric Solution
• User-Driven Embedded Business Intelligence & Analytics (No IT Required for Reporting)
• Familiar “Excel-like” GUI
• Scalable, Enterprise Class & Cloud Infrastructure
• Fastest Time to Value – Rapid Implementation Approach
• Proven ROI
• Proven Track Record with Leading Retailers, eCommerce and Vendors in Apparel,
Footwear & Accessories

11. Thank you
Questions?
Please contact me at jinman@7thonline.com
or call 212.997.1717 ext 327