Escape from Excel - Retail Can't Survive and Thrive on SpreadsheetsJerry Inman
Surprisingly, more than 70% of retail companies use Excel as their principal tool for planning, demand forecasting and optimization. Many of these companies are in “Spreadsheet Hell”, a continuing state of inefficiency and disruption related to using Excel for cross channel merchandise and assortment management. Dozens, and even sometimes, hundreds of spreadsheets are used throughout an organization and its extended enterprise with incorrect or inconsistent formulas, inaccurate numbers, no central repository of information, and no version control. This leads to major inefficiencies, frustration, and decisions made based on incomplete information. And even with this enormous amount of data everywhere – information on sales, inventory and profits – it is generally not available in an aggregated view to intelligently take action.
Oakley and eCommerce - Critical Success Factors for Multi Channel PlanningJerry Inman
In the new world of integrated, multi-channel retailing, consumers should be able to find the products they want quickly and efficiently through the channel of their choice. A higher level of customer service is more critical than ever to survive and thrive, but this adds new complexities to integrating an operational patchwork of information systems, organizations, people and discreet business processes.
Escape from Excel - Retail Can't Survive and Thrive on SpreadsheetsJerry Inman
Surprisingly, more than 70% of retail companies use Excel as their principal tool for planning, demand forecasting and optimization. Many of these companies are in “Spreadsheet Hell”, a continuing state of inefficiency and disruption related to using Excel for cross channel merchandise and assortment management. Dozens, and even sometimes, hundreds of spreadsheets are used throughout an organization and its extended enterprise with incorrect or inconsistent formulas, inaccurate numbers, no central repository of information, and no version control. This leads to major inefficiencies, frustration, and decisions made based on incomplete information. And even with this enormous amount of data everywhere – information on sales, inventory and profits – it is generally not available in an aggregated view to intelligently take action.
Oakley and eCommerce - Critical Success Factors for Multi Channel PlanningJerry Inman
In the new world of integrated, multi-channel retailing, consumers should be able to find the products they want quickly and efficiently through the channel of their choice. A higher level of customer service is more critical than ever to survive and thrive, but this adds new complexities to integrating an operational patchwork of information systems, organizations, people and discreet business processes.
Objectives: reflecting upon which incentives social marketing and health education are based on, and their differences
and interconnections becomes essential to promote healthy lifestyles and ensure a free and sustainable future.
Methods: in order to promote health, it is necessary to use all the incentives that contribute to achieving this end.Health education, social marketing and laws (expression of the policy) are to be considered the functional medium
of health promotion to be used generally or individually, according to the targets/contexts.
Results: the methods used to promote health are work in progress, the Community Based Prevention Marketing is
such an expression.
Conclusions: considering health as a resource for everyday life means externalizing it from what is seen as the sole
responsibility of the health system. Health should become the purpose of actions which, through cross-sector
synergies, concern the different components of civil society, particularly political agendas.
Objectives: reflecting upon which incentives social marketing and health education are based on, and their differences
and interconnections becomes essential to promote healthy lifestyles and ensure a free and sustainable future.
Methods: in order to promote health, it is necessary to use all the incentives that contribute to achieving this end.Health education, social marketing and laws (expression of the policy) are to be considered the functional medium
of health promotion to be used generally or individually, according to the targets/contexts.
Results: the methods used to promote health are work in progress, the Community Based Prevention Marketing is
such an expression.
Conclusions: considering health as a resource for everyday life means externalizing it from what is seen as the sole
responsibility of the health system. Health should become the purpose of actions which, through cross-sector
synergies, concern the different components of civil society, particularly political agendas.
