1. Super Shop sales Monitoring
The Structure:
The process of will include planning, directing, and controlling Merchandisers including recruiting,
selecting, equipping, assigning, supervising, paying, and motivating them.
Monitoring Structure: The monitoring structure will be functional in character. The reporting organogram
is given below.
Director
Super Shop
Monitoring
Coordinator
National Sales
Manager
Super Shop Sales
Manager
Merchandisers Tracker
Merchandisers
General Manager
2. Basically the key personnel here are Super Shop Sales Manager & Super Shop Sales Coordinator.
Expected roles are given below:
Roles for Super Shop Sales Manager:
• Key personnel for strategic sales management & the corporate team to achieve sales & Super
Shop service standard objectives
• Coordinating with the operation monitoring coordinator
• Creating potential sales possibilities, Product pushing & Order Management.
• Relationship building & product pushing at Super Shops
• Perform as the chain coordinator of Super Shop sales
• Define the performance standard for Merchandisers
• Market Planning & create new opportunities
• Sales Boost up
• Conduct Weekly Meeting
• Overall sales activity monitoring
• Carry all the sales target and achieve them
Roles for Super Shop Monitoring Coordinator:
• Perform as a team leader to know the actual market scenario
• Managing multiple sales / marketing channels & promotional activities
• Continually updating information on changes in marketing environment by the feedback from
subordinates & personal visit.
• Territory Assigning, Rotation & guideline providing to Merchandisers.
3. • Surprise Visit.
• Weekly Meeting with Merchandisers, responsible ordinates & subordinates.
• Training & Motivation
• Feedback Management
• Movement Planning
• Priority base problem solving
• Boost up sales
• Overall Performance Monitoring.
• Competitive advantage
• To find out product movement & fix strategy to increase sales.
• Due collection & Monitoring day to day bill Reconciliation
4. Skills needed for Merchandisers:
• People skills: Which includes abilities to lead, communicate, coordinate, team-oriented relationship,
and mentoring own tasks.
• Managing skills: Which consists of planning, organizing, controlling and decision making for
individual movements & tasks assigned by the coordinator.
• Technical skills: Which includes confirm selling, negotiating, problem-solving, and use of
competitive advantage.
Merchandisers should be recruited upon the consideration of their 1) Product knowledge, (2) market
knowledge, (3) past performance, (4) communication, (5) Merchandising skills
Merchandisers Monitoring:
Continuous monitoring, alerting and rewardingwill lead toimprovementof execution. It will lead us to
the answer of….
Whatwe wantto be…. and where we really are?
Monitoring Merchandisers willinclude several activities. This will make it simple but effective. Activities
could be as follows:
5. Setting up Territories
An individual Merchandiser willbe assigned a single territory consists of existing
and potential Super Shops.
Territory Segmentation of Dhaka Market:
Territory 1: Gulshan 1, Gulshan 2, Banani, Baridhara, Basundhara.
(Lavender, Dedar, Dhali,unimart, haqs mart,Agora,Meena bazaar, Jinia super Mart, KB mega shop,
Basundhara Collections, Mehedi Mart, Pick & Pay, sad –Musa)
Territory 2: Bonosri, Rampura, Malibag, Banglamotor, Iskaton, Mogbazar.
(Deshi super Shop, Big bazaar, shopno,Meena Bazar, Agora)
Territory 3: nikunja,Khilkhet, Uttara, Jashimuddin.
(F&F,Daily Needs, Amana,Family need, Shop& save, Trust family Need,AnondoBazar, 3s Super Shop,
New Deader, Mimi Man, Shopno11,6,)
Territory 4: Mohammadpur, Shamoly, Dhanmondi Total, ajimpur, Firmgate, Panthapath, Hatir Pul
(Agora, Prince Bazar,Meena Bazar, Carri Family, shopno, Almas, Nondon)
6. Territory 5: Sheorapara, Mirpur Total.
(Agora,Meena Bazar, Prience Bazar, Shopno,DSS, Family Bazar,Consumer, orchid,G mart,Dhaka
Bazar,Western Bazar)
Territory 6: Shantinogor,Basabo, Kakrail,Bijoynogor, Gulisthan,wari, Jatrabari.
( Agora , Meena Bazar, Shopno, big bazaar, Nandonik bazar)
Territory 1 Territory 2 Territory 3 Territory 4 Territory 5
Merchandiser 1 Merchandiser 2 Merchandiser 3 Merchandiser 4 Merchandiser 5
Territory Rotation:
For actual performance measurement & fault prevention, merchandiser’s assigned territory could be
routed to observe the performance difference.
7. Dashboard:
A dashboardwill be maintained,which will contain the specific days movement
rout & activity area of every single Merchandiser.It will help to locate & monitor
them & also to measure their daily activity& performances.
Routing:
Each & every territory willbe assigned to an individualmerchandiser& the visiting route will be guided
by the coordinator.
Routing will look alike:
shamolyPrince
Bazar
9.30 am
Md. pur Prince
Bazar
10.15 am
AdaborMeena
Bazar
11 am
Md. Pur Agora
11.45 am
Dhanmondi
MeenaBazar
12.30pm
Dhanmondi Agora
1.30pm
Nandon
3.00 pm
Dhanmondi 15
Meenabazar
3.45 pm
RifelsSquire Agora
4.30 pm
8. Direct Mobile Communication:
As per the company policy they are given individual cell numbers. Merchandiser’s coordinator will
continuously update & monitor the present conditions of every single merchandiser. It will be performed
according to the assigned tasks & activities.
SMS Update:
Merchandisers will make his/her coordinator know about his activities by updating the visiting status of
Individual Super Shop by SMS.
GPS Tracking:
The in house Merchandisers tracker will track their operating area
activity by GPS tracking & report it to the coordinator.
Activity Checklist:
Assigning activitychecklistdepending on previous submitted report can make the performance & service
review easy to coordinate them.
9. Problem Lining:
Finding out the top five problem by their report & give them specific timeline to resolve that, can increase
their operation effectiveness.
Evaluating, Re-evaluatingand Control:
Performance evaluation & timely re- evolution can be used as a well
measure to control the Merchandisers. Expected work standard & actual
outcomes from their service could neutralize on a single line by proper
control
Social media tool or Real Picture:
If the Merchandiseris capable of sending real instant picture using social media tools like Viber or what’s
up, it would be real easy to resolve the problems instantly. Otherwise
they could be asked to click the real scenario & show it while
reporting.
10. Weekly Meeting:
Weekly performance meeting, problem discussion & support activity can motivate them to achieve the
targeted service standard. It will alsohelp us to know the real marketconditions, opportunities & obstacles.
It will alsoincrease the Merchandisers positive mind setto their responsibilities & habitof answering to
their superiors.
Documentations:
Merchandisers will follow the proper activity documentation suggested by the coordinator. It will project
the real picture of any specific Super Shop.
It will be well structured & in written format, which can represent the odds & other problems in a straight
view. It will alsowork as a Provence of any specific merchandiser’s activity.
In Store AuditSystem:
Establishingan in store auditsystem is not too tough. Implementing an intelligentin-store audit system
can lead to significantimprovementin importantKPIs and in this way influence the actual sales.
11. Continuoussupervision:
A positive attitude & continuous supervision will drive them towered marketsuccess & work motivated.
It will increase the effectiveness of command lines & monitoring system will work perfectly.
12. Super Shop Visit Updates
Date Time Territory Super Shop Name Product
category
Display Problem nature Up to date
Sales
Up to
date
Stock
Report to
13. For Merchandisers Knowing:
Over 50% of buying decision are made by consumers in
front of the shelf
Over 60% of the consumers will switch to another brand /
product in case of Out of Stock situations;
Less than 70% of stores have all the agreed /definedMust
Have Products on shelf;
Potentiality gapis the biggestthreatfor the company you are working for, which could turn into a
danger for you also!
Potentiality Gap
14. Starting with Strategy defines the rightmind set to achieve success.
Store is a real battlefield around consumer, you have be the winner.
It is importantto be present in a store but is more importantto be really AVAILABLEto the shoppers
Reportin “real-time” and Act immediately,meansyou are performing yourwork perfectly.
*Task: Merchandise Routing & Evaluation Tools. In Xcell.