Supplier Management & Buying

Increase Customer Loyalty and Reduce Costs by Buying Strategically and Collaborating Effectively with Suppliers

The retail industry has become an increasingly collaborative business. Thanks to technological advances, business partners that once operated in siloed work environments can now share information and work together in ways that were previously not possible. The relationships between retailers and suppliers are being transformed into true partnerships, with both parties benefiting from the increased visibility and just in time planning capabilities that collaboration provides.

With Aldata Supplier Management and Buying solutions retailers are now able to take advantage of strategies such as investment buying, demand-based forecasting and improved rebate condition management. They are also dramatically improving the efficiency of product information management and taking better advantage of supplier promotion opportunities. The result is optimized supplier relationships and savings that make a direct contribution to the bottom line.

Achieve Supply Chain Visibility Outside Your Own Four Walls

As the industry’s leading software specialist, Aldata offers solutions that make highly collaborative, mutually beneficial relationships between retailers and suppliers a reality:

• Collaborate effectively with suppliers and achieve supply chain visibility outside the four walls of your organization
• Use demand-based forecasting to optimize inventory levels, reducing out of stocks, overstocks, and carrying costs
• Automate and customize new product adoption by creating tailored workflows for an unlimited number of items
• Maximize benefits from rebate programs by automatically managing complex agreement structures and tracking conditions, timeframes, and submission deadlines
• Apply investment buying strategies by automatically tracking supplier promotions and taking advantage of them to reduce product costs

For more information about how Aldata can you help you more effectively manage supplier relationships and optimize buying functions, please contact us.