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Leveraging Location for Better Decisions

AWhere CPG

AWhere CPG: Bring Your Point of Sales Data to Life

What is AWhere CPG?

Powerful mapping and geo-analytics tools to transform your POS and Walmart Retail Link data into profit-driven actions.

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Features

  • Analyze performance at the store & trade levels
  • Anticipate & avoid inventory challenges
  • Determine micro-price elasticity
  • Optimize product mix

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In Action

  • Walmart & weather forecasts
  • Killing the competition
  • Store level sales & Nielsen markets
  • Inventory balancing
  • Identifying clusters of clusters

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AWhere CPG: Your Questions - Answered

Key Advantages

  • Insight to Action
    Advanced mapping and geo-analytics take you from spreadsheets and pivot tables to instantly recognizing patters and trends.
  • Store-Level Detail
    Analyze your data and get answers at any level of geographic detail, down to the store!
  • One-Touch Import for Walmart Retail Link Data
    Import your Retail Link data quickly and easily to answer your questions faster than you can ask them.
  • Your Data, on the Map
    Even if you don’t use Retail Link, AWhere CPG will geo-analyze all your POS data, easily and visually.
  • Third Party Data
    AWhere CPG includes 2008 demographic variables, weather forecasts, Walmart Stores, and options for Nielsen ScanTrack & DMA, IRI InfoScan, & SPINS Markets.
  • "See" Performance Data
    YoY sales comparisons, inventories, velocities, and virtually all your performance data, mapped, analyzed, and communicated in an easy to read, instantly obvious manner.

Walmart & Weather Forecasts

The animated weather map shows a storm system blowing across the MidWest for 4 days, then shows with Walmart stores (highlighted in yellow) that will experience at least 5mm of rain for 3 days in a row at the end of the week. If you sell umbrellas, run a marketing campaign in these specific Walmart stores to beat out your competition!



Killing the Competition

Sales decreasing and not sure why? Here, the sales of a competitor are mapped against a client's, showing their sales are increasing by geographic region. Quick research indicates they have been running marketing campaigns in those regions only. Counter with highly targeted campaigns of your own to quickly stop their growth and boost your own sales!



Store-Level Sales & Nielsen Markets

Two clicks. That’s how many it will take you to view your over- and under-performing stores, in each of the 210 Nielsen Markets.



Balance Your Inventory

In this image, pie charts represent store-level product velocity, while red vertical bars represent days out-of-stock. This map instantly identifies multiple distribution issues for our client. Geographic visualization is a powerful technique for analyzing days-on-hand inventory before a promotion is implemented. By mapping days-on-hand with color thresholds, you will quickly pinpoint opportunities of overstock in proximity to under-stock for optimizing inventory balance contributing directly to improved margins.



Identifying Clusters of Clusters

Finding stores that exhibit similar selling characteristics is often irrelevant of proximity. AWhere CPG allows you to rapidly identify clusters of stores, and clusters of clusters, so you can pinpoint focus to geographic areas with greatest potential for profitability!



Your Chief Demographic

Index your sales against targeted demographics by store to find out high correlations of who is and who isn’t buying your product. Then use clustering to find stores where your product should be selling high, but isn’t, and run marketing campaigns. Watch your sales skyrocket!



Screenshots

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AWhere CPG includes

Wal-Mart Retail Link Import Wizard

A fully automated wizard that rips apart that 40,000 line POS Excel spreadsheet generated by your Retail Link report template. It separates your data by product grouping all the performance attributes with each. And of course it displays each performance indicator across all 3600 Wal-Marts and 600 Sam’s Clubs. The Wizard also magically indexes key performance indicators to the nation and to the market: you choose whether to index to IRI InfoScan or Nielsen Scantrack or DMA markets.

Linkable Map Layers

CPG provides a series of built-in map layers that are used to render all our sales, demographic, and weather displays. You can also use these layers to link external Excel spreadsheets from your company data, syndicated reports from IRI, Nielson or SPINS, or from any Internet or 3rd party source. Linkable layers include:

  • US States (50)
  • US Counties (3141)
  • US Counties (3141)
  • Wal-Mart and Sam’s Clubs (>4200)
  • Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club trade areas
  • IRI InfoScan Markets (65)
  • Nielsen Scantrack Markets (52)
  • Nielsen DMA Markets (210)

2008 US Demographic Estimates

AWhere has teamed with a census statistics company to provide 2008 estimates of the demographic breakdown of the entire USA. We’ve pre-calculated about 100 demographic variables covering ethnicity, age breakdowns, household income, and household consumer goods spending. These 100 variables are pre-aggregated to the states, county, IRI and Nielsen Markets and down to the trade area of each individual Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club store location.

Weather Impact Forecasts

For years, AWhere has been an online weather map supplier to Farm Journal and major Agricultural companies around the world. Now, CPG can access our daily 10-day history and 10-day forecast weather maps electronically via our web services. Included are history and forecasts for daily min/max temperatures, average humidity and precipitation. We also provide this same 10 day forecast pre-calculated for each Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club.

Microsoft Virtual Earth

AWhere provides the business acumen. Microsoft does Windows and Streets. By itself, Virtual Earth can plot a few hundred points. With a little help from AWhere, you can visualize thousands of store locations and color themed county and zip code polygons. Anytime you wish, a single mouse-click will turn on Microsoft Virtual Earth street and satellite views under your POS and demographic displays to make sure your insights stay grounded.


The 52 Nielson Scantrack® Markets


The 65 IRI InfoScan® Markets


The 210 Nielsen DMA® Markets


US Census 2008 Demographic Estimates
AWhere CPG includes market and market definitions to map data from Excel Spreadsheets against IRI InfoScan, Nielsen Scantrack and DMA markets as well as Zip Codes, Counties and States.

 

Download the AWhere CPG Sales Sheet (PDF; 2 MB)

 

How Can We Help You?

If you’re intrigued about how AWhere CPG can help your cause, give us a call. We would like to understand your product challenges and help you start using a new solution providing insight today… that your competition can only dream about tomorrow.

Call us at 877-355-0556 and ask for our CPG Solution Specialist or visit www.awhere.com
 

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