Merchandising involves strategically presenting products or services to attract consumer attention and drive sales. By leveraging real-time data analytics, businesses can adopt a data-driven approach, enabling merchandisers to log sales and marketing data continuously.
Encouraging merchandisers to log sales and marketing data as it comes in allows your team to have a constant stream of communication
Using real time data analytics to take a data driven approach to merchandising.
Merchandising Best Practices
Monitoring Competition
Keeping an eye on your competition is necessary to remain relevant in the market.
Ensuring Retailer Compliance
With so many different products populating store shelves, sometimes retailers are understandably less concerned with perfect product presentation than they are with sales and profit.
Staying On Top of Orders
Out-of-stocks result in a direct loss of brand loyalty and equity, and encourage shoppers to reach for competitors' products, Procter & Gamble found.
Properly Merchandising Shelves
A clean, well-stocked shelf will look more appealing to customers than a unkempt, nearly empty shelf.
Collecting and Analyzing Merchandising
Observational Data.
Sales data
Activity data
Retail execution
Visual merchandising :
Some examples of visual merchandising displays include window displays, POP displays, and cross-merchandising displays.
Visually attract the consumer
Capture the attention of consumers
Merchandising Audits
Answers questions such as
Which retailers do I need to check in with more often to ensure retailer compliance?
Where am I selling the most of which products?
What displays are most appealing to my audience?
It will be carried out periodically to have the product constantly available
They measure the quality of the displays in the retailers you sell to and help identify successes and areas for improvement
Official report on retailer compliance and rep efficiency.
Responsibilities of the merchant
• Analyzing sales data - reporting growth, expansion, and change in markets
• Gathering information on market trends and customers’ reactions to products
• Maintaining inventory of products
• Creating and organizing promotions and advertising campaigns
• Ensuring retailer compliance with merchandising strategies
• Collaborating with suppliers, manufacturers, and retailers to ensure proper execution of merchandising plans
The best way to present products or services to our customers where the various trends are analyzed to capture the full attention of customers or buyers