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Retailers continue to grow with SAS®Upgraded SAS® Revenue Optimisation and SAS® Size Optimisation demonstrated at NRF BIG SHOW11 January 2010 - SAS, the leader in business analytics, is previewing enhancements to its revenue optimisation and size optimisation product suites this week during the National Retail Federation’s 2010 BIG SHOW in New York City. SAS has a strong architecture for retailers with a common platform for all phases of the pricing life cycle, including common pricing rules, forecasting and business analytics. With the upgrades, SAS moves into a new generation of maturity for these solutions by extending the architecture to include more visibility for merchants and additional capabilities for grocery and apparel customers. What should retailers look for in these systems? “Retailers have long known that they need a central demand plan that is informed by – and can, in turn, inform – all merchandising and supply chain activities,” said Hung LeHong, Vice President Retail Research with Gartner, in his November 2009 Research Note titled Rethinking Retail Forecasting and Optimisation Architecture. “Next-generation technology will take them there. Choose vendors that have a solid vision for how merchandising and supply chain processes share a common demand planning, forecasting and optimisation base. Ensure that their solutions are also open to using components from other vendors or customer applications.” Diana McHenry, SAS Director of Global Retail, said, “Our wins in 2009 included customers who realised they could see better results with SAS Retail. Retailers also innovated with a combination of great merchandise and brand strategy coupled with leading-edge technology. SAS offers solutions in both services and behind-the-firewall deployments, and SAS provides retailers with the best results through our advanced retail solutions, predictive analytics and continued investments.” About SAS® Revenue Optimisation
SAS Revenue Optimisation Suite, which includes SAS® Regular Price Optimisation, SAS® Promotion Optimisation and SAS® Markdown Optimisation, is used by retailers of all sizes across segments from apparel to grocery. The product provides the best profit results for retailers because the solution is precise, proactive, and makes retailers more productive. The SAS Revenue Optimisation Suite helps retailers make the best possible pricing decisions at appropriate levels of detail, across all types of products through the use of analytics. SAS combines advanced data management, forecasting and optimisation capabilities within a user-friendly format so retailers can manage performance, analyse “what if” scenarios, and create customised pricing alerts. About SAS® Size Optimisation SAS® Size Optimisation is built on two primary software applications. SAS® Size Profiling and SAS® Pack Optimisation. SAS Size Profiling automatically generates store-specific size profiles from multiple product perspectives including department, class, style and colour to ensure the highest precision of relative size demand for each product. SAS Pack Optimisation indicates the best supply decisions by determining the ideal order quantities of each available shipping case, including combinations of multi-sized and single-sized configurations to best meet individual stores’ size needs across multiple deliveries. The enhanced versions of SAS Revenue Optimisation and SAS Size Optimisation will be generally available to customers in early Q2 2010. SAS retail customers include Aeropostale, AutoZone, Bakers Footwear, Brooks Brothers, Burger King, Cabela’s, Carrefour, Casino, Casual Male, The Children’s Place, Eddie Bauer, Family Dollar, Hallmark, Hudson’s Bay Company, JCPenney, Kohl’s, Luxottica Retail, Macy’s, Mark’s Work Wearhouse, Marks & Spencer, Northern Tool & Equipment, Office Depot, Sainsbury’s, ShopKo, Sport Chalet, Spiegel Brands, Staples, Tesco, Tilly’s, Tween Brands, Waitrose, Wakefern, Williams-Sonoma and 1-800-FLOWERS.COM.
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