SAS showcases its next generation of retail intelligence offerings at Retail Solutions

New capabilities will enable superior, faster merchandising and pricing decisions

06 June 2005 -  SAS, the leader in business intelligence, is launching its revenue optimisation solution and will showcase exciting new additions to its industry-leading merchandise and retail intelligence suites at Retail Solutions, NEC in Birmingham, starting 7th June 2005.

Following the acquisition of Marketmax in 2003, SAS invested aggressively to deliver solutions that enable retailers to make better decisions faster. "In the past year, we significantly increased our commitment to the retail industry, and the solutions we are showcasing this year at Retail Solutions demonstrate the advancements we have made in this area," said Jim Davis, chief marketing officer at SAS. "In addition to a strong investment in people and products, we are forging strategic partnerships with industry-leading retailers to direct our development efforts and to ensure that the solutions we create are powerful, yet easy-to-use and drive adoption and business value for our customers."

SAS will be launching its revenue optimisation solution at Retail Solutions. This technology provides retailers with a solution that capitalises on promotions and markdowns, and at the same time, reduces the amount of time and effort in executing and managing promotions and markdown plans. The SAS Revenue Optimisation suite combines data management, forecasting and optimisation capabilities and is the leading solution available today that helps retailers manage revenue and margin through the entire merchandise life cycle.

SAS will also be showcasing the following new additions to the suite of merchandise and retail intelligence solutions from Marketmax and SAS:

• Intelligent demand forecasting: Increase the precision of retail merchandising decisions by using intelligent forecasts that automatically account for seasonality, trends, promotions and price changes in the financial and assortment planning processes. With very little forecasting overhead, deploy the solution directly into the merchandise planning process.
• Integrated Merchandise Planning: provides complete planning capabilities for the merchandising process, including Performance Analysis, Financial Planning, Assortment Planning, Space Planning, In-Season Planning (WSSI) Allocation and more.
• Advanced Space Optimisation: Using sophisticated analytics, allocates the appropriate amount of space to each component of the range to maximise your return per metre.

These solutions will be shown at Booth D12 at the NEC, Birmingham.

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