We live in unpredictable times where disruption has made its presence felt globally in many companies, especially retailers and consumer goods companies.

Digitization is making the supply chain faster, smarter, connected and autonomous. The digital economy and recent disruptions have been impacting every industry with no exception. Retailers and consumer goods companies face increasing demand volatility. Customers expect synchronized experiences across channels, high service levels, and dependable on-shelf performance. As personalization, competitive pricing and replenishment become more relevant to maintain competitiveness, retailers and consumer goods companies need to make the right decisions at the right time to influence expected outcomes.

There is an undeniable movement happening right now, the convergence of 3 factors: powerful (and affordable!) computing power, abundance of data, and availability of analytics and algorithms to solve business problems We see more and more retail and consumer goods organizations adopting advanced analytics, knowing how to use it, how to interpret and leverage the results.

The series hosted by SAS Retail experts is designed to provide the retail community with quality thought leadership content on the most important topics of today’s retail challenges.

What attendees will learn: 

• How successful organizations are transforming retail and CG planning into a continuous, flexible and innovative process.
• How to be more conscious when pricing to effectively improving margin or diminishing inventory. 
• How to automate and accelerate demand insights across your supply chain. 
• How top brands are using data and analytics in new ways to engage customers.
• What retailers must do with analytics and data to achieve their metrics and beat the competition.
• How to generate a clear bridge between supply chain & planning with customer experience.
• How to correctly manage Fresh Food Replenishment in a very dynamic environment