Specialty Stores: Make Your Supply Chain a Secret Weapon

Predicting consumer preferences poses significant challenges for specialty store retailers. And, once a trend is identified, rapid response to capitalise on fickle tastes is essential to success. You need a comprehensive view of demand across all channels to capture data that indicate a shift in customer desires and the ability to act on that information quickly.

With the specific tools and visibility that specialty store retailers require, Manhattan Associates’ supply chain solutions give you the flexibility and information when you need it so you don't end up with inventory that doesn't sell, unexpected markdowns or stock-outs on hot sellers. Our specialty store solutions enable you to re-plan throughout the season; optimise inventory; effectively manage all aspects of promotions; forecast at the product, store cluster and channel level, and improve overall customer service.

Whether you want to enable multi-channel distribution and manage both bulk and piece-pick orders based on changing customer demand or use put-to-store and flow-through functionality, our supply chain solutions for specialty retailers can make it happen. They also allow you to build store-ready shipments and support inbound and outbound value-added services—all from the same integrated platform.

Manhattan's Specialty Gives You a Competitive Advantage

We know what works for specialty stores and have created solutions that support your reputation for great customer service and allow you to keep costs and cycle times to a minimum. Manhattan SCOPE®: Supply Chain Optimisation—Planning through Execution solutions offer you:

• Planning and Forecasting: Anticipate demand—and respond quickly when it changes. Accurately predict inventory requirements for promotions, seasons or store clusters to increase sales, minimise working capital demands and keep customers happy.
• Order Lifecycle Management: Manage the order process efficiently from supplier to customer, and even back again, and you save money.
• Inventory Optimisation: Avoid rush charges, express delivery fees, excess inventory and unhappy customers with sophisticated inventory optimisation capability.
• Distribution Management: From your suppliers' loading dock to your customer's front door, leverage flow-through capabilities to streamline your distribution process, deliver faster and reduce costs.
• Flow Management: Integrate your demand, supply and inventory strategies from planning through distribution.
• Extended Enterprise Management: Collaborate with your trading partners to efficiently communicate and ensure goods move smoothly to your customers at minimum cost.
• Supply Chain Visibility: See a single, consistent, real-time view of your entire global supply chain for greater inventory control, promote optimal fulfillment channels, and reduce cycle time variability to lower safety stock levels.
• Supply Chain Event Management: Track and monitor supply chain events real-time and respond immediately based upon alerts to critical exception events, which may threaten your ability to meet customer demand.

Contact a Manhattan representative to learn more about our supply chain solutions specifically designed for specialty retailers.