| Your Business At A Glance |
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Your Business At A Glance Report is critical to your survival in knowing where your business stands with Wal-Mart.
It provides you with up to the minute sales dollars and numbers based upon your Wal-Mart Buyer. You can see: year
to date sales dollars and numbers compared to last year through Wal-Mart's week, last weeks sales dollars and numbers
compared to last year, along with week to date total stores and week to date comp stores sales dollars compared
to last year.
You can also monitor if your overall item sales dollars are up year to date and if last weeks sales were up too, along
with Wal-Mart's purchases for the same time periods.
Can you imagine the effect of having this information at your fingertips as your discussing
your line and it's performance with your buyer?
| POS / Point Of Sale Statistics |
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Your Weekly POS / In-Stock Report is another crucial report that is vital to your survial with Wal-Mart. With this point
of sale report, you can compare the same item year to year by Wal-Mart Week for: item quantities sold, actual POS cost
and retail sales, various forms of item availability, in-stock percentages, traited stores, unit turns and retail
turns.
As with Your Business At A Glance Report, can you imagine the effect of having this information
at your fingertips as your discussing your line and it's performance with your buyer?
| In-Stock Percentages Report |
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The above In-Stock Percentages Report is the most crucial of the three examples
found on this page. With this one report, you will manage your inventory with Wal-Mart while driving and increasing bottom-line
sales dollars for both your company and Wal-Mart alike.
In using this report, you will find: your items replinishment in-stock percentage, replinishment store count your item
is in, and the number of replinishment out of stock stores that are either low on or completely out-of-stock
on your item.
In using the number of replinishment out of stock stores you can write your own orders to get stock in
those stores to right away and not wait a few weeks for Wal-Mart to realize store number 22 in Whichita Falls, TX is out of
stock.
Hence, this is where increased sales dollars for your company and Wal-Mart are gained due to a store not being out
of stock and ultimately losing a paying customer.
By managing this one report and your inventory, it will influence the statistics and percenatges on all the reports reviewed
by your buyer. It also lets the buyer know that you are managing your business, have a pulse as to where your business stands
with Wal-Mart, and that you're a pro-active vendor and have Wal-Mart's best interest in mind.
With just these few reports, do you now understand their effects on your buyer? Do you now
see just by managing your business with Wal-Mart can lead to additional stores your item is traited in or to additional products
being carried by Wal-Mart?
Don't let your competitor get a leg up on your business by providing or beng aware of how easy it can be to manage your
business with Wal-Mart when dealing with the buyer. By allowing The RDC Group assist in managing your business, you can look
like a sure-bet vendor when compared to your competition.
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