Grocers

New Business Models for Today’s Food-Retailing Challenges

Food retailers compete in on razor slim margins. Products move at a fast pace. Distribution and warehouse management are critical operations. Plus real-time inventory, visibility and utopian replenishment are major challenges.

With their strategic sights on growth, leading grocers need fresh, new business models. They’re adding more private labels to their mix while juggling online shopping’s challenges in transportation and delivery. What’s more, they are learning to differentiate themselves with smarter in-store shopping experiences.

We are helping grocers grow their businesses. Our team understands that smart management of in-store receiving, tracking, and planning is important. We know real-time supply chain visibility is a must, and that grocers need better management of costly promotional programs.

Our solutions help optimize prices, incorporate intelligent inventory planning and implement high-powered POS systems to speed checkout and enhance the customer experience.

Examples of Our Work

  • For a U.S. grocer: We implemented a new category-management system, enabling the company to customize store inventory to meet each store’s pattern of local demand. Such solutions typically yield the fastest paybacks in retailing today.
  • For a large UK-based grocery and general merchandise retailer: As strategic partner, our team enhanced the organization’s portfolio of applications across disparate business units to support the chain’s store expansion.
  • For another large UK grocery retailer: We significantly improved the online grocery services and helped select the mobile product suite and the hardware vendor.

In addition, we have created a series of innovative tools to fit the grocery segment’s new dynamics.

  • Our HPaS solution offers shoppers information on health and nutrition and personalized alerts.
  • RISA is our latest mobile application that reliably delivers real-time analytics for store managers.

We understand food retailing, and we can help you implement the IT systems and operational process improvements that advance your business goals.

 
  • “Cognizant delivered a cost-effective mix of retail talent, best practices and incredible analytical/reporting tools. We achieved the impossible: category management in 30 days!”