Marketplace and Quality Assurance Presentation - Vincent Chirchir
Blasting Off To Faster Business Growth
1. Blas%ng
Off
To
Faster
Business
Growth
How
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Panelists
Debbie Hauss
Editor-in-Chief
Retail TouchPoints
MODERATOR
Rich Shane
CEO
Rocket Fizz
Brad Malmberg
Director of Sales
Engineering & Training
Lightspeed POS
6. Blasting Off to Faster
Business Growth
Brad Malmberg
Director of Sales Engineering
Lightspeed POS
Rich Shane
CEO
Rocket Fizz
Debbie Hauss
Editor-in-Chief
Retail TouchPoints
7. What we will cover today
• Scaling for growth
• Managing a high volume
supply chain
• How technology solutions
can help
12. Problems Uncovered
• Store openings were not efficient
• Limited visibility into sell-through data
• Old-school cash registers a headache
• Hard to search for and find specific inventories
• Re-ordering based on intuition and eyeballing
14. Store Opening Efficiency
PROBLEM: 25 pallets arrive at once!
• Temperature sensitive products
• Blocking the sidewalk & access to other stores
• Team waiting for instruction
• Owner anxious to make the cash flow
• Paper-based invoicing & pricing system ...BAD
16. Sell-through Data Efficiency
PROBLEM: 1,000s of SKUs, but which are the best
sellers?
• Inventory = cash “invested” into business
• When to invest?
• Into what?
• Products on shelves = Sales opportunities
• Right products on shelves = Sales
18. Cash Register Headaches
PROBLEM: “Register tape is in the mail”
• Calculate % of sales revenue
• Teaching owners to become merchants
• Line busting
• Store roll-up across multiple registers
• Cash register reports vs. POS reports
21. Searching & Finding Specific Items
PROBLEM: “Do you carry…” “Can you get…”
• 30+ suppliers
• 1,000s of products
• What hot’s now?
• “I’m having a party, can you help me?”
23. Inventory Management
PROBLEM: What do I need to reorder?
• 20,000+ SKUs in the universe
• 3,000 to 4,000 SKUs in each store
• Visual inspection vs. Auto reorder
• Guesses vs. Sales trends
24. Additional Resources
Independent Retailers
Guide to Buying Inventory
POS Buyer’s
Guide
The Psychology of Price
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12 Retail KPIs You Need to
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Panelists
Debbie Hauss
Editor-in-Chief
Retail TouchPoints
MODERATOR
Rich Shane
CEO
Rocket Fizz
Brad Malmberg
Director of Sales
Engineering & Training
Lightspeed POS
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