Optimized product assortment, pricing, and promotion practices are critical to the success of any retailer. Offering high value systems that enable these processes to be well integrated and providing the right information to your business experts is a constant challenge. We also know that merchandising programs bring constant change. UST Global’s Retail knowledge and technology excellence in a Global delivery model can help you meet your critical merchandising needs.

We have strong experience in merchandising packages including Demandtec, JDA, Softechnics, and Oracle plus others. We work with a broad range of technologies including iSeries, MS, UNIX, and Linux to name a few. UST’s Retail team understands merchandising processes and has the expertise to assist any client to grow their business, improving this functional area of their application portfolio.

Highlights

Our merchandising competencies include the following services: Financial Budgeting and Merchandising Reporting We have expertise in the development and support of allocation, invoice tracking, financial analysis, and in the customizing of budgeting and reporting applications. Merchandise/Assortment Management Whether custom built or a set of best-of-breed packages, we understand the importance of merchandising to retail success. We are experienced in category management and core merchandising systems (package and custom) to manage your critical data including products/stores/warehouses/suppliers. Pricing Our experts build custom-made retail pricing applications and help address competitive pricing and price optimization challenges. In addition we handle packages and the price information integration to Advertising, stores, data stores, etc. Space Management We support technologies and packages for modular planning, category management, and store planning to enable shelf space optimization. Assortment Optimization and Analytics UST has rich experience in merchandising analytics that help save costs and make smarter business decisions. Examples of analytics include: Category P&L Analysis Price and Markdown Optimization Advertising Effectiveness Analysis Vendor Performance Analysis