Collaborate with Suppliers

Improve deals, enhance productivity with Collaborate

Enhance, automate, and share with Revionics Collaborate, the new portal for retailers and their trading partners.

Collaborate offers a new way to make supplier communication more effective. Designed to reflect the culmination of feedback from the 100+ retailers in the Revionics retailer community, Collaborate offers an improved way for retailers to communicate with their suppliers.

Collaborate collects, hosts, and reports upon the numerous types of supplier data the retailer must manage every day.   Today, this information comes in numerous methods - Email, fax, e-Commerce, even other trading exchanges.  The result is the retailer must spend countless hours and experience administrative nightmares attempting to reconcile the data.

Conversely, the supplier is left asking the question - Why should I comply?  This question is easily answered by Retailers with Collaborate:  Participate, and gain visibility to the forecast, category performance reports, promotional calendars, and more.  Retailers can choose to empower their suppliers with better information that ultimately enables the creation of more quality deals.

Revionics Collaborate includes the following features and much more:

• Improve negotiations with online deal management:  Retailers can share forecasts, actual results, and performance reports to help the supplier offer more informed deals.  Deals are entered, negotiated, tracked, and stored in one central repository.  
• Share the impact of price and promotion to the forecast:  Retailers know in advance how price and promotion will impact demand with Revionics Forecast, and can now share this information with their suppliers.  Advanced knowledge of potential impact will improve the quality and relevance of the deals offered.
• Collect and host supplier data:  Retailers struggling with the administrative tasks of collecting supplier and item information can leverage Collaborate as a data collecting and hosting solution.  Collaborate accepts a variety of data transmission types, including manual entry.
• Supplier performance reports and bill-back assistance:  Pertinent reports can be shared with the retailers’ supply community, including store-level forecasting, sales performance, and promotional plans and calendars.  Electronic scan-down reports automate and expedite collection of deal monies.
• Integrate to Revionics replenishment and lifecycle pricing:  Retailers leveraging Revionics solutions, such as store-level replenishment automation, inventory optimization, and promotion planning solutions can provide their suppliers closed-loop communication about item, store, and enterprise level performance.  Enhanced visibility empowers the supplier to play a more active role in ensuring retailer success.
• Structure the right type of deployment for your organization:  Collaborate acts as an extension of the retailer, with customized branding options, and can be configured in a centralized, decentralized, or mixed mode environment.  Merge Collaborate with Revionics solutions, other merchandising solutions, or supplier systems for improved automation.
• Synchronize Collaborate to your other e-commerce initiatives:  For retailers and suppliers already leveraging an existing trading exchange or other method of e-commerce, Collaborate can accept data feeds from these sources and further enhance the supply chain relationship with additional functionality.