Retail

Maintaining a profitable, competitive retail presence requires excellence throughout your operations. How much money are you leaving on the shelves?

  • By Sean Adkins, as featured in Supply & Demand Chain Executive

    Industry: Retail, Manufacturing & Distribution
    Capability: Operations Excellence
    Date: May 16, 2013

    Sean Adkins, of West Monroe Partners, breaks down the manufacturing discussion on onshored versus offshored employees. 

  • By Yves Belanger, as featured in Retail Online Integration

    Industry: Retail
    Capability: Operations Excellence
    Date: April 26, 2013

    Yves Belanger, of West Monroe Partners, articulates tips to better manage product supply chain complexities that come along with the need for growth. 

  • As featured in CQCD's Le Détaillant

    Industry: Retail
    Capability: Workforce Optimization, Operations Excellence

    This article initially appeared in CQCD magazine, published in December 2012.

     

    Putting together a new store or retail concept is an art where it is important to leverage science as a creative tool. Reducing the total operating costs throughout the entire life cycle of the point of sale is bound to be a strategic issue. In Canada, a significant percentage of investments are infrastructure-related. According to Statistics Canada, more than $2.7 billion of the $5.5 billion spent in 2010 on infrastructure was related to shopping malls or centers and retail outlets, and this trend is increasing. Hence, analyzing various factors of the total surface area of the point of sale is key to a sound operation.

  • As featured in CQCD's Le Détaillant

    Industry: Retail
    Capability: Workforce Optimization, Operations Excellence
    Date: December 10, 2012
    Putting together a new store or retail concept is an art where it is important to leverage science as a creative tool. Reducing the total operating costs throughout the entire life cycle of the point of sale is bound to be a strategic issue. In Canada, a significant percentage of investments are infrastructure-related. According to Statistics Canada, more than $2.7 billion of the $5.5 billion spent in 2010 on infrastructure was related to shopping malls or centers and retail outlets, and this trend is increasing. Hence, analyzing various factors of the total surface area of the point of sale is key to a sound operation.
  • West Monroe helped a leading retailer gain greater visibility into inventory management costs with a detailed store inventory time and motion study

    Industry: Retail
    Capability: Workforce Optimization, Operations Excellence
    Partnering with West Monroe and equipped with a customized calculation tool for inventory management, the client was able to improve processes and store operations, better manage costs and position themselves to deliver on aggressive growth goals.
  • Leveraging our discrete labor management system, a Canadian food manufacturer was able to implement reliable and transparent engineered labor standards.

    Industry: Manufacturing & Distribution, Retail
    Capability: Workforce Optimization, Operations Excellence
    Working with West Monroe to implement FLEXdls™, the client achieved 24% productivity improvement on the cases selection standard and gained visibility into productivity levels for all functions within their distribution center.
  • When a Canadian retailer wanted to review their labor standards, they turned to the engineering and warehouse management expertise of West Monroe.

    Industry: Manufacturing & Distribution, Retail
    Capability: Workforce Optimization, Operations Excellence
    West Monroe helps a retailer better manage labor costs, instill greater union confidence and establish a higher level of productivity.
  • Retailers are increasingly forced to evolve their store concepts to remain competitive and well positioned.

    Industry: Retail
    Capability: Workforce Optimization, Operations Excellence
    As customer needs and competitors evolve, retailers increasingly are forced to evolve their store concepts to remain competitive and well positioned. Evolution enables retailers to retain customers, strengthen customer experience, and ultimately achieve sales goals.
  • A full-featured iPhone application enables an online community to strengthen connections with its current and prospective members.

    Industry: Retail
    Capability: Digital
    Define My Style now has an established presence within the iOS App Store, enhancing is brand, reaching millions of potential new customers and offering rich new capabilities to current members.
  • A well-crafted road map provides an approach for strengthening both the balance sheet and customer relationships.

    Industry: Retail
    Capability: Customer Experience, Supply Chain, Operations Excellence
    After examining a fashion company's supply chain, West Monroe helped the company achieve more accurate and timely deliveries and prioritize the actions that will provide the best ROI opportunities.
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