Advanced Reporting & Analytics
Data analysis is our core competency. Our analytical tools provide dynamic omnichannel reporting for all facets of Walmart business. The uniqueness and adaptability of these reports are specific to your needs. This detailed reporting allows our analyst and sales team to stay ahead of potential logistic and inventory issues with Walmart, to correct the course when needed. Our reports reflect Walmart’s changing goals, ensuring that they are always met. For example, our in-depth OTIF (On Time In Full) reporting continuously helps our clients avoid costly fines while keeping their items in-stock at the store level, which will increase the sales of your items.
Simply put, we help you dive deep into your item’s sales and replenishment figures to see areas of improvement. Once we have identified a root cause to your issue, we will lay out a corrective plan of action to your replenishment manager. Our customizable experience and weekly reporting ensure that you will always know the health of your items during all stages of Walmart’s supply chain.
OCM’S ANALYTICS TEAM
Our goal as an analytics team is to build relationships with our clients so that we can provide the highest level of service, analysis, insights, and reporting. Our analytics team is made up of a hard-working group of people with a wide range of strengths and skillsets. This allows us, even as a smaller company, to provide our clients with all analytics and reporting that they may need. Our team delivers high quality reporting in a timely manner with insights into how you can improve and expand your business.
WEEKLY & DAILY REPORTING
OCM has a comprehensive set of reports that are delivered starting Monday morning and as needed throughout the week. These reports will cover the entirety of our clients’ business with Walmart and Sam’s mostly from a macro level then dive into the details of your business. The goal of these reports is to allow our team to derive insights about your business and identify areas where we can affect positive change, solve problems, or even anticipate future issues. These reports cover everything from in-store and Ecommerce sales, markdowns, sales forecasting (GRS), order forecasting (Supply Plan), store and DC inventory, supply chain, store and Ecommerce OTIF, SQEP and ASN. As Walmart’s priorities change and they add new programs, OCM is committed to providing our clients with excellent data and reporting to get ahead of those changes and stay ahead. Beyond that, we have reporting available that is specific to our DSD vendors because we recognize that their needs are and can be very different.
CUSTOM REPORTING
OCM’s analytics team will work with you to find any areas of need and customize reporting to cover those needs. Whether you need to dig into the details of a problem area to find the root cause or we are creating a report to combat Walmart’s changing landscape, we are confident that we can handle all custom reporting tasks. It doesn’t just have to be Retail Link or Luminate data either. If your company has access to syndicated IRI or Nielsen data, our team is experience with and capable of creating reporting using that data as well. Not only that, but we are also constantly evaluating ourselves with a critical eye to make sure that we are providing the most complete and the highest quality set of reports possible to our vendors.
Walmart Luminate
Our team has invested and worked in Walmart Luminate to ensure our clients are getting the most out of their investment in Luminate. We fully expect Walmart will require suppliers to get Luminate by early 2024 and our goal is to be prepared and use our extensive knowledge to help suppliers through this transition and from then on out. We continue to lead as a broker, by going beyond just selling and understanding data driven decisions are key to growing a supplier’s business at Walmart. We will continue to invest and increase our knowledge in Walmart Luminate to ensure suppliers don’t have to hire a full team to do what OCM can provide. Please reach out below if you are looking for either full brokerage or Luminate support.