Helping clients make the most informed business decisions, our associates work in tandem with our clients to provide customized, fact-based research in the areas of category management, sales planning and execution, and corporate reporting. Our team of dedicated account managers and analysts offers personal client service and provides unparalleled support of our customers’ goals. Empower IT offers a wide range of standard reporting options, which can also be customized to clients’ needs based on specific business issues.

Category Management: Determine the appropriate growth strategy for your items by understanding the dynamics within the category and performance of your competitors. From a complete customized category review to determining optimal space allocation, Empower IT analysts have the information you need regarding:

• category contribution reports
• stock assortment optimization
• new item tracking
• store reset analyses
• top 500 reports

Sales Planning and Execution: Measure your sales performance against plan by evaluating the success of promotional strategies, extent of market coverage, and out of stock conditions. Empower IT has the tools and resources needed to effectively manage your sales territories and adjust tactics to maximize sales opportunities:

• distribution by gap reporting
• store indexing reports
• seasonal analyses
• promotion execution and lift
• daily data
• speed to shelf

Corporate Reporting: Emulate your corporate reporting standards across all channels. Summarize your business by tracking sales trends, share, pricing, promotion, and distribution to expose changes in product performance and underlying causal factors. Empower IT offers clients complete customized business reviews assessing a client’s total portfolio, as well as automated topline deliveries customized to client specifications. Empower IT’s analytical services also produce executive summary reports, which can be integrated with other data sources to produce a more comprehensive business overview, such as Total Base sales, incorporating commissary and exchange data sets.