Vendor Report Card
Product
In today’s retail world, the trend is toward purchasing from a larger mix of
Epicor Eagle
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Benefits
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Keep your retail operation
competitive by ensuring
that vendor product delivery
vendors. This is common with large and multi-store operations, and can be a
useful strategy even for single-store and co-op retailers.
Why? So retailers can let vendors compete for their business, by serving them
better—with timely deliveries, better prices and discounts, and fewer errors.
To earn their business, vendors will also need to keep quality up and defect
rates down.
is both timely and in
To follow this approach, a buyer needs extensive information on vendor
accurate quantities
performance—in formats that simplify analysis—and are concise enough to
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Negotiate the best possible
terms—merchandising
support, dating, discounts
and promotions with your
judiciously share with vendors as part of the negotiation process.
Now, a new solution from Epicor helps retailers using the Eagle system to
manage their businesses to take advantage of this proven, best-practice strategy.
vendors—by presenting factbased vendor performance
data, not just anecdotes
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Promote better service from
every vendor by showing
them precisely how well they
are meeting your needs
Rate your vendors with hard data and
watch vendor performance soar
The Vendor Report Card solution works with your Eagle system and Compass
Analytics and measures how well your vendors perform for your business—
presenting objective information in a concise format.
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Learn which vendors best
serve your business, and shift
The solution is designed to move data relevant to vendor performance from your
more of your purchasing
Eagle system into Compass Analytics, where reports are prepared in a Microsoft®
to them
Excel® format you can use in a number of ways. To enable a complete vendor
performance analysis, more than 100 new data fields have been added to the
Eagle system database.
The Vendor Report Card can be configured in a number of different ways to
help you analyze—and share with vendors as appropriate—in the most effective
manner. You choose from a wide range of data—sales, returns, defectives,
margins, inventory performance, order accuracy, freight, and more—and filter
the data to zero in on a store, product grouping, manufacturer, time frame, or
other qualifiers.
Other reports include Vendor Market Basket—enabling you to compare pricing
on a specific set of items among several vendors—and a Vendor Change Log.
Reports can be generated immediately or scheduled for later production.
With the Vendor Report Card solution in place, buyers can clearly rate vendor
performance, negotiate better terms and service, and show vendors what they
need to do to earn your business.
Vendor Report Card
More than 100 additional vendor data
fields have been added to the Eagle system
and mapped to Compass.
Key Features:
Flexible, concise vendor performance
reporting
XXVendor Report Card can be configured to show many
combinations of metrics in these categories:
Additional reports
XXVendor Market Basket lets you compare pricing across
○○ Sales, returns and defectives, gross margin
vendors for a specified group of products
XXVendor Change Log helps you audit results
○○ Inventory valuation, turns, GMROI, sell-through
○○ Order accuracy and fill rates
Requirements
○○ Freight and adjustments
Software Prerequisites:
○○ Program and representative information
XXCreate and store any number of reports with different
Epicor Eagle Release 24
Compass Analytics version 12.1.0.450 or later
filters as needed:
○○ Store open / close date
Purchase Order Lifecycle for Eagle
○○ Store number
○○ Department, class, fineline
Historical Inventory or Inventory Valuation Snapshot Data
○○ Vendor
Recommended: Advanced Receiving (without it, some freight
○○ Manufacturer
measurements will not display)
○○ As-of date
XXTrack progress using easy-to-format year-to-year and
YTD-to-YTD comparison
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