We help our clients solve their most important challenges through strategy development, capabilities assessments, system selection, business process design, change management, solution implementation, and advanced analytics.
Our team works hand-in-hand with your team, incorporates leading practices and insights, and tailors our proven consulting approaches and tools to solve your business challenges.
Client Case Studies by Functional Areas
Client Case Studies by Parker Avery Services
Core Merchandising
New Strategy for Master Data Supports Core Merchandising Transformation
Employing a proven, methodical approach to successfully extract, validate, harmonize, and load master data for a transformational core merchandising implementation.
Building Organizational Agility with a New Global Core Merchandising Solution
Working closely with this global retailer, Parker Avery assessed alternatives and selected a new core merchandising solution that will improve organizational agility, lower costs, and drive margins.
Merchandise Financial Planning
Outdoor Retailer Drives Omnichannel Transformation with New Planning Solution
Comprehensive MFP system implementation to optimize retail sales planning and inventory cost planning and enable a holistic, global view of the company.
Specialty Retailer Expects Strong Margin Growth with New Planning System
Designing the future process and evaluating a merchandising solution to enable strategic planning and enhance visibility into inventory across multiple channels.
Demand Planning
Global Kitchenware Retailer Empowered with Better Forecasting and Replenishment Solutions
Thorough assessment and selection of a demand forecasting and replenishment solution set that will demonstrably improve forecasting, planning, and reporting capabilities, while providing better support and efficiencies to customer-facing roles.
Major Food Distributor Boosts Forecasting Accuracy for Superior Results
Improving demand forecasting accuracy by 11 points in just 90 days through the implementation of Parker Avery’s open-source advanced analytics demand platform.
Assortment and Item Planning
Home Decor Retailer Captures Better Assortment Insights with New System
Providing comprehensive retail industry expertise and implementation guidance to select and deploy strategic assortment planning software with the objective of driving sales and margins.
Retailer’s New Assortment and Item Planning Solution Improves Visibility
APIP solution implementation to deliver desired future-state capabilities, resulting in improved business efficiencies and better overall visibility into the planning processes.
Retail Pricing
Grocer Expects Massive ROI from Its Successful Price Optimization Implementation
Successful price optimization system implementation driven by industry best practices and strong, structured project leadership, resulting in significant financial benefits and return on investment.
New Price Optimization Process and System to Improve Retailer’s Margins
Defining future price optimization processes and guiding the pricing system selection with the objectives of improving margin, increasing efficiencies, and enhancing customer satisfaction in a multi-channel environment.
Omnichannel and Store Operations
Designing a New Order Management System to Double Sales
Parker Avery designed a new order management system and outlined an implementation strategy to enable efficiencies while supporting sales growth and strategic business objectives for this traditionally catalog-only retailer.
Boosting GMROI with a Successful Omnichannel Fulfillment Solution
This specialty retailer improved GMROI through on-demand visibility to existing inventory and enabling store order fulfillment across multiple banners, over 900 stores, and distribution centers.
Product Development and Sourcing
New PLM System Selected for Industry-Leading Product Development Processes
This client selected a new PLM system to solve product development and sourcing issues, enable collaboration, improve data integrity, and reduce costs.
Retailer Improves Efficiency and Visibility with New Sourcing Application​
Selecting and implementing a new sourcing application to improve efficiency and visibility through better integration with existing systems, more productive business processes, and improved data.
Supply Chain
Retailer Selects Science-Driven Forecasting and Replenishment System ​​
A thorough evaluation of leading solution providers enables the client to evolve their business with the addition of science-based demand forecasting and replenishment capabilities, driving much more efficient inventory use.
New Forecasting and Replenishment Solution to Optimize Bottom Line
Defining the strategy and developing new processes to support a client’s new forecasting and replenishment solution, bolstered by advanced analytics capabilities.
Capabilities Assessment and Roadmap Development
Merchandising Capability Roadmap Paves the Way for Strategic Growth
Deep dive evaluation of merchandising and related processes, systems, and organization to develop a multi-year transformation roadmap, commencing with quick wins and change management to bolster results.
Unleashing Category Management Potential to Maximize Profits and Growth
Development of a prioritized and actionable roadmap to achieve a more consistent and efficient future state and to support strategic objectives.
System Selection
Global Footwear Retailer Selects New Order Management System
Working closely with this global retailer on a tight schedule, Parker Avery assessed alternatives to help select a new OMS that met its comprehensive business challenges and will drive competitive omnichannel capabilities.
Order Management System Selection and Strategy to Unlock Growth
Assessment and selection of an order management system to enable future growth, with definition of the supporting business case and implementation strategy.
Business Process and Transformation
Retailer’s Merchandising Transformation Results in Impressive Improvements​
Parker Avery led the redesign and training for this popular outdoor retailer’s merchandising and planning organization based on cutting-edge merchandising practices.
Designing a New Order Management System to Double Sales
Parker Avery designed a new order management system and outlined an implementation strategy to enable efficiencies while supporting sales growth and strategic business objectives for this traditionally catalog-only retailer.
Organizational Change Management and Training
Empowering Brand Excellence With a New Merchandising Academy​​
Parker Avery partnered with an internal, global, cross-functional client team to develop a modern, interactive new merchandising academy.
Wine Giant Benefits from New Organizational Change Expertise and Focus
Developing a change management roadmap, toolkit, and internal team to support the transformation of a global wine and spirits industry leader.
Advanced Analytics
New Promotional Offer Optimization Solution Accelerates Results
This tire manufacturer projects impressive results from deploying Enterprise Intelligence to drive its promotional offer optimization solution.
Enterprise-wide Planning Solution Drives Global Retailer’s Agility​
Driving retail enterprise agility and collaboration across functional areas through the implementation of an accurate, stable, and unified demand signal.
Systems Implementation
Wholesaler Sees Success With System Upgrades and New Acquisition Integrations
This wholesaler successfully integrated two newly acquired brands with upgrades to modern systems and unified business processes across the enterprise.
Strong Profit Results from International Grocer’s Price Optimization Solution
Achieving revenue and profit improvements with sustainable adoption of new business capabilities through the successful implementation of a global, advanced regular price optimization system.