Enterprise Intelligence

Quickly and cost-effectively drive better business outcomes and enterprise collaboration through a unified demand signal.

Retailers and consumer brands face common challenges with forecasting, planning, and pricing:

How can we get all of our planning and operational teams to collaborate more effectively to make better decisions?
How do we align pricing, sourcing, replenishment, and allocation decisions with inventory or supply chain constraints?
What strategies and tools can we implement to better predict and respond to sudden changes in consumer behavior or market conditions?
How can we drive better business outcomes without an analytics skill base?

How do we incorporate a new solution into our complex operating model to ensure adoption and sustainment?
How can we effectively plan for demand across different sales channels (in-store, online, mobile, wholesale) while accounting for their unique characteristics?
What’s the best approach to forecast demand for new products when we have no historical sales data?
How can we ensure our data is properly prepared for better demand planning outcomes?

The Solution: Enterprise Intelligence

Enterprise Intelligence is an innovative, results-as-a-service demand forecasting, planning, and price optimization solution that fosters cross-functional collaboration, leverages generative AI, and optimizes business outcomes.

Designed exclusively for retail and consumer goods companies

Delivers enterprise-wide, connected demand planning through a unified demand signal

Provides a stable and accurate demand signal across hierarchies and time

Optimizes business outcomes aligned with category intent

Built with Parker Avery’s proprietary hypercube technology

Uses generative AI to support the democratization of data and analysis across the organization

Uses advanced AI/ML modeling, and reinforcement learning

The Hypercube

The Enterprise Intelligence hypercube dynamically slices product, geography, and channel hierarchies, driving visibility and collaboration around a unified demand signal. This dynamic view across varying time horizons and granularity results in vastly improved and streamlined planning, even when your business users plan around different metrics.

By leveraging Enterprise Intelligence output and generative AI algorithms, our “Ask the Hypercube” capability allows business users to perform a myriad of analyses typically undertaken by data analysts through simple questions.

Drive better business outcomes with Enterprise Intelligence.

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Enterprise Intelligence: Differentiating Factors

Hypercube Splices Demand Across Hierarchies

Provides a shared and consistent understanding of demand, opportunity, risks, and constraints, as well as AI-driven insight into trends
Infuses intelligence into existing systems enabling congruent understanding and interaction
Facilitates the visibility and actionability of demand levers across all business functions
Supports dynamic slicing of the data to seamlessly view, plan, and collaborate within and across business functions in relevant KPIs
Enables ‘what-if’ scenarios to empower multiple viewpoints to be shared, discussed, and actioned

Quick Delivery of Improved Forecast

Generates a significantly improved demand forecast quicker than traditional systems

Optimal Data Quality

Advanced data hygiene processes filter data and improve data quality for superior results with less upfront time

Results-as-a-Service Model Improvements

Our Enterprise Intelligence RaaS service includes the ongoing monitoring of model health, model experimentation and improvement, and executive updates. These updates are performed by our analytics team, largely made up of mathematics, statistics, and engineering PhDs who keep the demand platform at the cutting edge of AI/ML technology.

Improvements are queued based on collaborative discussions with our clients.
Our analysts also concentrate their modeling improvement efforts based on the output from diagnostics reports.
Post-implementation, our team will create a set of diagnostic alerts and reports that will aid in monitoring the health of the demand signal.
Monthly executive updates provide insight into the system’s health, active/future model improvement efforts, and demand platform improvements.

Continuous Advanced AL and ML Enhancements

The solution is continuously enhanced using the most relevant AI and ML algorithms and through close partnerships with clients and academia

Sustainable Adoption for Business Results

Implementations typically incorporate business process design and organizational change for optimal results.

Parker Avery’s expertise in merchandising, planning, omnichannel, and supply chain holistically informs enhancements to our advanced analytics platform to ensure it continues to solve real business challenges. Where needed, our team brings leading business process expertise and change management tools to ensure the adoption and sustainment of new capabilities.

“The differentiation that Parker Avery brings to the table is the vast experience they’ve had developing forecasting capabilities over the last 20, 30 years.”

– VP of Analytics and Data Science, US Foods

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Enterprise Intelligence: Business Outcomes

Within the first few months of implementing Enterprise Intelligence to drive better planning, supply chain, and pricing decisions, Parker Avery clients have realized:

FORECAST ACCURACY IMPROVEMENT

REVENUE GROWTH

INVENTORY REDUCTION

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FILL RATE IMPROVEMENT

STOCK-OUT REDUCTION

These benefits continue to improve and are realized by enabling companies to:

Accurately predict future consumer demand

Detect and prioritize actions for near and long-term planning

Identify and respond proactively to trends and behaviors

Quickly react
to customer preferences across selling channels

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Enterprise Intelligence: Client Success Stories

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Annual Profit Improved Through AI-Driven Retail Warranty Price Optimization

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Enterprise Intelligence: Results-as-a-Service Offering

Comprehensive Managed Service

We manage the entire process including hosting, data cleansing, modeling, system monitoring and training.

Single Demand Signal

Projects an accurate, stable, and unified demand signal that may be propagated across planning, pricing, marketing, fulfillment, operations, and all functions dependent on demand.

Continuous Updates

Our turn-key solution includes continuous platform updates and demand signal monitoring and modeling to ensure your outputs are optimized with the latest AI and ML advances.

Full Integration

Can be integrated into your existing applications and the forecast translated into relevant KPIs. Outputs can be integrated into your planning systems or you may employ our user interface.

Minimized IT Spend

Enterprise Intelligence minimizes the involvement of IT resources as data can be ingested in any available system format.

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