Retailers have been quick to leverage fast changing trends. With consumers’ buying power at an all-time low and business credit scarcity, it’s even more important than ever to improve operational efficiency.

Quality Deployment brings decades of experiences working with major retailers, and their trading partners, to bring velocity into the business process. Within a few weeks, we can identify improvements in your organization that will deliver bottom-line results…typically within 30-90

Corporate Brand Extension "Made Easy and Faster" - Corporate brand teams are scrambling to speed up their processes to get private label and store branded items to shelf. Merchandising teams are also scrambling to get local and seasonal products to shelf. With a cash justifiable investment you can capture speed-to-shelf advantage to drive revenue and see improvements in three-month increments. Quality Deployment can cut cost and add velocity in the product line extension process. With our expertise we can use your current technology to make it easier to:

• Efficiently Add and purchase from new suppliers
• Speed product pricing and promotional launches to customers
• Obtain accurate order entry, fulfillment, lot tracking and inventory
• Lower transaction costs associated with product specifications, line, SKU, and packaging changes
• Act on early warning indicators about service level compliance

GDSN Electronic Collaboration “Retailer of Choice” - The business benefits of collaborating electronically are well known. The technology has evolved to make collaboration easier than ever before. However, working with wholesalers, distributors, brokers, and manufacturers involves more than agreeing on standards and implementing B2B protocols. The real challenges come in building relationships, understanding and optimizing your current operations and related data management issues, prioritizing initiatives based on business value, and looking for the most effective implementation approach, which delivers the most value for the least investment. With our expertise we leverage your current technology to provide you benefits in the following focus areas:

• Reduction in merchandising time, dealing with item data issues
• Reduction in inbound, warehousing, and inventory cost
• Reduction in out-of-stocks
• Increased speed to market for new items

Vendor rebate and credit management “Retailer Cash” - Retailers are providing promotional campaigns across stores and channels to keep customers shopping in their stores, but the complex issues around vendor rebate and credit management with store items with manufacturer and distributors is plagued with manual intensive process, complex return procedures, and long transaction cycle which cause retailers “cash shrinkage”. Failure to follow manufacturer and distributor procedures can result in denial of partial or full credit as well as exposure to regulatory violations for retailers. Quality Deployment’s solution provides rapid ROI for the retailer across a wide range of areas. We can help retailers by quickly identifying potential claims, thoroughly reviewing return history, and helping establish a process leveraging you existing technology to enhance the on-going management of future return handling. Our Pharmaceutical Returns Recovery solution permits Retailers to:

• Significantly improve recovery percentages from drug manufacturers
• Better navigate the pharmaceutical reverse logistics process to increase cash flow
• Leverage best practice-based expertise for business process re-design increasing cash flow
• Establish a process-centric returns auditing function to handle ongoing recovery and prevent, detect, and remediate future claims

Quality Deployment’s retail team has been active in working for and with key retailers for many years. Our team members were leaders in the former UCCnet a subsidiary of GS1, and have worked with most of the major key retailers in the US. Our industry depth, technology breadth and implementation experience make us ideal for companies that want results fast.