Roundy’s selects Market6 for vendor portal
Deerfield, Ill. - Roundy’s Inc. has selected Market6’s retailer/supplier collaboration software platform, Market6 Foundation, to deliver a new vendor collaboration portal for Roundy’s enterprise-wide merchandising team and consumer goods supplier community. Roundy’s needed a simpler, more efficient way to exchange information and work with its suppliers on a daily basis around shared high-value business processes, such as executing promotions, managing inventory, driving new item introductions, and reducing out-of-stock items.
“By infusing our daily supplier interactions with better information, and by making our business relationships more transparent and accountable, we can make our stores more competitive and compelling to shoppers while managing our cost structure more efficiently,” said Bob Mariano, CEO of Roundy’s. “Using the Marke6 Foundation solution, our merchants and supplier teams are now able to work together around the same set of daily store-level operational data, analytics, and performance measures to analyze business results, identify problems, and implement solutions, quickly enough to impact the business with measurably better results.”
To drive the business process improvement aspect of this project, Roundy’s selected The Partnering Group, a Market6 partner and leading strategy and management consulting firm serving every retail and consumer goods sector. The Partnering Group will provide consulting expertise and training, and change management leadership and skills, to ensure a maximum positive impact under the new collaboration processes and solution for Roundy’s and its suppliers.
The Partnering Group (TPG), a strategic Market6 partner, will design and imbed the Roundy’s-supplier collaborative planning processes and policies. TPG is a global leader in retail strategy and best practices with twenty-three retail publications translated in dozens of languages. The Partnering Group will provide process expertise, training and change management leadership to produce an immediate and sustainable for Roundy’s and its suppliers.