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  We are proud to have Ann Dozier as one of our board members. In her day-to-day role as the Chief Information Officer at Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits, North America’s largest wine and spirit distributor with over 21,500 employees, Ann is leadi[...]

We’ll cover in this post a few of the key reasons why DSD solutions are crucial and how the Empower DSDTM suite takes the hassle and pain out of DSD, so you can focus on what matters—your customers! iControl has built our business by supporting some [...]

Every retailer has a set of KPIs they focus on every week. Often these KPIs summarize thousands if not millions of data points that are occurring across thousands of stores. Stakeholders at numerous different levels of an organization need them to as[...]

We have all heard the saying “Garbage In – Garbage Out”, for some of us maybe a frustratingly number of times. Information Technology has developed great solutions to automate all sorts of activity but in most cases the solutions require that the sou[...]

Direct store delivery has a deep-rooted history in retail. DSD really started taking shape and being widely used in the 1990’s. The idea that the Suppliers would be providing a service where they would take on the tasks associated with in-Store inven[...]

Interview bySarah Pekala of BevSpot BevSpot Industry Profiles offer a quick glimpse into the life and insight of various food, beverage and direct store delivery industry leaders. This summer, BevSpot Industry Profiles TJ Zlotnitsky who is the Presid[...]

Data collaboration has traditionally been a challenge for many retailers and suppliers due, in large part, to technological limitations of either partner to gather that data and share it in a consistent and timely manner. However, advancements in sup[...]

Both Retail analytics and DSD software have come a long way in the last few years. If you wanted to see what your customers thought about your store or why they come there, you would need to ask them directly by conducting some form of market researc[...]