BrokerScan for Manufacturers

Make Better Decisions With Better Information...And Reduce Your Costs!

See Distribution Gains Sooner and More Accurately Increase the Sales Performance of your Regional Managers, by Reducing the Time They Spend Conducting Audits Reduce the Cost of Conducting Your Audits

The Marketplace is Growing More and More Competitive. Rapid reporting on distribution gains or losses is increasingly crucial to success. Smart companies can no longer expect to get ahead while relying on distribution tracking methods that have not changed much in 15 years.

Syndicated Data is Incomplete. While syndicated data solutions such as A.C. Neilsen, IRI and SPINS provide part of the picture, these services are often incomplete because they overlook crucial retailers who do not report their data. Syndicated data is also incredibly expensive and out of reach for many manufacturers.

Paper Audits are Inadequate for Today’s Environment

Nobody like audits.

Distribution audits are expensive to conduct and monitor effectively Often the final results are never really utilized because the end product is spread over many pages and the information is difficult analyze Audits Divert the time of Highly Paid Regional Managers from sales to audit tracking Most audits need expensive “reprossessing” by the broker, the regional manager, and even again at a national level to develop the "big picture" summary of distribution gains

The Manufacturer Suffers in the End.

Decisions are made with faulty or incomplete data Productivity of key sales personnel is spent on non-sales activityHurried reporting means data may be inaccurateKey metrics such as distribution gains or losses are not easily reportable

BrokerScan Will Solve Many of Your Audit Needs by Empowering Your Sales Force With the Ability to Collect Data Electronically:

Scan

The BrokerScan solution allows your company to quickly scan and collect item information including: Set Size Shelf Price Number of Facings Shelf Placement Information About Competitor SKUs Additonal User Defined Fields

Sync

The PDA is then securely synched with the BrokerScan server using any available wireless Internet connection. Syncs can be done at Hotels, Libraries, even Coffee Shops!

Report

Upon sync, distibution data can instantly be accessed via any desktop computer using the library of pre-built distribution reports.

Actual Store by Store Distribution as Compared to Your Master List Store Distribution Comparison to Retailer Authorized List Distribution Progression (are you gaining or losing distribution since the last audit) Dates of Last audit or Stores Missing Recent Audits Price Comparision Reports (minimum and maximum prices) Competitive Brand Reports And Many More

Data Security You Can Trust

Your data is protected and is secured by SSL connections and password protection. Daily server backups are automatic so your data is always centralized and safe.

You’ll be able to produce reports on demand that would currently take days or weeks to compile. Because BrokerScan is dynamic, your distribution changes can be logged, and reports instantly updated to reflect the changes.

Benefit Overview

BrokerScan will automate key areas of reporting. This cost reduction for all parties involved mean better data and more time for sales related activities. Dynamic storage of data means robust reporting can be compiled and compared across date periods to show distribution gains and losses. Because data is centralized and standardized, multiple departments can access reports in order to compile “the big picture” Reports from one territory or all territories can be compiled and summarized in minutes into a single master report.An extensive library of pre-built reports means that the manufacturer can literally be producing their first report in minutes.

Deep licensing fee discounts are available to manufacturers. This pricing model means that both the manufacturer and the broker partner can implement BrokerScan for a fraction of what audits costs to do today.