A customer experience measurement approach is today the key factor on which retail organizations rely to gain precious insights, minimize the risk and improve profitability.
In a world where fast-change and short-term thinking dominates, what is the best way to anticipate trends and consumer buying patterns? How to manage optimal inventory levels and all related operations?
Predictive analytics provide retail firms with data that contain answers to industry-specific questions and uncover new business opportunities, forecasting store traffic and foreseeing customers behavior.
The following 4 steps are imperative to master Predictive Analytics and thereby drive business growth.
To achieve an integrated and harmonized forecasting, 3 are the factors to be taken into account:
Basic data: Time series of quantity to forecast
Hierarchy or grouping for generating harmonized forecasts, internal (prices, product attributes, etc.)
and external variables (marketing actions, promotions, etc…), calendar effects (holidays, etc.)
Forecasting strategy: Model mix with exception and anomalous data management.
Tools: Evaluation of the most suitable technologies for forecasting and predictive purposes
The ability to infer the causal impact of a market intervention, as well as the launch of a new product, the onset of an advertising campaign or promotion effectiveness, through the use of custom models and settings.
Discover and deploy local sensitivity to small changes in the pricing of products, according to the local characteristics of sales points: target consumer base, location, and size. This analysis takes into account the estimated price elasticity and promotional policy.
Customer segmentation may be more effective and informative if we distinguish between static or quasi-static variables and dynamic or behavioral variables.
First stage: slowly-changing or static attribute.
Understand the socio-demographic composition
Second stage: dynamic attributes.
Classify the behaviors by further segment, setting the final cluster with the prevailing and the full spectrum of behavior for each class (segment) defined on the basis of quasi-static and static attributes. The targeting will, therefore, be sensitive to socio-demographic, behavioral and cultural variables.
In an ever-evolving marketplace, enterprises have to extract critical knowledge from the high volume of data collected on a daily basis. Thanks to a deep understanding of Predictive Analytics, SDG consultants give retail firms the right tools and confidence to lead and make better decisions by using global insights.
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