DTS/Merch is an cloud based, automated, sales analytics and replenishment platform

DTS/Merch works well for for growers participating in pay-by-scan or vendor managed inventory programs and can be tailored to fit your needs. It also works for standard PO based programs.

DTS helps growers and suppliers selling to retailers solve the problem of handling and automating of retail sales data flows, reporting, analytics, store inventory management, merchandising and replenishment.

DTS / Merch offers a complete set of software and data reporting tools for retails sales analytics, vendor managed inventory, replenishment and merchandising team management including:

• Sales Reporting and Analytics
• Sell Through Performance and other retail inventory statistics
• Powerful reporting engine
• Vendor Managed Inventory and Pay by scan or Pay from scan programs
• In Store Data Collection and inventory updates
• Merchandising Tool for time tracking in stores
• Availability entry and upload
• Store Deliveries
• Store Dump/Shrink
• Replenishment reporting
• Replenishment Worksheets to help build store orders
• SKU and Store information for grouping and reporting
• Pricing Levels to keep track of retail, wholesale and cost dollars
• SKU grouping to group your product analysis the way you want
• Automatic integration with GrowerEDI to automated data flows to trading partners
• Automatic integration with GrowPoint to automate data transfer of key data such as availability, items, and deliveries and prices.
• Automated report generation and statistical key metrics summaries

Clients

Our clients are large and small growers and suppliers who manufacture, sell and manage a wide assortment of retail inventory including: annuals, perennials, tropicals, edibles, trees, shrubs, holiday plants, hard goods like firewood and seasonal decorative and live good items. Our solutions are customizable based on grower size, ensuring tailored support for both large and small-scale operations.

Created and designed for Growers and suppliers using the Vendor Managed Inventory model also known as Pay By Scan.

Data and Reports

DTS/Merch can work with any sales related data flows including growers selling to regional or larger retailers, especially the big box retailers such as Walmart, Home Depot, Tractor Supply, Kroger, Costco, Lowes and others.

Direct to Store provides many pre-defined retail reports and key retail statistics to show inventory, sell through, store/sku performance and many other data aspects of your program.

Replenishment Tools

The replenishment worksheet capability brings together many of the data elements needed to make the best decision for replenishment all in one place, automatically.

Data Automation

With a compatible EDI service such as GrowerEDI you can fully automate many of the transactions and reporting needs for your programs.

The DTS Notification feature bring fully automation business metrics and key statistics to you.

Merchandising Management

DTS helps you plan, track and collect your merchandisers hours and has extensive reporting for you merchandising needs.

DTS Key Features

Sales Reporting Tools

Our Direct to Store and GrowerEDI products coupled with our dedicated, experienced support team improve your data visibility and reporting, automate your data flows and provide a platform to help improve and streamline your replenishment efforts.

DTS/Merch offers a comprehensive set of tools for sales reporting. You can get as granular as you need to for your individual SKU/Store performance. The report engines allow highly configurable report builders.

• Reports based on units and $, Stores or SKU’s or both
• Quick/Easy sorting of columns and groupings before exporting to Excel and will export to Excel in the same exact format as formatted within the website
• All Sales reports export to Excel for easy printing and manipulating of data
• 30 + Store Inventory and Sell Thru reporting to minimize missed sales
• Ad-hoc date ranges
• Transaction Reporting
• Current On Hand Reports
• Yearly Comparison Reports
• Empty Rack Tracking
• Powerful Grouping features so that SKU’s can be groups and statistics can be aggregated at higher levels for better retail views of performance.Unlimited number of logins and a User defined access
• Define User as Territories, or Areas, to view dedicated areas of sales
• Displays real-time inventory

Sell Thru Performance

Sell through is extremely important for Pay by Scan growers. DTS supports a suite of reporting on your sell through.

With DTS sell through performance analysis reporting you can:

• Analyze and track store and SKU performance daily
• View overall sell thru based on by store, by sku OR YTD with custom date fields.
• Configure item detail by retailer
• Real time delivery data for in store inventory
• Create customize SKU groupings defined by User
• Make educated decisions in researching suggested order quantities

Data Notification Service

The DTS Notification Service which, based on your needs, will build and send to an email list you designate all of the key information metrics for your sales so you can ‘see’ what’s going on without spending hours running reports and building a story.

Most all of our clients opt for a daily report in season so as to track the most important metrics as quickly and easily as possible.

The result is that your staff will be free to focus on the improvement instead of building the story.

All this is done completely automatically and formatted so that you can see your key metrics at a glance on your mobile device by seeing your key metrics such as:

• Sales totals, comps, and margin by chain by multiple time periods
• SKU group sales, margin, comps, and comparison, by multiple time periods
• SKU Group prediction – last year next X weeks
• Top and bottom 10 stores based on week over week sales or YOY comp,
• Top and Bottom SKUs
• Top and bottom overall Store SKU sell through
• Many more….

In Store Data Collection

In store data collection enables your team to make real-time inventory adjustments to keep your inventory as accurate as possible and inform your replenishment activities as well.

• Shipment Notifications to your Merchandising team
• Scan your inventory with scanning device in real time for efficiency
• Auto calculate your shrink and credits
• Manage in store activity with multiple summary reports

Replenishment Support Tools

Effective replenishment is all about getting the right product in the right store at the right time. DTS/Merch provides tools that bring together all the key data you need to make the best choice for replenishment of your product.

Does your operation struggle with the effort for pay by scan replenishment, getting the right product in the store at the right time?

Ultimately your replenishment has to provide a best answer to “how many of that SKU to put in that store on the next shipment“.

Whether you have 35,000 data points or just 3 you still have to decide what to ship to where based on what you have available.

To help with that effort DTS provides:

• Multiple replenishment reporting options.
• Integrated Availability to see what you have available to ship
• Aggregates data from multiple sources to display the data to make good decisions
• Key store statistics juxtaposed with your stores and availability
• Configurable SOQ – Suggested Order Quantity for automated replenishment suggestions
• Flexible Replenishment worksheet views to allow particular stores/SKU to be worked on independently.
• Replenishment worksheet status so you can what you have not finished
• Replenishment orders export to allow you to import to your sales order fulfillment system for picking and shipping

Merchandising Tools

DTS provides several tools to track merchandising budget, time spent and reporting for your merchandising team using and Mobile based tools for instore as well as a suite of reports and analytics.

• Track Store counts, dumps transfers, credits, etc (Via Mobile device tracking)
• Time Log (completed time entries)
• Time Summary reports (can pull by weeks for payroll)
• Track Labor to Sales
• Time Budgets
• Ability to track projects within a time (etc. clock into watering, clock into indoor vs. outdoor), all can be user defined
• Rack Tracking
• Track store counts, dumps, transfers, credits, etc (Via mobile, tablet, laptop, and desktop)
• Text to Voice messaging system to blacking out messages to Users or Stores upon clocking in via the Mobile Device Tracking
• Expense Reporting for company wide use

Delivery Coordination Tools

Delivery coordination is essential to maximizing product freshness and resource utilization. DTS/Merch can integrate** with your back end systems to provide timely delivery notifications to your customers, merchandisers and your staff.

DTS Advantages

Efficiency

• Automated and all the key data in one place makes for more efficient staff effort for managing your retail programs.

Improved Profitability

• Increase your profitability by putting the best product, in the right amount, at the correct time on the retailers’ store shelves.

Better Decisions

• Make better replenishment decisions when you have the information you need easily accessible for the right people in your organization creating the highest sell-through of your products.

Responsive Support

• We have a responsive, caring and knowledgeable support team you can actually talk to.

Comprehensive Training

• Our onboarding specialists will work to train your staff on all aspects of the system operation you are using.
• These are schedule in online, video meetings to make the most of your employees time

Better Software Navigation

• Better navigation – The new Menu and Navigation system allows you to decide what menu options you use most and quickly add them to a Favorites Menu

DTS Additional Benefits

Flexibility For your users and operation

• Unlimited number of logins and a User defined access
• Define User as Territories, or Areas, to view dedicated areas of sale

Better Data Visibility

• Reporting allows better drill down into the specific store sku situations you need to review.
• All your crucial data and statistics are in one place.

Labor Reduction

• With data automation and automated report building you can reduce labor in managing inventory and replenishment activities

Better Results

• Better tools and visibility for you team can Improve sell through and reduce shrink

Automated Integrations

• Automated integration with your existing order or accounting systems
• Automated EDI integration solutions based on your needs

Competent Experienced Support

• Our team has helped a variety of growers with data and replenishment needs. Our Experienced, exceptional customer service is there to help you every step

System Requirements

• As a cloud application all you need is a standard web browser such as Firefox, Chrome, Edge.
• Standard email client such as Outlook, Gmail or similar.
• Excel or Excel compatible software to view / create / edit any Excel upload or download files.

Grower Friendly Pricing

• Software and data tools with this level of sophistication and automation can run grower hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.
• DTS is priced more reasonably creating a greater economic return on your investment.
• DTS is priced as a software subscription
• You pay based on the size/modules/configuration of your system a convenient, regular monthly (or quarterly, yearly etc.) fee.
• We do not charge large up front fees to get going with DTS.
• EDI Fees are charged separately.

Customer Reviews

DTS FAQs

DTS Direct To Store / Merch FAQs

Learn more about the Pay by Scan model arrangement between growers and big-box retailers as well as information on software capabilities needed for this model and key factors for success. Read the Pay by Scan Playbook here.

Take the Next step and Find Out More

To learn more about how DTS/Merch can help your vendor management inventory tasks or to schedule a demo contact us.

** Requires project based work to build necessary integrations to your back end system or data sources for deliveries.