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Get the right products, in the right quantities, at the right time

  • total POS visibility
  • proven benefits
  • customizable
  • bottomline
  • 104 weeks of historical daily POS data
  • Review total customer unit purchases and aggregate wholesale value
  • Analyze item performance for each of your active SKUs
  • Review item performance based on sales territories
  • Review item performance for any duration or date range
  • See up-to-date actual stock levels for each of your items
  • See up-to-date historical total stock level of your products for each store
  • See item level inventory at the distributor/wholesaler that you sell through

Get real-time insight to unlock
the power of demand based data.

Vendor-Link Cycling's web-based service captures daily
wholesale sales and inventory data directly from your
retailers' POS systems.

Studies show real-time visibility and collaboration with retailers — yield results

Reduced
Inventory
by 10-40%
Increased
sales
by approx 10%
Increased
Replenishment Cycles
by 12-30%
Improved
Service level
by 5-10%
Data from: AMR Research April 1, 2001; Janet Suleski: Beyond CPFR

Customize
to your needs

Filter data from individual stores
and groups, SKU item levels
and families, to date intervals
for desired reports that benefit
forecasting, planning and sales departments.
Unlimited use or users
Web-based
Fixed monthly-based pricing
No IT costs or investment

Tighten your supply chain, end-to-end

Better Forecasting
  • Readjust order planning to better
    match with real-time demand
  • Speed re-order cycle time
  • Lower in-transit and domestic inventory levels
Increase Sales
  • Avoid retail level stock-outs
  • Increase In-Stock Levels
  • Reduce lost sales
  • Improve retail service
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“Unless suppliers know your numbers,
they can't change or respond to your needs…”
— Beth Annon-Loverling, B&L Bike Shop, Davis CA
“If the industry as a whole knows what's selling -
we'll grow as an industry…”
—Lindsay McKenzie, 3 Ring Cycles, San Anselmo CA
“It is not often that one is offered a true “Win-Win” proposition, but as I see it Vendor-link is just that…”
— Jeff Selzer, Palo Alto Bicycles & NBDA Board , Palo Alto CA
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