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Dunham & Smith Category Management Department
Dunham & Smith's Category and Space Management goal is to build trust and integrity within the military resale community so patron, retailer, and manufacturer all benefit.
Category and Space Management is a foundation to an effective business plan. We work with our clients and customers to assess category trends, identify opportunities, establish objectives and produce a plan to meet our client and customer business goals.
Dunham & Smith Business Managers utilize syndicated data from many sources to include, Nielsen, IRI, Empower IT and Exchange RPOS. This information is analyzed to discover category trends and opportunities.
D&S has a proven record of producing effective plan-o-grams for over 70 categories across the dry, chill, and frozen categories. In addition to the plan-o-grams produced during category reviews and new items launches, Dunham & Smith’s Space Management department manages over a thousand store specific Plan-o-grams for our Exchanges Service partners. There are many keys to being a preferred partner, the Category and Space Management process is an important element where we add value.
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Our Dunham & Smith Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) program is a comprehensive replenishment approach toward insuring product availability at the warehouse level. Since 1993, we have developed and evolved our expertise, relationships, and technology to effectively perform inventory management in any environment. We are one of the military retailers’ largest VMI vendors in managing inventory through 17 worldwide Exchange distribution centers. By leveraging our clients’ production and shipping processes, we continually surpass the retailers’ Return On Inventory Investment objectives and have been identified as the standard in inventory management within the Exchange markets. Companies can establish a VMI partnership with the Exchange retailers, our VMI reputation is based on creating distinct competitive advantages for our clients associated with effective inventory management, economic order quantities, promotional production strategies, shipping efficiencies, and extensive communication. Please contact us to discuss and develop a VMI program that is tailored to your specific needs and requirements.
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