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Beating inflation: How Category Management and Advanced Analytics can help

With so much uncertainty in the global economy, it’s essential for companies to understand inflation and its implications, as well as the tools available to help them manage their category portfolios.

Asset management, Consumer products, Retail & e-commerce, Consultancy

Making a difference with analytics: LTPlabs’ impactful initiatives

Data analytics provides powerful tools to identify areas for improvement, promote social responsibility, and ensure good governance practices.

Retail markdown strategy: clear inventory while optimizing price

Using Machine Learning to improve markdown strategies for end-of-life products.

Sales & portfolio management, Marketing & Customer Analytics, Operations strategy & planning, Retail & e-commerce, Consultancy

Excelling in store operations: shop as a complement to online

Fulfilling customer expectations requires an effective store operation, capable of replenishing items across offline and online channels, while frequently revising prices and delivering a high-quality service.

Marketing & Customer Analytics, Operations strategy & planning, Retail & e-commerce,

Tech and data to rescue omnichannel store operations

By infusing technology in traditional stores and gathering insights from the acquired data, it is possible to improve the experience of offline and online customers.

Operations strategy & planning, Marketing & Customer Analytics, Workforce planning, Retail & e-commerce, Consultancy

The impact of failure in online retail

How failures in online grocery retail have a negative impact beyond the direct lost sales.

Marketing & Customer Analytics, Operations strategy & planning, Retail & e-commerce,

The future of retail demands accelerated analytics

By applying data-driven state-of-the-art techniques to augment or automate decision-making we can uncover and address the current retail business challenges.

Marketing & Customer Analytics, Supply chain design & optimization, Operations strategy & planning, Retail & e-commerce,

How to ensure and maximize the organizational impact of an analytical model?

Different strategies may be capitalized on to maximize the chance that the analytical model will return the expected results.

Consultancy, Leveraging analytics

Does speed hinder quality and customization? The case for digital delivery

How data science and tech teams work hand in hand in a customized solution for digital delivery.

The big supply crunch

Moving products around have become increasingly expensive, and the margin for supply chain and inventory management errors has fallen to near zero.

Digital twin modelling, Demand & inventory planning, Supply chain design & optimization, Operations strategy & planning, Retail & e-commerce, Transport & logistics, Consumer products, Consultancy

Delivering a stellar service level with optimized inventory management strategies: a data-driven approach

A data-driven approach is the way to optimize inventory policies, quantities, and order schedules while minimizing stocks and maximizing sales.

Demand & inventory planning, Consumer products, Process industries & manufacturing, Retail & e-commerce, Consultancy

Advantages of using digital twins in operations management

Digital twin is all about business agility and unlock powerful capabilities. Here are some benefits of a digital twin strategy.

Operations strategy & planning, Digital twin modelling, Retail & e-commerce, Transport & logistics, Consumer products, Process industries & manufacturing, Consultancy, Leveraging analytics

On launching new products. How to estimate the potential impact of innovation?

To fuel efficient data-driven innovation processes, estimating the potential impact of new products is critical for strategic decisions.

Sales & portfolio management, Demand & inventory planning, Operations strategy & planning, Marketing & Customer Analytics, Consumer products, Consultancy, Leveraging analytics

Five reasons why targeted marketing will help improve your brand’s efficiency

Analytics capabilities help leveraging the power of data and improve your business brand efficiency.

Marketing & Customer Analytics, Consumer products, Retail & e-commerce, Telecommunications, Consultancy, Leveraging analytics

Five key reasons why you need to optimize your supply chain

Supply chain optimization is no longer just about cutting costs.

Supply chain design & optimization, Retail & e-commerce, Transport & logistics, Consumer products, Process industries & manufacturing,

OneLabs – Collaboration between the supply chain

A new collaboration model mediated by external facilitators: LTPlabs and GS! Portugal.

Partnerships, Retail & e-commerce, Consumer products, Transport & logistics, Process industries & manufacturing,

Creating training opportunities within your organization

Training will improve employees’ performance, but also organizations’ value proposition and market competitiveness.

Training & support

Find hidden value opportunities with data mining

Rather than a gentle wave, data mining is more of a relentless tide of concepts seemingly unwelcoming for beginners. 

Leveraging analytics

Five reasons why you should create a customer centric strategy

Closer contact with customers allows you to understand their business and the associated necessities they might not even be aware of.

Marketing & Customer Analytics, Retail & e-commerce, Telecommunications, Consultancy, Leveraging analytics

Machine Learning to anticipate football results

We predicted the most likely champion if leagues had not been interrupted

Leveraging analytics

Five reasons why you should learn analytics

The buzz around analytics and the proliferation of free e-learning came together in a perfect setting whether if you want to start or deepen your knowledge in analytics.

Leveraging analytics

Five reasons why prescriptive analytics transforms business

Despite the challenge of transforming insights and foresights into actionable smart and granular recommendations, the value derived from optimization is enormous.

Leveraging analytics

Market modelling in the pandemic theater

“All plans fail.” This commonplace has never been truer than today. This crisis, which already is estimated to be far worse than the 2009.

Demand & inventory planning, Retail & e-commerce, Consultancy

Moving beyond empirical people planning practices

An analytical approach can place in store managers’ hands the tool they need to make better decisions.

Workforce planning, Retail & e-commerce, Consultancy

How to lead e-commerce through the crisis?

COVID-19 pandemic is dramatically changing consumer behaviors worldwide.

Demand & inventory planning, Retail & e-commerce, Consultancy

Asset Management: From a tiresome chore to a strategic lever

Years of operation have generated a substantial amount of information ready to be analyzed and used to optimize the operation.

Asset management, Retail & e-commerce, Consumer products, Transport & logistics, Process industries & manufacturing, Consultancy

Five key reasons why you should use Machine Learning

Do not let preconceptions of unyielding complexity make you an advocate against kicking your business into a new gear.

Digital twin modelling, Energy & utilities, Telecommunications, Transport & logistics, Consumer products, Process industries & manufacturing, Retail & e-commerce, Consultancy, Leveraging analytics

Five reasons why business analytics is the key to success

Five benefits that business analytics yields

Leveraging analytics

Analytics as a lever for Supply Chain performance

Guidelines for successful supply chain analytics projects

Supply chain design & optimization, Retail & e-commerce, Consultancy

How supply chain network design can boost your business

How can companies deal with challenges and design a profitable network?

Supply chain design & optimization, Retail & e-commerce, Consultancy

Why does Big Data need Thick Data?

Big & Thick Data as a (tough) approach to transformational projects.

Digital twin modelling, Marketing & Customer Analytics, Telecommunications, Consultancy

Value of Service, a new enabler to coordinate Marketing and Operations

The combination of the increasing relevance of the online channel and the power of advanced analytics has brought new opportunities for COOs (Chief Operating Officers) to position their departments as value centers.

Operations strategy & planning, Retail & e-commerce, Consultancy

Cannabis Legalization Likelihood Index developed by LTPlabs

The algorithm identifies which countries are more likely to legalize cannabis for adult and for recreational use, according to several drivers.

Are your customers driving your promotional portfolio?

Having the ability to plan, control, and evaluate mass and customer-specific promotional activities is the only way to ensure marketing investments have sufficient returns.

Marketing & Customer Analytics, Retail & e-commerce, Consultancy

Investing in warehouse change: Is it a gamble?

Questions to consider to make accurate decisions when implementing changes.

Operations strategy & planning, Retail & e-commerce, Consumer products, Consultancy