Ahold USA and RSi Reinvent the Retailer Supplier Relationship with Game-Changing Vendor Collaboration Program

Ahold USA and RSi transform retailer data sharing into collaborative business processes

CARLISLE, Pennsylvania and MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, Feb. 23, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Ahold USA, Inc., parent company of leading supermarkets Giant Landover, Stop & Shop New England, Stop & Shop New York Metro, Giant Carlisle, and of online grocery Peapod, has partnered with Retail Solutions Inc. (RSi) to set a new standard of excellence for vendor collaboration programs by introducing shared business processes across the enterprise. Ahold USA has leveraged RSi's data platform and collaboration tools to better align Ahold USA business goals and daily priorities with its vendor partners. This has allowed Ahold USA to improve operational execution, realize new efficiencies and increase product availability. Furthermore, Ahold USA vendor partners, both warehouse and DSD, have recaptured incremental sales and achieved significant cost savings through Ahold USA's revolutionary in-store alerting program and advanced collaborative business analytics.

"With the customer's experience at the center of our success, we recognized the opportunity to create a truly collaborative program where vendors and our retail businesses work together to problem-solve, reach goals and measure the effectiveness of our efforts to create a superior shopping experience for their consumers," said Walt Lentz, SVP of Planning, Replenishment and Logistics at Ahold USA.

Ahold USA selected RSi as a preferred partner due to the structured nature of RSi's approach. This approach uses formal use cases to drive actionable insights through the richness of the data provided by Ahold USA. Ahold USA and its vendor partners are able to make more informed decisions in near-real time and collaborate on vital business needs with this new Vendor Collaboration Program. These areas of action include reduced distribution voids, improved on-shelf availability, faster speed to shelf for product introductions, reduced unsaleables and improved promotional execution. Ahold USA and RSi have taken their collaboration program to a new level by incorporating daily downstream data turned into powerful alerting and analytic capabilities so that vendors can better execute against a single, shared version of the truth. Ahold USA has set a new standard of excellence with over three years of focus and a dedicated staff invested in the program.