Category: Retail Space Management

ERP and its different components in a colorful wheel

Is Your ERP System Doing Enough?

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How confident are you in your current data gathering methods? Is it taking longer for your team to interpret your data because you have tricky graphs, charts and projections? When was the last time you considered replacing your enterprise resource…

Is DIY the Solution to the On-Premise Wine Problem?

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I recently saw some great insights from my old colleague, Charles Gill from Winemetrics, regarding a downward trend in wine in the on-premise.  Craft beer and cocktails are clearly hot categories for consumers, but sales execution…
Input and Output in Bright red letters(all caps)

3 Tactics to Boost Your BI Production

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No business owner wants to be at the mercy of their business intelligence technology. While many BI applications can serve your business for a reasonable amount of time, this isn’t the case with most solutions. As you may already know, the…
Sticky notes with different resolutions that you can do

Email: The Best Trade Marketing Tool You Didn’t Know You Had

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Being the first full week of 2015, it is hard not to think about resolutions. As a software developer and provider, one of mine is to help our customers get more value from their investment in our solution. As a sales professional…

Change Management: Ever a Struggle

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Like many of us, I attend a lot of conferences. At one of them I moderate an annual CIO roundtable full of bright folks that get together and share ideas and experiences. As part of our regular practice, we collect topics from…

Why Tech-Savvy Suppliers And Distributors Have An Advantage

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The technology available in the Beverage Sales market today has created two camps that are both competing for the same sales and customers. Some companies stick to old formulas, often implemented several decades ago, and rely on…

How to “Go Deep” and Steal Market Share

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According to the National Restaurant Association and the U.S. Census Bureau, this summer saw Eating and Drinking Place Sales in the U.S. , an indicator of how much consumers are spending in the on-premise, grow to its highest point on record.…
Photo of Jerry Maguire(Tom Cruise)

What Happens in GreatVines Stays in GreatVines

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“The key to this business is personal relationships” — Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) quoting famous (but fictional) sports agent Dicky Fox We live and work in a relationship-driven business. The key drivers are not merely…
Aptean EDGE 2014 Booth with accompanying infographic(computer) and wine bottle(seperate images)

Aptean BI – Business Intelligence Review

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Aptean announced at its Edge conference a corporate BI platform in QlikView. One size will fit all. Pre-integrated dashboards ready to go; you could change them but then that is your responsibility. These were the messages regarding Aptean…