C&S Wholesale Grocers Selects DemandTec To Improve Vendor Collaboration On Trade Deals
San Carlos, CA - DemandTec, Inc. a leading provider of on-demand optimization solutions for retailers and consumer products manufacturers, recently announced that C&S Wholesale Grocers, the nation's second largest supermarket wholesaler, entered into an agreement to subscribe to DemandTec's Deal Management software service in order to help automate its vendor deal management process, enhance its relationships with suppliers, and improve service levels to the retailers it supplies.
C&S Wholesale Grocers previously used an internally developed application to collaborate with suppliers on trade deals, but the system required significant resources to operate and maintain and wasn't scalable to the extent the company needed. C&S will use DemandTec's Deal Management service to improve vender compliance on trade deals and reduce the administrative cost of processing supplier deal sheets.
Deal Management is one of the software services within the DemandTec End-to-End Promotion Management solution that enables retailers and wholesalers to manage the complex process of planning, optimizing, and executing promotions, including internal collaboration between departments and external collaboration with vendors.
"DemandTec was selected because of the company's expertise and experience in helping retailers and distributors manage promotional relationships and because many of our suppliers are already using the Deal Management service on the DemandTec TradePoint Network. We expect to see both operational and financial benefits from this implementation," said Tracy Moore, senior vice president of merchandising, supply chain and trade relations for C&S Wholesale Grocers.
"We anticipate that C&S Wholesale Grocers will see improved collaboration with their trading partners on promotions and the ability to better serve their retail customers. DemandTec is pleased that such an important wholesaler selected our solution and we are committed to meeting their current and future needs," said Dan Fishback, president and chief executive officer DemandTec.
The DemandTec TradePoint Network is the industry's only secure, Internet-based network of software services for retailers and their suppliers to transact, interact and collaborate on promotions and other merchandising and marketing activities.
SOURCE: DemandTec, Inc.