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Category Management: simulate, manage, and control your assortments in a single collaborative tool

Your daily challenges

Build coherent
and profitable assortments tailored to local expectations
Optimize actual numeric and weighted distribution
by monitoring commercial execution
Align headquarters and field teams
around a clear, measurable strategy
Centralize your data to collaborate better,
act faster, and convince your partners

    Take back control of your assortments, listings, and
    data with eCOS® ASSORT

    As a category manager, you are the conductor of the product strategy at the point of sale. Balancing performance analysis, supplier negotiations, promotional planning, and coordination with the field, your role is both strategic and cross-functional.

    eCOS® helps you manage your activity with precision and agility by connecting your data, scenarios, and teams.

    ASSORT

    Product assortment
    management

    🎯 Category management
    Centralization and product information sharing
    Informations collection at the point of sale
    Negociation of the assortment
    Referencing SKUS and notifying the sales force accordingly
    REPORTING and PERFORMANCE
    management

    How we approach Category Management

     eCOS® Assort - Category Management
    Collaborative, centralized category management powered by eCOS® ASSORT

    Get a quick overview of your key indicators: volumes, revenue, numeric distribution, weighted distribution, negotiated and actual deals… Track your performance by retail banner, channel, region or category.

    Data-driven assortment management

    Create, test, and deploy your product assortments based on defined business objectives:

    • Multi-banner simulation
    • Projection in volume, value, numeric and weighted distribution
    • Scenario comparison
    • Automatic optimization recommendations
     eCOS® Assort - Connected listings

    Connected listings management, grounded in real-world field data

    From the enriched item database to field data, everything is aligned:

    • Tracking of listing agreements
    • Direct availability to the sales force
    • Monitoring of activation (actual numeric and weighted distribution)

    Seamless integration with your existing tools

    Interoperable with your ERP, PIM, CRM, and BI systems, eCOS® works with always up-to-date data.

    Concrete benefits

    -98%
    Excel files
    -80%
    emails exchanged
    +80%
    time saved
    -12%
    stockouts reduced
     eCOS® Assort - Collaboration

    What makes eCOS® ASSORT the best fit for your Category Management strategy?

    Intelligent and shared data utilization
    A tool designed with category managers
    Collaborative approach: marketing, sales force, purchasing, logistics...
    100% SaaS, interoperable

    Marine Joncour, Retail Development Manager at BEL
    « Thanks to eCOS® Assort, I’ve saved 80% of the time spent on data processing, which I now dedicate to client relationships.  »
    Whiskies du Monde
    Marine Joncour,
    Retail Development Manager at BEL
    « Thanks to eCOS® Assort, I’ve saved 80% of the time spent on data processing, which I now dedicate to client relationships. »
    Marine Joncour, Retail Development Manager at BEL
    Marine Joncour,
    Retail Development Manager at BEL
    Valois & Cie
    Ready to optimize your eCOS® suite?
    Contact us today to discuss your project and discover how our tailor-made solutions can transform your tools.
    Externis Group

    Externis is the publisher of eCOS®, a SaaS suite specifically designed for sales teams and category managers working with brands and retailers across the retail sector (supermarkets, hospitality, pharmacies, etc.).

    With nearly 25 years of industry expertise, this suite combines three innovative, pioneering software solutions, developed using the latest technologies.

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