#  The business solution for Category Manager

##  How do you simplify your listing process, manage and analyze your assortments and make them more reliable?

 [ Discover eCOS® Assort ](https://www.externis.com/en/software/category-management)

###  Your objectives

Coordinate assortment planning more efficiently: manage the current period while preparing the next one

Make communication exchange more reliable and enforce assortment planning rules: your recommendations, your priority list, etc.

Provide information on ranking trends, negotiations, warehouse and in-store availability, etc.

Automate the key indicator tracking process: Business Plan management, 20/80 rule compliance, new products, etc.

Detailed reports of every stage of the business process: marketing, catman, KAM, supply chain, sales field

Reduce your time to market

###  Benefits provided by eCOS®

 [ eCOS® Assort, a software program to help you manage your assortments and optimize your product referencing management process. ](https://www.externis.com/en/software/category-management)

- Faster in-store activation for product ranges
- Reliable and automatic information sharing across all departments involved
- Track assortment management objectives, in real-time
- Time logging: agreements, sales plans, gap analysis, objective achievement, etc.
- Automatic report generation, including: theoretical ND/WD vs. actual
- Automatically feeds the sales force’s survey tool