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Total volume across the group
What you actually buy from a supplier across every store and period, so the negotiation starts from your real weight.
Supplier negotiations are won on evidence, but the numbers are usually scattered across stores and systems, so the case gets built on estimates and memory. This workflow pulls your real purchasing and sales history together, so you sit down with the figures already in hand.
A buying manager negotiates hardest when the numbers are on the table: what the group actually buys, how a supplier's lines actually sell, where volume has grown. In practice those numbers live across stores and periods, and assembling them by hand before a meeting is slow enough that the case ends up resting on estimates.
The supplier arrives with their version of the data. Without yours, the conversation runs on their terms.
Retail+ holds the purchasing and sales history across every store in one place. The case becomes something you assemble in minutes, from the tills, not something you approximate.
What you actually buy from a supplier across every store and period, so the negotiation starts from your real weight.
Which of the supplier's lines earn their place and which do not, so the conversation is specific to products, not vague.
Growth or decline over time, so a request for better terms is backed by where the business is heading.
In Retail+, pull the supplier's lines across every store, live from the tills, so total volume and sales sit in one place.
Compare periods and stores to see how the range is trending and where the volume actually sits, so the case reflects the real relationship.
Put the negotiation questions to Hank in plain English and the answer comes straight back, drawn from your own POS.
Illustrative of what you can ask once your data is connected.
Take the consolidated figures into the negotiation, and raise the follow-ups, terms to revisit and lines to review, as tasks with owners and due times.
After the terms are agreed, track the supplier's lines to confirm the deal is delivering.
Cross-store purchasing and sales for any supplier, on demand.
A specific read on how the supplier's range performs.
Direction over time, not just a snapshot.
Negotiation follow-ups raised with owners and completion tracking.
The case is assembled by hand from scattered store data, so it leans on estimates and arrives thin. The supplier brings the only complete numbers in the room.
The full purchasing and sales picture is in hand before the meeting, from the tills. The negotiation runs on your evidence.
The tapestry® Economic Impact Report models a conservative A$27.5k of net value per store per year, a central estimate of A$85.7k, and up to A$181.4k at the top of the modelled range, on a A$30m store. Modelled scenario only. Individual results may vary.
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