SAS Retail & CPG Cloud Analytics Quickstart

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2020: Announcement of a packet of cloud solutions of Retail & CPG Cloud Analytics Quickstart

On August 25, 2020 the company SAS provided a portfolio of cloud solutions for retail and suppliers of CPG (consumer packaged goods, with engl.- mass sales items), available in cloud the environment Microsoft Azure. The services entering it are intended for planning of supply chains and optimization of warehouse stocks taking into account consumer demand. Access to services is provided free of charge for 90 days.

In addition to the solution for analytical selection of goods substitutes, enter a packet of Retail & CPG Cloud Analytics Quickstart SAS Viya, SAS Visual Forecasting SAS Intelligent Planning Suite, SAS Intelligent Decisioning and Data Mining SAS Visual and Machine Learning.

The companies which already use solutions of SAS will be able without risk for themselves to experiment with SAS Intelligent Planning Suite in a cloud environment and to add the available licenses of SAS. To retailers who did not work with SAS earlier this package offer for planning and demand forecasting will allow to test different analytical tools during crisis and after the trial period to license only that are really necessary.

The packet of Retail & CPG Cloud Analytics Quickstart automates data access that allows to receive them from the external sources of information containing the different data connected with COVID-19 pandemic. This information arriving in real time in combination with sales informations and to trade inventories, allows to recustomize forecast models for fast correction of trade inventories.

"Use of analytical solutions significantly changes case, so far as concerns reaction and recovery of the company after a pandemic and the economic instability caused by it, – Dan Mitchell, the director of global business practice of Retail & CPG, SAS says. – If the solutions SAS Analytics in the Microsoft Azure cloud environment to use strategically, they allow the company to foresee changes in demand pattern and to quickly adjust plans so clients receive the help then when they most of all need it. Quick response in the period of a pandemic plays a key role, but not less important and it is necessary to predict future consumer behavior in the long term".