Purchasing Efficiences - We are Your Customer
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Centralized Purchasing - Elite is the purchasing customer instead of 266
individual military commissaries
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EMI - Elite Managed Inventory at Distribution Centers (DC's)
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Maximize re-orders and minimize number of shipments
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Eliminate Not In Stock (NIS) items
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Management of stock rotation and code dates
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Responsive and Proactive Speed-to-Shelf Management
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Promotional Opportunities
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Coordinate and enhance quantities with stores and Distribution Centers
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Sales Reps work on commission basis
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Positive reputation and working relationship with buyers and category managers
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Full Sales and Marketing Solution
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Category Management / Product Placement
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Military Scanner Data
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Plan-O-Grams
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Positive reputation and working relationship with buyers and category managers
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Cross-Merchandising with over 40 existing Elite brands
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Promotional presentation management and support through DeCA promotional
periods
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Development and implementation of sale incentive programs
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Existing infrastructure to manage pricing and payments to and from DeCA and the
commissaries
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Technology Management
At Elite Brands, we continue to be on the cutting edge of technology available to use for the military channel. Below are a few of the TOOLS we use to examine our business:
- Distribution Reports
- Inventory Reports
- Item Activity Reports
- Web Based Item Movement Reports
- Demo Calendar
- Systems
- Fully Integrated EDI (Electronic Data Interchange)
- Sales Discovery System
- Custom designed heirarchy & units of measure
- Elite Sales Impact (ESI)
- ACV Percentages
- Distribution Voids
- Database Management and Analysis
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