Pacific Sunwear is a specialty retailer that wanted a system to determine which styles, colors, and sizes were selling best in each store to improve inventory and purchasing decisions. The company built a data warehouse using Netezza and implemented MicroStrategy's business intelligence reporting platform and QuantisSense software to create dashboards tracking store and product performance. This BI system allows Pacific Sunwear staff to make better operational and merchandising decisions and managers can track inventory levels to plan future purchases and promotions.
2. Pacific Sunwear is a specialty retailer offering casual
fashion styles under its own brand and other brands ,
such as fox , Roxy , quicksilver and Hurley .
Pacific Sunwear
3. The company wanted a system to determine
which styles , colors , and sizes were selling at
which stores in order to make inventory and
purchasing decisions quickly and efficiently.
Problem :
4. the company built a Netezza data warehouse and used
MicroStrategy's BI reporting platform .
Using software from MicroStrategy and QuantiSense , the
company now has dashboards to track store and product
performance .
Solution :
5. the BI platform's prebuilt and ad hoc reporting
capabilities enable Pacific Sunwear staff to make
better decisions with regard to store management
,operations , merchandizing , planning ,and so on .
managers can track stock outs or overstocks to
plan future purchases as well as promotional
offerings.
Cont. ..
6. the company is now planning to make this
information available on mobile devices .
Conclusion.
