TECHNOLOGY
AS Analytics provides you with the technology solution that meets your specific individual needs, and at commercial advantage.
CROWD SOURCED EXECUTION
A team of hundreds of people across the UK are available & capable of checking & actioning in-store execution requirements.
A well-trained and objective community are available to be mobilised to complete business critical tasks.
Reporting is delivered in real time via an online reporting portal.
DIGITAL IMAGE RECOGNITION
The solution digitally measures the shelf in-store, in less than 5 minutes.
Shelf pictures are taken via tablet, smartphone or digital camera, pictures are uploaded to servers and then analysed.
Mobile and web reports are generated as instant reports, with corrective actions, which are available whilst in store.
RETAIL DATA PROVIDER
The solution is a fully customised Business Intelligence engine creating actionable insight for retail execution.
Our partner offers outstanding business knowledge, with extensive experience of handling and analysing retail data.
Their focus on data integrity means that data scientists conduct analytics, not data cleaning.
RETAIL EXECUTION
AS Analytics provides you with the retail execution management solution that meets your specific individual needs, and at commercial advantage.
RETAIL BARCODE SCANNING
The solution delivers fast in-store data collection via downloadable details of products via online scraping to map barcodes to the UPC of the product.
Technology innovations deliver app data collection and fast set up of a breadth of dashboards of online & in-store data.
PROPRIETARY RETAIL EXECUTION TOOLS
Retail Execution Management is the generic name for our technology solutions which enable the collection of our field data.
Whilst we partner a number of specialist Retail Execution management providers, we also have proprietary systems which we have developed in house.
We partner a range of specialist providers across our group and also focus on supporting the evolution of existing group technologies.
AUTOMATED ACTION PLATFORM
The solution is a user-friendly app which integrates multiple technologies or data streams to deliver insights for action in the field, all in a gamified and millennial generation experience.
It visually displays the priority actions for each store with step by step fixes and best practice tips for every issue. Analytics suggest the most effective fix to make and gamification rewards & incentivises action. Actions taken in store are then fed back in to central data.
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
AS Analytics provides you with the business intelligence solutions that meets your specific individual needs.
ANALYTICS
We use data visualisation and data discovery tools. Our data visualisation tool is a cloud-based business analytics tool that provides a single view of our data via a browser or via an app.
The solution we use for insight discovery gives individuals the power to create customised, interactive data visualisations, reports and dashboards from multiple data sources with drag-and-drop ease.
These platforms enable us to explore simple and complex data to discover the hidden data relationships we didn’t know existed.
NABU
NABU (which means ‘to call’) is the name of the Advantage Smollan location database. This is a dynamic database powered by our central master call file information and amalgamating other key data sources such as attributes and performance data.
The database is housed within our data warehousing facility. The outlet database is a proprietary tool of Advantage Smollan that continues to be innovated and developed over time.
ENKI
ENKI (the Babylonian god of intelligence & creation) is the name of the Advantage Smollan Business Intelligence products.
Proprietary insight is the amalgamation of information, in data form, which is owned or gathered by us, to deliver an understanding of behaviour, such as product, market, channel, retailer or shopper that cannot be found anywhere else.
The analysis of this information is completed to extract macro level insights, as well as at granular level relevant to our clients.
The breadth and scale of Advantage Smollan means that we can produce insights in a way that no-one else can.