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A suite of subscription-based continuous industry tracking and forecasting services complemented by informed strategic insights and independent business assessments. Comprising of solid and easily accessible
up-to-the-minute data and market forecasts, regular strategic bulletins and open access to the research and consultancy team for additional information and insights, these services are tailored for each of the markets that Futuresource Consulting serves.
Recognising that some clients are best served by mixing and matching elements of different subscription services and want to track specific business elements on an exclusive basis, we are able to customise monitoring and forecasting services to meet individual subscriber needs.
More in depth analysis and tailored consulting solutions are available to address particular strategic issues
and form an integral part of the Futuresource Consulting business model, including:
● Investment appraisal
● Market entry strategies
● New business opportunities
● Competitive strategies |
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Regular sales channels research, ranging from large annual surveys to monthly reseller panels, based on large sample frames across a consistent sample, on a worldwide basis. Includes latest news, promotional activity reports and targeted questions such as brand ratings, views on future products, and strategic focus.
Utilising established research methodologies combined with a unique and exclusive approach to on time consumer research, these projects cover a wide range of issues including product usage, technology understanding, future demand aspirations and purchase plans and general consumer knowledge.
Bespoke research assignments form an integral part of the Futuresource Consulting business model, and include:
● Market Quantification
● Creative Customer Segmentation
● Customer Satisfaction Tracking
● Benchmarking and Competitor Analysis
● Universe Studies and Penetration Analysis
● Concept Testing, product development, pre-sales strategy |
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Futuresource systems, data and analysis allow manufacturers and retailers to make well-informed strategic decisions that lead to higher revenues and profit margins. If you are under increasing pressure to quickly respond to your competitors’ key price changes, Futuresource's price checking and matching systems deliver daily updates, not only allowing you to reduce prices to maintain price advantage, but also allowing you to confidently hold margin where you do not need to be so aggressive.
Futuresource has a highly advanced spidering software solution which can rapidly pull price tracking data from sales-based websites on a daily basis, providing you with the tools you need to attain competitive pricing. This pricing data at model level can be matched with comparable models via an intranet application, which suggests likely matches and allows manual overrides of those matches.
Futuresource can set up an internal system for you which will track the details and pricing of your own and competitor promotion by each store groups. By linking the data to your internal EPOS data and external sources you can look at the actual volumes versus forecast and look at the reactions of competitors and the price sensitivity.
For the last 15 years Futuresource has been coding and mapping together millions of shipment and pricing data records from different datasets, presenting them simply and quickly in table and graphical formats. This same system can be used to import all your data sources and map them together using product ID codes, allowing you to produce automated reports highlighting changing market conditions that you need to react to.
The key benefits of Futuresource supply chain
management systems are:
● Totally customisable
● Totally scalable
● Almost no involvement necessary from IT departments
● Software interface is so simple to use hardly any training and support is needed
● The combined data sources can be linked to automated charting for your regular reports
● Conditional formatting on the data can deliver alerts by the dashboard or via e-mail alerts
● Low-cost solution
The Analyzer, Futuresource Consulting’s exclusive and widely used data manipulation and presentation engine, overcomes the shortfalls of relational databases and ensures near instantaneous analysis. The Analyzer:
● Can be used with any data source, and integrates with your existing system infrastructure
● Provides unrivalled access to multi-source information
● Enables automatic updating of any data-linked slide or chart, saving you many hours of time
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