Retail & Consumer Goods

We are dedicated to partnering with retailers at critical inflection points, leveraging our deep industry experience to drive sustainable solutions in today’s evolving retail and consumer goods market.

Navigating Evolution in Retail and Consumer Goods

The retail industry is always evolving, but it never faces the same challenges. Despite constant change, one goal has stayed consistent for more than a century: connecting with your customers in a manner that best aligns with how, when, and where they want to shop.

Customers increasingly engage in cross-channel shopping—a trend that requires retailers to evolve and adapt ahead of competition. Our Retail Performance Improvement (PI) practice brings a holistic approach to navigating this volatile industry. Supported by decades of experience and industry knowledge, our experts tackle our clients’ most pressing challenges at the most critical times.

Our Retail PI team specializes in collaborating with retail and consumer goods businesses to develop tailored strategies, data-driven solutions, operational efficiencies, and sustainable growth models. Our practical and hands-on approach ensures clients are equipped with innovative plans to optimize performance and achieve sustained success for years to come.

Who We Are: Leaders in Retail Excellence

Our experts work side by side with your teams and bring a hands-on approach to business improvement, highlighted by:

Highly Experienced Senior Teams: Our seasoned professionals collaborate efficiently with management to identify necessary business needs and manage difficult situations.
Specialized Industry Knowledge: Our experts have a deep knowledge of the retail and consumer goods landscape and detailed understanding of managing the challenges retailers face.
Broad Range of Comprehensive Solution Offerings: We bring a wide array of skillsets to identify challenges and offer solutions quickly to drive sales and profitability, reduce costs, and improve planning and forecasting.
Timely Results: Our experts are independent drivers of rapid results. Through our ACTFast projects, we work within your teams and leverage available data to provide actionable solutions.

Discover How We Can Help

ACTFast Diagnostic

We advise retailers under expedited timelines to achieve desired results. ACTFast is a rapid, efficient, and effective methodology that identifies issues affecting a company’s performance, reviews available options, and maps out potential solutions in under eight weeks. This assessment can be tailored to fit the needs and requirements of any client, but most often analyzes all aspects of a retailer’s business.

Revenue Growth and Margin Expansion

We are well versed in helping develop sustainable revenue growth and margin expansion for clients’ long–term improvement and fiscal security. These opportunities are unlocked by key levers such as merchandising and product assortment, customer engagement and marketing, strategic pricing, product mix optimization, and omnichannel experience improvement. Our Retail PI team works with management to explore the nuances of each client’s business to tap into potential and growth opportunities, whether in a stressed or healthy situation.

Operating Expense Efficiency

Our experts are highly knowledgeable in optimizing operational costs to drive sustainable growth for businesses. Our team’s comprehensive analytical skillset encompasses workforce optimization, supply chain management, technology utilization, and more. Our seasoned experts work diligently with management to streamline processes, enhance resource allocation, and maximize overall operational efficiency to achieve unparalleled cost-effectiveness.

Working Capital Improvement

We specialize in enhancing the financial agility of our clients by optimizing working capital efficiency. Our expert team is dedicated to unlocking liquidity, minimizing excess inventory, and fortifying cash–flow opportunities. We provide analysis with an attentive eye for operational complexities, our analyses delve into inventory management, accounts receivable, and payable cycles. Our strategies balance inventory levels and customer demand, ensuring sustained financial health.

Working Capital Improvement

Data Analytics within Retail

Harnessing the power of data and artificial intelligence (AI), we specialize in understanding the intricate patterns that drive success in the dynamic retail landscape. Our team leverages advanced analytics to provide actionable insights into customer behavior, inventory management, and sales forecasting. Through metadata analyses, including merchandising effectiveness, volume–driver forecasting, and spend cubes for comprehensive expense evaluation, we efficiently navigate the complex retail data ecosystem to assist clients in making informed decisions.

Transaction Support

Our experts have deep knowledge of the complex landscape of retail merger and acquisition integration. We understand that a seamless integration is integral to support and drive synergies through the identification of a go-forward operating model; the first 100 days post-close of a transaction set the tone for the broader future, and we strive to unlock the full potential of the go-forward business during this transition period.