Merchandising Management Module has five components: Merchandising & Sales Resource Planning Model,  Vendor Pricing Model,  Commodity Trading Model,  Growth Program tracking Model, and  Vendor Dashboards.

Merchandising & Sales Resource (MSR) Allocation Model:

In the food business the largest contribution to corporate profitability is Merchandising Income, “MI”.  However, it is my experience that the co-ordination between the two departments sometimes is less than perfect, yet it is incumbent upon these two departments to lead the way to enhanced profitability assuming operations is on target to hit their goals.  So how can these two departments be better coordinated?  By communication of the goals and targets set by senior management.  The most MI profitable “hot” items which the purchasing department has negotiated good deals and the sales department committing to sell them (i.e. reaping the profits for the MI

When a rebate or deal is negotiated the Vendor Pricing Model ensures that the price from the vendor does not rise in the future without management being alerted to the change in price.

Vendor Dashboards allow authorized personnel do look at mission critical information concerning vendor partners.  Vendor Dashboards can contain tabular of graphical information as shown in picture below: