Coty Predicts Demand-Driven Retail Issues
September 6, 2006

Coty Inc. selects Blue Agave Software's Retail Channel Execution solution to improve daily replenishment and fulfillment performance for its Wal-Mart channel in the United States, Canada and Mexico. The software will continuously evaluate Coty's Wal-Mart Retail Link data to consistently predict demand-driven retail issues such as stock-outs, excess inventory, late orders and forecast variances, pinpointing root cause and guiding timely resolution. "Blue Agave offers something that no other solution delivers -- an intuitive, easy-to-use system that drives our daily replenishment and fulfillment execution," says Michael Ferrara, senior vice president, marketing, Coty Inc. "Everything we need to make consistent and timely decisions is right there -- identification and prioritization of issues, automatic analysis to determine root cause, even tools to collaborate and take action with our retailers. With Blue Agave, we will have all of this information at our fingertips, without spending tedious hours logging into multiple systems or scouring reports to find and understand store-level issues."