Retail Execution

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE RW3 Wins Three Customer Satisfaction Awards in Consumer Goods Technology (CGT) 2018 Readers’ Choice Awards  Austin, TX. − February 21, 2018—RW3 Technologies has been voted once again the CGT Leader in Customer Satisfaction and a Best-in-Class Retail Execution, CRM and Digital Provider for the consumer packaged goods industry in the Annual Consumer Goods Technology (CGT) Readers’ Choice

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Central Warehouse or Direct Store Delivery(DSD): Why Some CPG’s Are Making The Switch   Everybody was so excited about the possible savings and efficiencies of Direct Store Delivery (DSD) when it first came in vogue in the 1990s. And for some products, it’s still the best choice. But some leading CPG companies, like Kellogg’s, are switching back to the Central Warehouse

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Why Grocers Are Implementing Single-Source Retail Service Providers Not long ago, retailers relied heavily on a whole ecosystem of CPG category leaders, field teams, third party brokers, and merchandising companies to plan their layouts and execute new planogram sets in a timely manner. However, as retailers started to search for new ways to improve the in-store shopping experience the single

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Are Robots The Affordable Solution In Solving OSA Issues? It slides along the grocery store aisles, registering out-of-stocks, low stocks, price errors and misplaced items and goes by the name Tally. Tally the invention of Simbe Robotics, does the work that seems too boring, too repetitive, and too menial for humans to do, and too expensive for retailers to pay

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A Field Sales App Without Embedded Reporting Only Creates More Questions Here’s something to remember: We’re all in this together. Both CPG companies and retailers are trying to keep or gain, an edge in a market that’s evolving so fast it’s almost impossible to keep up with. The better partnerships you can build, the more you can help each other

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Why Your Field Sales App Needs True Offline Capability We’ve all been there, just when you’re looking for the right highway exit, the GPS signal is lost. Just when you want to check the last email to see where the meeting is being held, all you can get is that infernal loading signal. Just when your CPG sales rep is

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3 Must-Have Capabilities For Field Sales Optimization in 2017 When RW3 started out 25 years ago, our company and our customers were using landlines and payphones. The speed of change has never slowed and we only anticipate that it will continue to accelerate. To keep your team ahead of the competition your field sales solution must have these three capabilities

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: (8/10/2017) RW3 Ports Directly to Field Sales & Marketing Agencies to Boost OSA CPG retail audits are sent directly to third party field reps through RW3’s MarketCheck App Austin, Texas: Using RW3 Technologies’ retail field audit application MarketCheck (MC), Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) Companies can now send follow-ups of in-store issues directly to their third party sales

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Q&A: On Shelf Availability Terms, Definitions and Differences In the CPG industry there are a handful of terms pertaining to issues around on-shelf availability and unfortunately, some terms are used incorrectly causing confusion. To help keep everyone aligned we’ve defined each term and added a graphic outlining the key differences of each on-shelf availability issue below. On Shelf Availability (OSA)

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Client Success: Turning Product Voids Into Sales Opportunities Why are product voids such a big issue in the CPG industry? With a product void, not only is the product out of stock but its facing disappears from the shelf. Then when a field rep checks the shelf during their store visit, unless they have an alert or validated distribution list and

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