120 Walgreens Suppliers Join Data Share Program
Over 120 suppliers are signed up for the Walgreens Operational Data Share program, just twelve months after the program was officially launched.
"We are delighted each time we see a supplier join our Operational Data Share program," says Becky Bly, manager of Walgreens Vendor Supply Chain Relations. "We clearly view this program as one of the cornerstones of our vendor collaboration initiatives and its adoption level demonstrates suppliers see the benefits as much as we do. Using daily point-of-sale and inventory data is fast becoming business-as-usual for both Walgreens category managers and their interlocutors at suppliers."
Walgreens officially unveiled its near-real time point-of-sale (POS) and inventory data sharing program on March 3, 2008, with the intent to roll it out widely across its supplier base. Retail Solutions Inc. is responsible for on-boarding suppliers, for providing them with access to Walgreens data in a user-friendly software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform, and for training them on how they can best use the data to create value for both their organization and for Walgreens.
"We are delighted each time we see a supplier join our Operational Data Share program," says Becky Bly, manager of Walgreens Vendor Supply Chain Relations. "We clearly view this program as one of the cornerstones of our vendor collaboration initiatives and its adoption level demonstrates suppliers see the benefits as much as we do. Using daily point-of-sale and inventory data is fast becoming business-as-usual for both Walgreens category managers and their interlocutors at suppliers."
Walgreens officially unveiled its near-real time point-of-sale (POS) and inventory data sharing program on March 3, 2008, with the intent to roll it out widely across its supplier base. Retail Solutions Inc. is responsible for on-boarding suppliers, for providing them with access to Walgreens data in a user-friendly software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform, and for training them on how they can best use the data to create value for both their organization and for Walgreens.