Parker Avery Group

Marietta,  GA 
United States
https://parkeravery.com

• Booth: 1400

The Parker Avery Group is a leading retail consulting firm that specializes in transforming organizations and optimizing operations through the development of competitive strategies, business process design, advanced analytics, change management, and implementation of solutions that enable key capabilities.

Video from our leadership (2 minutes).

Parker Avery consulting services include:

• Business Process Transformation​

• Organizational Change Management

• Retail Systems & Capabilities Assessment​

• Roadmap Development 

• Advanced Analytics

• Software Selection​

• Solution Implementation

We bring senior-level experience, deep talent, and proven methodologies to global retailers, focusing on key retail  functional areas:

• Merchandising & Category Management

• Pricing & Promotions

• Demand Forecasting & Planning

• Assortment & Item Planning

• Product Development, Supply Chain, Allocation, & Replenishment

• Omnichannel Order Management & Fulfillment

• Omnichannel and Store Operations Execution

 Press Releases

• The Parker Avery Group Celebrates 15 Years of Retail Consulting Leadership (Oct 27, 2022)

  Firm’s impressive global client base is driven by deep industry expertise, results-focused consulting approach, and strategic expansion of services

  ATLANTA, GA — December 1, 2022 The Parker Avery Group, a premier retail and consumer brand consulting firm, recently celebrated 15 years in business. Throughout its history and experience with over 100 major client brands, the company has strategically expanded in size, global reach, retail segments, functional areas, and services.

  Parker Avery’s focus on core retail areas such as merchandising, product development, demand forecasting, integrated business planning, supply chain, and omnichannel inventory management provides the critical foundation needed for customer-facing capabilities and innovation. Across each of these areas, Parker Avery’s consulting services cover capabilities assessments, roadmap development, technology evaluation and selection, solution implementation, business transformation, and change management.

  Read more: https://parkeravery.com/industry-experience/the-parker-avery-group-celebrates-15-years-of-retail-consulting-leadership/

• Parker Avery-Led Panel at Groceryshop Focuses on Technology Partnerships (Oct 27, 2022)

  Retail industry expert Amanda Astrologo leads panel discussion at grocery’s premier event

  ATLANTA, GA — Sept 8, 2022  For the second consecutive year, Amanda Astrologo, Partner at The Parker Avery Group, will be featured along with other grocery experts and professionals in the lineup of speakers at Groceryshop. Amanda will lead a discussion in session 3 of the Partnerships and Collaboration series: Executing Successful Technology Partnerships. She will be joined by Anna Farberov, GM at PepsiCo, Luke Anderson, Chief Information Officer for Cub, and Chris Adams, Vice President of Category & Pricing Services at Peapod Digital Labs. Amanda will kick off the session by outlining Parker Avery’s tailored approach to evaluating retail technology systems and vendors. The panel will take a deep dive into best practices for developing strong technology partnerships between grocers and vendors.

  Read more: https://parkeravery.com/industry-experience/parker-avery-led-panel-at-groceryshop-focuses-on-technology-partnerships/

• Parker Avery Solves Demand Planning Challenges with Groundbreaking AI Enabled Solution (Oct 27, 2022)

  Parker Avery’s artificial intelligence-enabled Demand Intelligence platform drives accurate forecasting and optimizes inventory planning for retailers and consumer goods companies

  ATLANTA, Georgia September 8, 2021. The Parker Avery Group announces the launch of Demand Intelligence, an innovative, advanced analytics-driven demand planning platform. Powered by artificial intelligence (AI), Demand Intelligence provides retailers and consumer goods companies a workflow-guided inventory demand planning and optimization solution with much higher forecasting accuracy than traditional alternatives. The platform uses AI and deep retail and consumer goods expertise to produce a meaningful, market-adaptive forecast that drives demand planning decisions. Along with delivering significantly better accuracy by incorporating external macroeconomic and other relevant environmental data, Demand Intelligence provides planning detail down to the SKU or item level for the largest and most complex retail and CPG enterprises.

  Read more: https://parkeravery.com/industry-experience/parker-avery-solves-demand-planning-challenges/

• The Parker Avery Group Optimizes US Foods’ Demand Forecasting Capabilities (Oct 27, 2022)

  ROSEMONT, ILLINOIS September 28, 2020. US Foods, a $25B foodservice distributor serving approximately 300,000 restaurants and foodservice operators, recently completed the initial phase of the company’s journey into advanced demand analytics. Early in 2020, the company embarked on a project to develop an open source demand forecasting system that would help them drastically improve their forecast accuracy. However, despite an existing tenured and skilled team of analysts and data scientists, they quickly realized such a major initiative required deeper analytics proficiency than the company possessed internally. Seeking assistance, US Foods reached out to The Parker Avery Group, an Atlanta-based retail and consumer products consulting and strategy firm with strong analytics expertise and a proprietary cutting-edge demand analytics platform.

  Read more: https://parkeravery.com/industry-experience/the-parker-avery-group-optimizes-us-foods-demand-forecasting-capabilities/

• Parker Avery Showcases Consulting and Analytics at NRF’s Big Show (Jan 05, 2023)

  Consulting firm’s debut in the National Retail Federation’s Big Show Expo Hall features the company’s leadership, retail-focused consulting services, and industry-leading analytics platform

  ATLANTA, GEORGIA January 5, 2023—The Parker Avery Group, a leading retail and consumer brand consulting firm, will be highlighting its retail-focused consulting services and demonstrating the company’s Enterprise Demand Intelligence analytics platform at booth #1400 at the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) 2023 Big Show, January 15-17.

  Read more: https://parkeravery.com/parker-avery-showcases-consulting-and-analytics-at-nrfs-big-show/