Margin Minder Overview

Margin Minder BI from Salient is a Sales Analytics platform for Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) & Retail, specifically designed to provide answers to the challenges of Sales and Distribution of CPG and FMCG. Margin Minder focuses on product performance, pricing and profit and offers built-in actionable reports such as Price for Performance – that lets you optimize pricing, Product Optimization, Portfolio Mix Optimization, Market Penetration, Traffic Tracking, Inventory Management… 

Key Features

Margin Minder data mining technology helps you to get relevant data from millions of sales and product records with ease and blazing speed: Margin Minder runs on the Salient Collaborative Intelligence Suite (CIS), which delivers the fastest query response in the industry.

Margin Minder focuses heavily on pricing and profits and offers in-depth specialized reports customized for the retail and CPG industries. Margin Minder aggregates pricing data from your stores and POS, and surveys to show, store by store, whether a product’s price is right, too low for profit or too high for volume. Margin Minder also identifies the most effective frequency for promotions, measure promotions effect on related products, pinpoints under or over-performing products, and helps optimize timing for feature ads.

Margin Minder track inventory along the retail workflows, from supplier to consumer. Incorporating supply chain constraints, timing and pricing, Margin Minder lets you optimize your inventory, reduce over or under-stocks and maximize efficiency.

Employee performance can also be measure and track with the labor optimization feature. Margin Minder track performance, sales, hours worked and productivity, and lets manager optimize scheduling and shifts. Margin Minder tracks loyalty programs, so that you can see which customers, territories or stores are most profitable.

Third-party integration is easy and lets you connect various data sources and services. Some of the supported third-party services include Retail link, Census, NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and Nielsen/IRI.

Margin Minder counts over 115,000 users from around the globe and achieves a 96% retention rate. Users rank Margin Minder as one of the best Business Intelligence tool for product quality and customer satisfaction.