Consultation service
Our coaching approach
Our mandate is to help you make calculated decisions and analyze the impact of your actions before implementing them.
Our approach
Technological tools
AI at your service
Our consulting program begins with an analysis of your operational cycle. This step will allow us to detail the main opportunities. Depending on your reality, we will create a purchasing planning process with you.
We offer a tailor-made interactive training plan to coach your purchasing team on profitable practices in a strategic sourcing process.
Over the past 5 years, the challenges of retail have changed enormously. Entrepreneurs must make decisions and adapt to new realities every day.
1. Analysis
Analysis of your operational cycle and your systems in place
3. Coaching
Training and coaching sessions for your team on strategic planning
5. Integration
Programming and deployment of the solution
2. Diagnosis
Findings of improvements to be made in your organization
4. Lila Solution
Customization of tools to be integrated and data preparation
6. Follow-up
Post-deployment team training and monthly monitoring
Our customers' opinions
Some examples of accompaniment
We offer our coaching and training sessions on a weekly basis spread between 8 and 20 weeks . Depending on your needs, we train both company managers and buyers and their assistants.
Our goal is to improve your internal team and encourage the adoption of optimal working methods.
How to analyze your results
Know your business and the factors behind each success or failure
Define the analysis reports to be used that will allow better decision-making at the purchasing and inventory level
Help build different reports that will help better analyze the results
Plan your purchases well
Be able to plan sales, discounts, margin and inventories over a 12 to 18 month period
Know how to calculate the budget to be purchased to achieve planned sales
Understanding Open-to-buy and using it on a daily basis
Understanding your purchasing budget
Understand how to divide your purchasing budget by category and subcategory
Prepare your assortment plan before each major purchasing period
Know how much to buy by size
KPIs to follow
Define and monitor a turnover rate and flow rate by product category
Define and maintain an ideal inventory level by product category and by point of sale
Define and achieve margin in dollars and percentages
Define the quantity to buy per month according to sales
The purchase calendar
Ensure that the company is able to set up a purchasing process schedule and that employees understand each step in it. This schedule ensures an optimal internal structure that will allow the company to increase their profits.
The major milestones that will be detailed in the schedule are: Analysis, Planning, Development, Approval and Distribution.