Hamacher Resources Group Enhances its TEMPS Category Manager Program to Improve Ease of Use & Speed
The Category Strategy, written by HRG category analysts, has been reformatted for easier reading and personalized to include the flowgram for the specific-size planogram the store receives. In addition, the merchandising strategy offers tips as well as cross-merchandising suggestions to help customers increase sales and improve the shopping experience.
Never Outs are the top-selling items within a subcategory, as determined by HRG analysts, and should always be on independent pharmacy shelves, regardless of the shelf space devoted to the category. HRG’s Priority List is a subset of Never Outs for those stores that have a very small front-end footprint with departments that are smaller than planogram sizes available. These both now include barcodes for each product on the list making it easy for store staff to scan right off the sheet and order from their wholesale distributors if they are out of any of these high-demand items.
The New Item Alert piece showcases new-to-the-market items that have received a coveted HRG Star. This piece also now includes barcodes so pharmacies can simply scan to order from their wholesale distributor.
Tom Boyer, HRG’s director of national accounts and member of the owners group, said, “Since TEMPS was first introduced nearly 40 years ago, we have annually reviewed the program because the market varies and needs change, so we take all of that into consideration and see where we can improve usability and the impact for our customers. One of the goals of our TEMPS program is to help independent pharmacies keep their assortment fresh and their customers engaged, and because we realize time is at a premium for these stores, we want to do what we can to improve the speed of implementation for staff. The enhancements we have made this year will offer significant efficiencies and productivity gains for them as they execute our monthly category merchandising updates.”
About Hamacher Resource Group
Hamacher Resource Group focuses on improving results for product manufacturers, healthcare distributors, retailers, technology partners, and other organizations by addressing dynamic needs such as assortment planning and placement, retail execution strategy, fixture coordination, item database management, brand marketing, and analytics. Founded in 1980, HRG is a WBENC-Certified Women’s Business Enterprise headquartered in Greater Milwaukee, and was named a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Top Workplace in 2018. Visit hamacher.com for more information.
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