How does Alloy Intelligence stack up to the competition?

Fully supported, integrated within application
Partial support and heavy manual effort required
Not supported
Manual reporting
BI tool + data lake
POS analytics point solutions
Alloy Intelligence
Use cases supported
Sales and inventory reporting
OOS, phantom inventory and overstock prevention
Order allocation and inventory management decision support
Guided test & learn workflow to measure sales lift on promos, etc
Usability
Consumer grade user experience
Dashboards with one-click drill-downs, sorting and filtering
Pre-built best practice templates for retail execution
On-the-fly report customizations to show specific metrics, time frames, geographies, comparisons and more
Easily prioritize, diagnose and solve problems in one workflow
Customized alerts to enable exception management
Export and share dashboards internally and externally
Automated data collection (supported sources)
Retailer portals
DTC channels (E-commerce and brick & mortar)
Distributors
EDI 852 (Product Activity Report) and EDI 846 (Inventory Report)
EDI 856 (Shipment Notification) and EDI 860 (PO Change)
Historical data files
ERP (master data, orders, shipments, inventory, forecast, plans, network map)
Data harmonization
Product master management customized to reflect your hierarchy
Product ID matching across internal and retailer codes
Cross-retailer POS and inventory analytics
Flexibly model different time granularities and fiscal calendars
Comprehensive network mapping, including location coding, shipment lanes, lead times and more
Platform
Cloud-based
Built-in predictive analytics and forecast model library
Unlimited user seats included
Single source of truth for sales, marketing, supply chain operations and planning
Included Client Solutions support and training
Innovative product roadmap with continuous upgrades