FMCG - Features & Benefits
Derive the True Market Potential of your category
Category Consumption & Brand Share
Benefit
User can prioritize Markets periodically, where he needs to invest – setting up Distribution, assessing Media to create Consumer Demand, etc.
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Description
Estimates Category Consumption and Brand Sales from Macro to Micro; so Users can estimate Category and Brand Shares at granular levels.
Correlation of any Mkt Potential Data (external) variables with Sales
Benefit
Opportunity for Specialists to conduct their own analysis inside BrandIdea, other than what the current Platform Menu offers.
Description
Build Indices of External Data variables that correlate with Sales to understand the receptivity of Geographies.
Household (HH) Penetration Estimation
Benefit
Analyze the extent of penetration of your Brand / SKU / Portfolio, etc., and take steps to improve penetration.
Description
Converts existing Rupee Sales into HH nos. to Estimate HH Penetration
Macro to Micro Markets
Benefit
Allows development of the Strategic Macro Perspective, to the Tactical Mid-level Challenges to the Operational Micro Initiatives.
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Description
All data can be seen seamlessly at a Macro Level, right down to the Granular Micro Market (Neighborhoods / Smallest Towns / Villages).
Size of Prize Estimation
Benefit
Choose where & how to play not just in Macro Markets, but critically in Micro Markets – for instance, go Direct Coverage in critical Markets & Indirect in lower-priority Markets.
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Description
Segmenting by various demographic, lifestyle, cultural
and economic variables - from Neighborhood / Locality/ Village upwards
White Space Assessment
Benefit
Instant discovery of Unpenetrated or Low-penetrated areas & their relative importance for action.
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Description
All data is visualized relationally so that Prioritization is established.
Sales Exec Performance
Benefit
As in natural selection, some markets will get greater attention at the cost of others. Critical to ensuring alignment of attention with the potential of Markets.
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Description
Identify, appraise and intervene based on Sales Exec’s verifiable performance.
Shifting Rural Income (Monthly)
Benefit
Optimize market investments in the 2-4 Harvest Months.
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Description
Monthly Rural Income transitions due to Crop Harvesting cycles.
Rural Progressive Index
Benefit
Instant clustering of Villages, allowing prioritization not just at the village level but on all levels above.
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Description
Villages are indexed (Most Progressive, Progressive, Transition & Under-developed) by factoring 100s of external data variables in line with the Category.
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Media Discovery & Integration
Benefit
Best Return on Media Investment (ROMI) to better utilize Spends by discovering & analyzing long-tail vehicles.
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Description
Media Vehicle discovery and primary selection by integrating it with Sales.
Media Mix Modelling
Benefit
Savings and better utilization of resources, due to Granular optimization.
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Description
Based on previous spending & returns, recommend Optimal Media Spends and resulting Sales accrual that would give you maximum returns.
Media Reach – Macro to Micro Markets
Benefit
Unlike conventional Planning that both evaluates & buys at Macro levels…
…you can evaluate Media Efficiency at Priority Micro Markets for better buying decisions at Macro levels.
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Description
All Media data & Spends can be seen seamlessly from the Macro level, attributed right down to the granular Micro Markets (Neighborhoods & Villages).
Digital Targeting
Benefit
Reduce spending in Digital Media & improve Targeting with far better Profiling at Granular Levels, than what Social Media allows.
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Description
Optimize Digital Marketing (AdWords, etc.) costs by localizing Targeting to Key Neighborhoods.
Marketing Mix Alignment
Benefit
Increase ROI & Efficiency at every geo-level and optimize between penetrated and un-penetrated markets.
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Description
Align:
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Selected TG & Markets
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Attributed Media Spends
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TG Conversion by its Affinity to Sales
Price Band Segmentation
Benefit
Matching of the right Neighborhoods / Villages for the right SKUs.
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Description
Identifies & clusters Villages based on an aggregation of SKU Price Bands.
Root Cause Analysis
Benefit
Apart from allowing Root-cause analysis due to granularization. our Platform helps in zeroing in on that single entity or set of entities in the Micro Mkt, where Corrective Action sometimes changes the character (negative to positive) of the Macro Mkt above.
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Description
Easily discover under-indexed Markets and drill down to split various variables until the root- cause is identified for corrective action.
Ideal Markets Benchmarking
Benefit
Analyze what the Ideal Markets do well & check if similar conditions exist in the Under-indexed Mkts or what lessons of the Ideal Markets can be exported to these Markets.
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Description
Identify Ideal Neighborhoods / Villages based on Propensity to Consume & Sales and create Clusters or indexes or benchmarks with others.
Value Proposition Benchmarking with Competitive Brands
Benefit
Understand your Brand’s current Value Offering & the evolutionary journey it needs to traverse, including vis-à-vis Competing Brands.
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Description
Brands Analysis on a Value Pyramid that stacks from Base Needs to highly evolved Needs.
Competitive Brands Benchmarking
Benefits
Robust understanding and isolation of metrics of Competitive Brands, including Strengths & Vulnerabilities, Value Propositions, thereby generate Brand Switching opportunities using Demand-side & Supply-side weights.
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Description
Comparison of Brands on key parameters like Coverage, Pricing, Revenues, Media, etc.
Lifestyle Segmentation
Benefits
Focus attention & investments on key segments, rather than aimlessly paint all Markets with a broad brush.
Description
Discover & segment markets by SEC, HH Income, Asset Ownership, etc.
Out of Home Consumption Points (OOH-CP)
Benefits
Better segmentation of Neighborhoods and critically, finer selection of OOH-CPs for BTL, Sampling, etc.
Description
Selection of OOH-CPs by the profile of Consumers (SEC, Income, etc.) around any radius (Over 100 types - Coffee Shops, Malls, Saloons, Colleges, Schools, Med Clinics, etc.)
Retailer & Sales Plotting at
Neighborhood / Village level
Benefits
Allows Neighborhood & Store-level interventions that are customized to each unique Neighborhood’s / Village’s Consumer Profile, Category Consumption & the Store in that Neighborhood / Village.
Description
Understand the Neighborhood / Village dynamics where the Retailer is located.
Modern Trade Sales
Re-allocation
Benefits
Gives you a truer Category Share & Numeric Distribution % in the Neighborhoods for better prioritization.
Description
Re-allocates Modern Trade Sales from Origin Neighborhood to Adjacent Neighborhoods & beyond by analyzing the availability of Competing Retailers, Category Share, Mod Trade share & Consumer Profiles.
Wholesale Sales
Re-allocation
Benefits
Gives you a truer Category Share & Numeric Distribution % in the Neighborhoods / Villages for better prioritization.
Description
Re-allocates Wholesale Sales from Origin Neighborhood / Village to Adjacent areas & beyond based on the Wholesaler's area of influence & availability of uncovered Retailers, Category Share & Consumer Profiles.
RtM Strategy - Expansion Plan
Benefits
Get recommendations for appointing Hubs and Spokes to be covered to increase coverage.
Description
A typical route-to-market strategy follows these steps & takes time to implement.
A good indication of the entire implementation is normally 6-18 months.
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BrandIdea can help you reduce this by half with our RtM / Infra recommendations.
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Route / Beat (PJP) Optimization
Benefits
Given the tyranny of distances in Cities, large Towns & Villages, more efficient routing will increase Daily Coverage, leading to Faster Replenishment & Reduce Costs.
Description
Optimize Routes based on Proximity to Distributor Hub and Product-Retailer- Neighborhood / Village profiling.
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Direct vs Indirect Distribution
Benefits
Recommends the best option at every level to optimize between Direct or Indirect Coverage. Lowered costs, better efficiencies, higher growth.
Description
Our algorithm examines all competing variables of Direct Retailers vs Wholesalers, including Costs, Proximity, Neighborhood / Village importance, Weighted Distribution, etc.
Uncovered FMCG Retailers
Benefits
Generate Uncovered Outlets by Geo-Code so that Sales force can be directed to the precise location, in the priority Neighborhoods.
Description
Details of Retailers in the City, with their addresses, geo-codes, ranking based on estimated FMCG revenue for every Neighborhood.
Uncovered Retailers but covered by Category or Sub-category
Benefits
The lowest hanging fruits can be easily corrected by the visiting Distributor Salesman, provided he’ is alerted.
Description
Uncovered Outlets are not covered by Product or Brand under review but covered by Category or Sub-category.
Market Prioritization - Profiling HHs around existing Retailers
Benefit
Rural is a vast ocean, critical to prioritize to get the best returns – starting with small wins of the low-hanging fruits to the higher-effort tasks.
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Description
Prioritize markets based on hundreds of Data Variables, including Village Infrastructure & Amenities.
Market Prioritization - Profiling HHs & Potential around Uncovered Retailers
Benefit
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Prioritize the adoption of the Uncovered Outlets based on the potential of its location.
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Optimize between Direct & Indirect coverage to eventually convert Indirect to Direct.
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Description
Draw radius around any Uncovered Retailer and evaluate
HH Profile, HHs covered & Category Consumption within the Radius.
