Blue Ridge Listed as a Representative Vendor in Gartner Market Guide for Retail Forecasting and Replenishment Solutions

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Gartner lists Cloud supply chain planning and inventory optimization company Blue Ridge as a representative vendor in Market Guide for Retail Forecasting and Replenishment Solutions.

Atlanta, Georgia (PRWEB) November 12, 2014

Blue Ridge, a global leader in Cloud supply chain planning solutions, announced today its inclusion in the Gartner research report, “Market Guide for Retail Forecasting and Replenishment Solutions,” published by Gartner,written by Research VP Mike Griswold on October 30, 2014. The report analyzes the capabilities and market coverage of 21 retail forecasting and replenishment technology providers.

 The Gartner Market Guide is valuable market insight and recognizes key trends such as the growing adoption of Cloud technology and the need for end to end multichannel capabilities.
Gartner observed that the adoption of Cloud technology continues to rise. “The market direction regarding deployment options continues to follow the more traditional behind-the-firewall approach. However, SaaS and cloud-based SaaS continue to intrigue retailers as deployment alternatives. Traditional behind-the-firewall providers now offer SaaS solutions, and pure SaaS alternatives continue to enter the market. Retailers’ adoption of cloud-based solutions grew by 20%, compared with last year’s responses, but retailers still remain cautious. While almost all providers possess some form of SaaS-based offer, only slightly more than half have cloud-based SaaS customers.” Blue Ridge is part of a smaller class of providers that have Cloud-based SaaS offerings.

The Market Guide serves as a reference for companies looking for Forecasting and Replenishment solutions. According to the report, “This research assesses the retail forecasting and replenishment market to guide retail supply chain leaders' technology investments.” The Market Guide provides understanding of:

  •     Vendors in Their Segment of Retail
  •     Vendor Customers by revenue
  •     Vendor Coverage by Retail Segment
  •     Vendor Coverage by Retail Segment and Geography
  •     Vendor Customers by Geography
  •     Vendor Software Deployment Alternatives

Blue Ridge is honored to be included as a representative vendor in this year’s Retail Market Guide. Greg White, CEO of Blue Ridge, commented, “The Gartner Market Guide is valuable market insight and recognizes key trends such as the growing adoption of Cloud technology and the need for end to end multichannel capabilities.” He went on to say, “It’s an honor to be included in this research as it recognizes the immense benefit Retailers can gain with strong demand planning capabilities.”

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About Blue RIdge

Blue Ridge Supply Chain Planning and Price Optimization solutions empower distributors and retailers to tap into undiscovered margin through enterprise-wide inventory intelligence, automation and synchronization. Blue Ridge uniquely combines demand forecasting with pricing strategy, so that businesses can proactively understand the unpredictable and allocate the right inventory – right-priced across the entire mix – to accelerate top- and bottom-line results. In a world where the only constant is change, Blue Ridge provides more certainty, more speed, and more assurance – so companies can see the why behind the buy, and respond faster to the unexpected. That’s why major retailers and distributors rely on Blue Ridge for a more foreseeable future. For more information, go to www.blueridgeglobal.de