Zyme offers project-based services to its clients in the domain of channel data management. As needed, Zyme's clients can also draw on strong analytic skills and tools available at Zyme's Channel Intelligence Center-of-Excellence, to perform a number of custom analytic exercises with the channel data. Examples of such services include:
- Coverage Improvement: In situations where Tier 1 distributors or retailers have not agreed to provide Zyme's product vendor clients with a regular POS and inventory feed, Zyme can be retained to conduct a coverage improvement program. In a typical engagement, Zyme approaches partners on behalf of the client, and enrolls them in a structured series of communications to begin providing data. Zyme has started data flows from more than 200 partners across all the continents.
- Partner Audit: Zyme can conduct remote and on-site audits of partners to resolve long-standing exceptions in the data. Zyme has also established partnerships with two major accounting audit firms for global reach and experience in conducting these audits.
- Custom Validation Analytics: Zyme supports its clients with analytic services to further validate the data accuracy and identify compliance problems such as finding unseasonal trends, data anomalies, signs of unauthorized cross-shipments and potential gray market activities.
- Business Analytics: Product companies rely on channel inventory and sales data for a number of important business decision processes. Zyme provides a series of Business Analytics services to support many of these decision areas using channel data.
- Marketing promotion effectiveness: Produce a weekly statistical correlation of product sell-through to promotions, to monitor the impact of channel promotions.
- Demand forecasting: Produce several scenarios each week that extrapolate channel sell-through and sell-in to the end of the current and next quarters, based on agreed-upon models.
- Sales commission payments: Enrich sell-through data with demographic and firmographic attributes, and produce a weekly tabulation of channel sales according to pre-defined industry vertical or regional sales territories.
- Pricing: Perform a running calculation of actual realized price relative to list price, by partner, end-market, and product area.
