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Rent-A-Center Optimizes Retail Network With Alteryx

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Technology Category	Analytics & Modeling - Data Mining
Applicable Industries	Retail
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Use Cases	Supply Chain Visibility
Services	Data Science Services
Challenge	Rent-A-Center, a leading retail company in North America, was facing challenges in creating maps for their 3,000 stores. The process was manual, involving a lot of clicking, joining, queries, and sub-queries. This was time-consuming and inefficient, taking up to 12-1/2 weeks to complete. The company needed a solution that could streamline this process and make it more efficient. Read More
About Customer	Rent-A-Center is a leading retail company based in North America. The company operates a network of 3,000 stores across the region. The company's business intelligence department was tasked with creating maps for these stores, a process that was previously manual and time-consuming. The company was looking for a solution that could automate this process and make it more efficient. Read More
Solution	Rent-A-Center turned to Alteryx, a data analytics platform, to optimize their retail network. Alteryx allowed the company to see the flow of data during the process and make immediate adjustments without having to wait for the output. This significantly streamlined the map creation process, reducing the time taken from 12-1/2 weeks to just under three hours using a batch process. The company is also considering using Alteryx's demographic output to help their merchandising department determine how to customize the merchandise mix in stores. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Data Mining

Applicable Industries

Retail

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Supply Chain Visibility

Services

Data Science Services

Challenge

Rent-A-Center, a leading retail company in North America, was facing challenges in creating maps for their 3,000 stores. The process was manual, involving a lot of clicking, joining, queries, and sub-queries. This was time-consuming and inefficient, taking up to 12-1/2 weeks to complete. The company needed a solution that could streamline this process and make it more efficient.

About Customer

Rent-A-Center is a leading retail company based in North America. The company operates a network of 3,000 stores across the region. The company's business intelligence department was tasked with creating maps for these stores, a process that was previously manual and time-consuming. The company was looking for a solution that could automate this process and make it more efficient.

Solution

Rent-A-Center turned to Alteryx, a data analytics platform, to optimize their retail network. Alteryx allowed the company to see the flow of data during the process and make immediate adjustments without having to wait for the output. This significantly streamlined the map creation process, reducing the time taken from 12-1/2 weeks to just under three hours using a batch process. The company is also considering using Alteryx's demographic output to help their merchandising department determine how to customize the merchandise mix in stores.

Impact #1	The map creation process was significantly streamlined, reducing the time taken from 12-1/2 weeks to just under three hours.
Impact #2	The company can now see the flow of data during the process and make immediate adjustments without having to wait for the output.
Impact #3	The company is considering using Alteryx's demographic output to help their merchandising department determine how to customize the merchandise mix in stores.

Impact #1

The map creation process was significantly streamlined, reducing the time taken from 12-1/2 weeks to just under three hours.

Impact #2

The company can now see the flow of data during the process and make immediate adjustments without having to wait for the output.

Impact #3

The company is considering using Alteryx's demographic output to help their merchandising department determine how to customize the merchandise mix in stores.

Benefit #1	Reduced map creation time from 12-1/2 weeks to just under three hours.

Benefit #1

Reduced map creation time from 12-1/2 weeks to just under three hours.

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Rent-A-Center Optimizes Retail Network With Alteryx

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