Responding to changing sales cycles and channels, winter sporting goods supplier, Burton, needed a way to make inventory available to customers anywhere and at any time. In almost half the estimated time, it delivered a new logistics solution allowing employees to source products directly from retail stores when the warehouse is out of stock, resulting in overall less stagnant inventory and a 10X ROI.
Unveiling Design Patterns: A Visual Guide with UML Diagrams
Responsive Retail Strategies That Yield 10x ROI
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That Yield 10x ROI
Seeing obstacles as opportunities and finding creative
ways to over come them.
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Matthew
Burns
Manager of Advanced Analytics| Burton
Snowboards
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We Are Riders,
We Work Like We Ride,
We Ride Together.
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● Burton Snowboards
■ Established in 1977
■ Offices: Burlington VT, Innsbruck, Tokyo
■ 52 Stores Worldwide
■ Jake & Donna
■ Hardgoods, Soft goods, Bags & Luggage,
Mountain Life Apparel
■ Premium brand placement in the market
■ Strive to be innovative and sustainable
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● Traditionally a Wholesale brand
■ Buyer Sell-in October - February
■ Product Ships August - October
■ Specialty Retails aka, Board Shops
■ Cultural heart of snowboarding
■ Highly impacted by online sales
● Direct to Consumer Movement
■ Limited ECOM exposure in 2009
■ Ensure premium distribution channels
■ Burton retail summer clearance event
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Controlling the Edge of
Inventory
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● Inventory Scarcity Model
■ Stronger in-season Sell-Thru
■ Reduce in-season off-price sales
■ Sustainability
● Balanced Inventory Channels
■ Reduce on-hand inventory for yearly
clearance event
■ Fluid Ecom & Retail inventory
■ Sell to the demand
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Discounting Inventory Model
Distribution Center
ECOM Inventory
Retail Inventory
Inventory from Manufacturers
Burton Retail
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Discounting Inventory Model
Aged Inventory
Distribution Center
ECOM & Retail
Inventory
Packed & Tagged
Burton Retail
Summer Sale
Discount Pricing
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Scarcity Inventory Model
Distribution Center
ECOM Inventory
Retail Inventory
ECOM Demand
Burton Retail
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Uncorking the Demand
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● OMNI Channel Dashboard (OCD)
■ Project conception Spring 2016
■ MVP delivery February 2017
■ Black Friday identified business
opportunity summer 2016
■ MVP schedule revised for November
1st 2016
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● Project Details
■ Estimated at 900 hours
■ 1 PT intern & 1 FT developer
■ Execution start mid-August
● Investment & Deployment
■ Capitalized 500 hours, ~ $30k
■ 1 pilot store, started NA store rollouts in
February
■ First 60 days, 1.7k deliveries with 5xROI in
Revenue
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● Current State
■ 23 stores in The United States, Europe, &
Japan
■ Over 80k units shipped
■ Approx. $40k year on dev & support
● Direct ROI
■ Summer Sale OH units down %38 YoY
■ North of 10M in Revenue
■ 35xROI in Revenue
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Editor's Notes
Largest independently owned snowboard company
Established in Mansfield VT
Corporate Headquarters in Burlington VT with regional headquarters in Innsbruck Austria, Tokyo Japan, and regional offices in Australia and China
Currently we have 28 Flagship and Outlet stores world wide. 12 in the US and 1 in Canada with 7 in Europe
Owned by Jake Burton Carpenter, didn’t invented snowboarding but lead the charge to turn it into a sport
Donna is a leader work place gender equality and climate change activism
400-500 employees world wide
Not only snowboard gear but mountain life gear, camping gear, mountain life apparel, bags & luggage
Burton dominates all snowboarding hardgood categories, also sells more softgoods then another snowboard company
Specialty board shops are seeing less and less foot traffic
Board shops and their culture has been the heart of snowboard community, every board shop closed is a lost group of customers
Major sporting good chains have closed within the last 2 years with Dicks and Under Armor currently struggling
Amazon and the power of reviews is driving sales on-line.
Customers are no longer buying “kits” before they season starts
Customers are waiting until big trips or discounts before buying
Moving from early season to later winter.
Online reviews are replacing word of mouth
Touch in the stores, buy on-line
Sell-Thru dependent by weather events **SNOW**
Flagships often have with limited back stock rooms and take smaller replenishment orders from DC then typical wholesale accounts
Summer Sale
Products sold for 50-80% off of MSRP
Once product leaves the warehouse it can’t go back
Large sales event hurts the brand image
A Customer places the order, the order is passed from the Ecom site (SFCC) to the backend ERP solution (SAP)
SAP ensure the product is in the DC and then passes the ”request for delivery” to the DC
The DC creates the shipment and sends it to the customer, a dissatisfied customer while then ship the product back to the DC
The communication between the DC and ERP solution is through an EDI gateway via SAP Idocs, xml based documents
The DC uses logistical solutions to handle the processing
The solution the inventory quandary is to provide the stores with a logistical solution so the stores can be have as outbound shipping points
In the new state the ERP system can look to the store to help fulfill parts of the order that the DC can not.
To do this, the store would need a UI to receive incoming ”request for delivery” work items and process them
This will require store employees to learn new but part time skill, shipping.
The experience of the customer must not suffer, so the stores need to match the level of quality from the DC
High level business requirements
The business had developed some working wireframes, for the UI
Origin of the shipment must be transparent to the customer
Low volume, estimated 5-10 shipments/Store/Day
Processor identification & security
Simple intuitive design
UI must support tablet & touch screens
UPC tags to be scanned for verification
Create & Track UPS Shipments
Auto Print packing slip & shipping labels directly from UI
Inventory discrepancy management
Scope
RESTFul web services
UPS Shipment & Tracking APIs
Print packing slip & labels directly from UI
Zebra Printer - Browser Print
Merged PDF Printing – peel off return label
SAP
POS Inventory management
1 Full Time FTE: Enterprise Service Bus & Data Storage
Production Support (25% ~ 100%)
1 Part Time Student: User Interface
MIS & Digital Marketing focus
20 hours a week
Implementation
November 1st MVP Delivered
1st customer was the DTC VP
Restricted Stock
7 styles of Levi’s jeans
Opened to all inventory November 15th
Go-live view
Top image is go live version
Bottom image is the evolution of the UI.
Japan just went live a month ago.
Translations happening with property based localized files
Implemented new logistics carrier