Merchandise Management Improves Performance

By Brian Albright, Integrated Solutions For Retailers magazine

We were ratcheting up our growth, and beyond the basic merchandising tools we had, everything else was spreadsheet driven," says Mike McAbee, vice president of planning at Hibbett Sporting Goods. "We realized that if we were going to grow, we had to leverage a system to help us do the heavy lifting, or we were going to have to make a rapid investment in additional personnel."