Encora-Kurt Salmon Associates (KSA) Partnership

Kurt Salmon Associates (KSA) is the premier management consulting firm specializing in the Retail and Consumer Products sector. KSA helps companies build their supply chains from concept to consumer.

With more than 70 years of industry experience, KSA project teams help clients in the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific achieve significant gains in strategic position, growth, profits, and overall financial performance. KSA is the global leader in supply chain management and technology solutions. KSA’s clients are leaders in retailing and suppliers of the world's best known brands.

The two companies entered into a strategic partnership in 2006, to jointly offer technology services to clients in the retail segment. This partnership leverages KSA’s deep retail domain expertise and Encora’s technology services and onsite+offshore delivery capabilities, to present a unique value proposition to clients.

Building on its in-depth understanding of the consumer goods and retail environment, Encora has developed deep expertise across the following business areas:

	Demand Planning Promotion Management and Analytics Space, Assortment/Category and Financial Planning
	Warehouse Management System POS, in-store systems, workforce scheduling Inventory Management and Purchasing Transportation Management
	Loyalty programs Multi-channel management – “pluggable” portals, etc. Catalog management
	Master Data Management Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Marketing Automation Integration, Employee Portals, Data Standardization EPM (Enterprise Performance Management)