# Barnes & Noble Vendor Portal

Barnes & Noble is a book retailer in the United States, offering a wide selection of books, e-books, and other media.

### Automate sales and inventory reports from Barnes & Noble Vendor Portal

- Connect to Barnes & Noble Vendor Portal and 100s of other retailer, ecommerce and supply chain partner data portals — even your own ERP — and bring in normalized sales and inventory data as soon as it's available.
- Analyze Barnes & Noble point-of-sale trends and easily drill down to the store, location and SKU level to spot opportunities and fix problems.
- Respond in seconds instead of days to reduce out-of-stocks, find sales opportunities, execute better launches and promotions and more.
- Power your replenishment, inventory, promotion and planning decisions by piping POS-data into your data warehouse or existing BI, planning or TPM tool.

###### Alloy.ai Data Platform

#### Connect to Barnes & Noble Vendor Portal and 100s of other retail partners

Alloy.ai automatically ingests and normalizes point-of-sale data from your retail and ecommerce partners — down to the location / store / SKU level — saving you time and making it easy surface insights to grow sales.

### e-Commerce

Online sales

### Distribution Center

Orders, shipments, and inventory at DCs

### Store

Brick and mortar sales, inventory, forecasts

**e-Commerce**

- Data Center POS
- Sales & Demand

**Distribution Center**

- Data Center Inventory
- Inventory
- Orders & Shipments

**Store**

- Data Center Inventory
- Data Center POS
- Inventory
- Orders & Shipments
- Sales & Demand

###### How customers use Alloy.ai

#### Instant dashboards and metrics from your Barnes & Noble data

- Point of Sale Trends
- Sell-in vs Sell-through
- Retailer Forecast Monitoring
- Lost Retail Sales
- Excess Retail Inventory
- Inventory Visibility
- Warehouse Stock Risks
- Allocation Insights
- New Product Launch Execution
- Phantom Inventory

**\+ many more**

###### Alloy.ai Data Platform

#### Supercharge your Barnes & Noble data with AI

Advanced machine learning forecasts, simulations and out-of-stock prevention algorithms power a set of advanced CPG-specific metrics you’ll only see in Alloy.ai

## Barnes & Noble

## Raw Data

## Data Marketplace

## 300+ more integrations

##### Alloy.ai Data Platform

##### AI-powered metrics without the mystery:

- Sales Forecasts
- Inventory Turns
- Lost Sales
- Phantom Inventory
- Inventory Simulations
- Shipment Recommendations
- Weeks of Supply
- Active Locations
- Expected Unit Sales
- **…and more!**

###### Data Integration Destinations

#### Integrate Barnes & Noble data into your favorite applications

Alloy.ai an open platform, letting you automatically integrate data from retailer portals, ecommerce sites, supply chain partners and even your ERP into the leading BI, planning applications, ELT/ETLs and databases you already use.

###### Why Alloy.ai?

#### Connect, predict and respond with Alloy.ai

#### Automate sales and inventory reports from Barnes & Noble Vendor Portal and 100s of other sources

Alloy.ai is purpose-built for consumer brands. You’ll save hundreds of hours per year with our platform that automatically maps retailer supply chain networks, translates across how partners describe products, time and measurement, and combines POS data with your ERP to give you accurate and actionable inventory recommendations.

#### Surface opportunities to grow sales at Barnes & Noble and other retailers

Gain a granular understanding of your omni-channel POS sales trends at Barnes & Noble and highlight changes since the last reporting period. Compare performance across retailers and time horizons to answer complex questions. Alloy.ai gives you hundreds of CPG-specific metrics — like lost sales and phantom inventory — to give you a complete view of your sales performance.

#### Spot inventory problems at Barnes & Noble before they become sales problems

Alloy.ai combines your internal network inventory with Barnes & Noble and distributor inventory data, giving you a complete picture of your inventory levels today and what they are going to be. You’ll get alerted of upcoming inventory shortages or excess supply so you can address issues proactively.