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Retail Consulting

The retail industry is as fast-paced and as disruptive as ever. Our retail consulting experts are prepared to help your company meet evolving customer expectations across channels and touch-points.

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Retail Consulting Services

Clarkston partners with retail companies to effectively meet their most pressing industry challenges. We serve our clients through a broad suite of consulting services, including data + analytics, digital + technology, program + project management, management + strategy, innovation, mergers + acquisitions, people + change, DE+I, point-of-sale, order management, SAP, business process, the below core service areas, and more.

Retail Technology

Technology continues to enable retailers to drive innovation throughout their organization. We help guide retailers through crafting an IT strategy, running vendor selections, and implementing new technologies. From point-of-sale to omnichannel, from ERP to eCommerce, we can help your organization thrive in this fast-paced environment.

Program and Project Management

We know how to deliver projects in the fast-paced retail environment. We help manage programs and projects with a level of experience and discipline you won’t find in other retail consulting firms. Our proven methods and tools are at your disposal, and we help manage governance and execution that fits your organizational needs and culture regardless of implementation methodology.

Retail SAP

We’re prepared help you leverage SAP as a strategic platform to grow your business. Clarkston brings more than 30 years of experience implementing SAP solutions and a combination of industry and functional expertise.

Retail Merchandise Planning and Allocation

MP&A technology solutions have evolved rapidly in recent years, and continue to do so at a tremendous pace. Our experience with various leading MP&A solutions and implementations for our clients has allowed us to build a framework to help you effectively select and implement the right solutions for your business.

Retail Supply Chain

The customer-centric omnichannel modalities of the modern retail industry mandate a retail supply chain that moves at the speed of shopper demand and rapidly shifting market disruptions. We help companies create, execute, and optimize the breadth of their supply chain, while leveraging new and emerging technologies to ensure resilience and agility in the retail landscape.

Retail Strategy

Our retail strategy experts are adept at tackling fast-paced and complex challenges with innovative and agile thinking to design actionable strategies ready to be implemented at the speed of customer expectations.

Change Management

We ensure our retail clients realize sustainable organizational improvements by adapting to the present and shaping the organization to be relevant in the future. Preparing your people and organization with the tools and mindset to adapt their behaviors and the business culture for sustained excellence.

Retail Analytics and Artificial Intelligence

Advanced analytics and AI can drastically improve growth and profitability from the store floor to the corporate office. We help retailers take ownership of their data with proven strategies, data driven tools, and predictive insights that create continuous intelligence, support effective decision-making, and drive actionable enterprise-wide value.

Digital & eCommerce

Clarkston helps retail companies realize eCommerce strategies, capabilities, and technologies to achieve differentiated growth and improve revenue.

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Key Sectors

Clarkston Consulting leverages decades of experience in retail consulting to remove barriers for leading companies in all industry sectors. One thing we know for sure is that no two retail companies are the same. Different sectors encounter different problems. We’re ready to leverage our experience and training in order to solve your sector-specific needs.

specialty retail consulting

Specialty Retail

grocery consulting

Grocery & Grocery Co-Op Retail

Restaurant & Hospitality

eCommerce Trends

ECommerce

apparel and footwear consulting

Apparel & Footwear

luxury retail consulting

Luxury Retail

Mass merchant consulting, pharmacy drug consulting, club consulting

Mass Merchant, Drug, and Club Retail

Meet Our Retail Experts

Jenny McLean

Managing Partner, Implementation Consulting and Retail Industry Lead

Sean Burke

Partner, Retail Industry Lead

Cara Ridenhour

Partner

David Patterson

Associate Partner

Bob Lamont

Partner

Brandon Miller

Client Sales Executive, DE+I Services Lead

Brajinder Singh

Partner

Cory Jackson

Senior Manager

Featured Retail Consulting Clients

What Our Clients Say

Supply Chain Consulting Client Quote

SVP CIO

Retail Organization

Clarkston listens to our needs and completely understands what we need to achieve. They always go above and beyond to get the job done. The team itself has been incredible and extremely professional in all aspects of the projects they are involved in.

Retail Insights

Multimedia Diversity, Equity + Inclusion Consumer Products

Breaking Down DE+I Myths: Is the Case for DE+I Investment Too Subjective?

As we get closer to the mid-year mark of 2024, many organizations are continuing to assess and re-assess their Diversity, ...

Blog Post Data + Analytics Digital

How Retailers are Leveraging AI and LLM to Improve Operations

2023 was a pivotal year for artificial intelligence software, as key innovations were made and commercialized into the market. Although ...

Blog Post Consumer Products Retail

Top 5 Demand Planning Mistakes and How Supply Chain Leaders Can Avoid Them

At the most fundamental level, demand planning is predicting the future within the supply chain, and, in doing so, takes ...

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