Specifications include, but are not limited to: The PLCB is the Commonwealth’s wholesaler and primary retailer of wine and spirits and the agency responsible for regulatory control of beverage alcohol in Pennsylvania. As such, the PLCB seeks an independent and unbiased consultant experienced in state-of-the-art wholesale and retail merchandising standards and best practices to analyze the PLCB’s current merchandising activities and organization to identify operational gaps in merchandise planning, assortment planning, allocation and replenishment, space planning, price management, promotional planning and reporting, analytics and key performance indicators. Following analysis of PLCB’s current state, the selected Offeror will identify and detail opportunities to apply and incorporate best practices and leading methodologies into process and organizational improvements to achieve greater merchandising effectiveness and efficiencies. At the same time the PLCB pursues this merchandising gap analysis and recommendations for improvement, it is embarking on a multi-year project to replace its legacy on-premises Oracle enterprise resource planning (ERP) and retail systems with an Oracle Cloud solution. As such, the PLCB is not looking for technological solutions or alternatives, rather it seeks recommendations for shorter-term process and organizational changes that will align with ERP transformations. See Appendix F, Current and Future PLCB Oracle Software and Appendix G, PLCB Oracle ERP Implementation Plan for additional information.
