Value Assessments

Identify and implement meaningful opportunities for operational and financial improvements

PwC Canada’s Retail Consulting Services practice has extensive experience helping retailers identify practical opportunities for significant financial improvements across all key business functions in merchandising, stores, distribution centres and the corporate office. These value assessments assist retailers seeking to optimize selling, general and administrative (SG&A) costs and/or margins and working capital, improve processes, integrate acquisitions, or drive significant improvements in all key areas of their business.

Our value assessments help retail executives prioritize opportunities through a rigorous quantification of their value and cost. We can then help retailers pursue appropriate earnings improvement opportunities quickly and generate benefits rapidly.

We complete these assessments within eight weeks and identify as many as 40 to 60 practical recommendations to reduce cost and improve margin and/or working capital. Once the value assessment is complete and recommendations approved, we then help our retail clients implement the opportunities they have selected and quickly generate the benefits we have identified.

Value assessments include the following functional areas:

• Merchandising
• Store operations
• Finance and accounting
• Information technology
• Marketing
• Human resources
• Supply chain
• Indirect procurement
• Telecommunications and other utility costs
• Real estate occupancy costs

Contact us to find out how we can help your business.