[Adinte] Strategic Alliance with Alfresa Healthcare: Promoting Integrated DX for Healthcare Supply Chain through Fusion of Distribution Data and Retail Media
Adinte and Alfresa Healthcare have formed a business alliance to integrate healthcare distribution data with retail media. By combining Adinte's ID-POS analysis platform with Alfresa's nationwide network, they aim to optimize marketing for manufacturers and improve supply chain efficiency, ultimately supporting consumer self-medication.
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Adinte Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture; Representative Director: Shinji Sogo; hereinafter "Adinte"), which provides DX support and retail media development/operation for retailers and manufacturers using IoT and AI, has entered into a business alliance agreement with Alfresa Healthcare Corporation (Headquarters: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; President: Makoto Nishida; hereinafter "Alfresa Healthcare"), a major wholesaler of OTC drugs, health foods, daily necessities, and beauty care products. The purpose of this alliance is to jointly develop a retail media business aimed at marketing support for manufacturers.
■ Background and Overview of the Alliance
Currently, the importance of "self-medication," where consumers manage their own health, is increasing due to the rapidly aging society and rising health awareness. Meanwhile, in the supply chain for OTC drugs and healthcare products, there is a demand for highly sophisticated and personalized approaches, such as matching products to consumer symptoms and providing expert information.
Under these circumstances, the companies identified the visualization of data across the entire healthcare supply chain as the key to maximizing ROI and proactively working on the formulation and execution of high-precision business strategies based on data.
Until now, functions such as "MD (Merchandising)," "Promotion," and "Storefront" have been optimized individually due to their high expertise. The lack of coordination between these functions has been a factor preventing optimal health proposals for consumers—a challenge both companies have addressed.
Based on these challenges, the companies decided to combine Adinte's "retail media/ID-POS analysis platform" with Alfresa Healthcare's "nationwide distribution network and healthcare distribution data" to jointly develop a retail media business for manufacturer marketing support.
■ Initiatives in this Alliance
This alliance integrates Alfresa Healthcare's strong network with drugstores and manufacturers, abundant product information for OTC drugs and health foods, and distribution data such as storefront sales and delivery information with Adinte's ID-POS analysis platform and retail media operation expertise. This will enable integrated measures combining "Health/Concerns x Promotion x Storefront" to maximize ROI across the entire supply chain.
■ Details of Initiatives
1. Integrated Provision of Distribution Data-Based Ad Delivery and Purchase Effect Verification
Using healthcare distribution data, target delivery based on MD strategies will be conducted to "deliver the right products at the right time to people with specific health issues or symptoms." By providing one-stop verification of effects based on purchase data from physical stores like drugstores, the alliance will support manufacturers in maximizing ROI on their marketing investments.
2. Support for Optimizing Product Display and Storefront Promotion Based on Data
The alliance will propose optimal product displays and promotional measures based on symptoms and needs using data analysis. This will improve the healthcare experience for consumers at the storefront and support their practice of self-medication.
3. Decision-Making Support for Healthcare Supply Chain
By linking data from manufacturing to sales and finally to consumers, the accuracy of demand forecasting will be improved. This will promote stockout prevention and inventory optimization, supporting all players in the supply chain (manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers) in making decisions to optimize shared infrastructure that supports people's health.
■ Future Outlook
Adinte and Alfresa Healthcare will strongly promote optimization by viewing the entire supply chain as a single entity. They aim to build a valuable system for consumers, retailers, manufacturers, and wholesalers, aiming for data-driven promotion optimization and the creation of a richer purchasing experience that contributes to extending the healthy lifespan of every consumer.
■ Background and Overview of the Alliance
Currently, the importance of "self-medication," where consumers manage their own health, is increasing due to the rapidly aging society and rising health awareness. Meanwhile, in the supply chain for OTC drugs and healthcare products, there is a demand for highly sophisticated and personalized approaches, such as matching products to consumer symptoms and providing expert information.
Under these circumstances, the companies identified the visualization of data across the entire healthcare supply chain as the key to maximizing ROI and proactively working on the formulation and execution of high-precision business strategies based on data.
Until now, functions such as "MD (Merchandising)," "Promotion," and "Storefront" have been optimized individually due to their high expertise. The lack of coordination between these functions has been a factor preventing optimal health proposals for consumers—a challenge both companies have addressed.
Based on these challenges, the companies decided to combine Adinte's "retail media/ID-POS analysis platform" with Alfresa Healthcare's "nationwide distribution network and healthcare distribution data" to jointly develop a retail media business for manufacturer marketing support.
■ Initiatives in this Alliance
This alliance integrates Alfresa Healthcare's strong network with drugstores and manufacturers, abundant product information for OTC drugs and health foods, and distribution data such as storefront sales and delivery information with Adinte's ID-POS analysis platform and retail media operation expertise. This will enable integrated measures combining "Health/Concerns x Promotion x Storefront" to maximize ROI across the entire supply chain.
■ Details of Initiatives
1. Integrated Provision of Distribution Data-Based Ad Delivery and Purchase Effect Verification
Using healthcare distribution data, target delivery based on MD strategies will be conducted to "deliver the right products at the right time to people with specific health issues or symptoms." By providing one-stop verification of effects based on purchase data from physical stores like drugstores, the alliance will support manufacturers in maximizing ROI on their marketing investments.
2. Support for Optimizing Product Display and Storefront Promotion Based on Data
The alliance will propose optimal product displays and promotional measures based on symptoms and needs using data analysis. This will improve the healthcare experience for consumers at the storefront and support their practice of self-medication.
3. Decision-Making Support for Healthcare Supply Chain
By linking data from manufacturing to sales and finally to consumers, the accuracy of demand forecasting will be improved. This will promote stockout prevention and inventory optimization, supporting all players in the supply chain (manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers) in making decisions to optimize shared infrastructure that supports people's health.
■ Future Outlook
Adinte and Alfresa Healthcare will strongly promote optimization by viewing the entire supply chain as a single entity. They aim to build a valuable system for consumers, retailers, manufacturers, and wholesalers, aiming for data-driven promotion optimization and the creation of a richer purchasing experience that contributes to extending the healthy lifespan of every consumer.