Data is your competitive advantage. 
We can help you use it.

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Unlock the full potential of your data

It’s no longer enough to have data. Empower every department with detailed reporting and forecasting to track every product’s history, current status, and future trends. 

CATAPULT Cognition® was designed to be present wherever decisions are being made, which is why we don’t charge by user. Empower every department and know every detail of what happened, what’s happening, and what will happen with every product in your store with unmatched reporting and forecasting detail.

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CATAPULT Cognition drives organizational change through transparency across all levels of your enterprise, compelling employees to take action to improve the bottom line and ensuring everyone knows when they are successful in their role.

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Hundreds of problems solved by one integrated solution

Wildly scalable and lightning fast, our cloud-based application features four quadrants, delivering essential insights to retailers instantly.

CATAPULT Cognition’s data structure saves you time and money with its impressive data compression ability and rapid data analysis. Efficient and secure long-term storage is crucial for any worthwhile BI solution.

CATAPULT Cognition offers a variety of popular dashboards and pivot tables right out of the box. Most importantly, it’s fully customizable. Each department can tailor their dashboard to meet their specific needs, ensuring that every decision-maker, regardless of their level, has the necessary information to make confident decisions with specialized KPI monitoring. Additionally, CATAPULT Cognition is designed to exclude personally identifiable information (PII), payment cardholder data, and HIPAA-regulated personal health information (PHI).

Make your data as valuable outside of CATAPULT Cognition as it is inside by integrating it with any number of other programs you currently use. This flexibility makes onboarding easy.

Get access to powerful AI forecasting and recommendation abilities at a fraction of the cost of similar BI products. Through our Advanced Machine Learning technology, we are able to offer personalized recommendations to your customers via our web service. Our recommendation system, Cognition Artemis™, has consistently been shown to increase the size of customer orders while providing a delightful and satisfying online shopping experience.

POWERFUL PRESCRIPTIVE AI
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Average Cognition Artemis™ Impact per Transaction ($)

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Enterprise sales

Enterprise Sales - Craving a comprehensive overview? Let Cognition unveil a bird's-eye view of your whole operation.

Accounts payable
Accounts Payable - Cognition equips your finance team with the state-of-the-art tools for streamlined and precise reporting.
Inventory Movement
Inventory Movement - Cognition empowers your buyers with all the latest tools to ensure each store has exactly what it needs to meet demand and minimize shrinkage.
Sales by Department
Sales by Department - Are you seeking more details on how individual departments are performing? Cognition can dissect the details to provide you with crucial information that empowers your decision-making.
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Cashier Activity - Empower floor staff and enhance customer service by creating a dashboard tailored specifically for them, containing all the necessary information to be more effective and engaged team members.
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Harness the power of the cloud with infinite storage and computing power

CATAPULT Cognition is a highly performant tool, built for extremely fast reads and scalability across your organization. Synthesizing power and ease of use, Cognition has the potential to be login ready within 72-hours of onboarding. Once established, new data is pushed to every dashboard across your organization in 15-minute intervals. Cognition makes data your competitive advantage by putting it in the hands of decision-makers across your organization. 

DemandFill® 3.0: Order Forecasting Accuracy

Demand Fill 3.0 (DF3), a groundbreaking third generation forecasting solution within the CATAPULT Cognition® platform, is set to provide pinpoint-precise industry-leading automated ordering for independent retailers. DF3 leverages advanced AI and predictive analytics to deliver unparalleled accuracy in automated ordering by synthesizing data from historical sales, seasonal patterns, promotional influences, lead times, safety stock, and current inventory status – ensuring optimal inventory levels. DF3 also has self-corrective learning, making it smarter over time. Say goodbye to stockouts and overstock, and hello to optimal inventory levels!

Sales & Inventory Forecasting Powered by DemandFill to provide retailers with unparalleled accuracy in automated ordering by synthesizing data from historical sales, seasonal patterns, promotional influences, lead times, safety stock, and current inventory status – ensuring optimal inventory levels.

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Powerful Personalization Powered by AI

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Cognition utilizes ECRS’ powerful AI tools, Cognition Artemis™ and DemandFill®, to optimize your shoppers’ experience in your store and your back-office team’s ability to run the store at the same time!

When combined with ECRS’ eCommerce solution, WebCart™, Artemis automatically serves your shoppers recommended items while shopping to grow basket sizes and average online transaction size.
All retailers need to do is define their audience and pick a send time. Artemis does the rest by automatically searching available manufacturer coupons and distributing them to shoppers based on their shopping history. Drive shopper loyalty by sending them coupons you know they want!
Serve shoppers coupons to use on their current transaction at the register. Artemis and Connect+Save™ offers shoppers manufacturer coupons at the register that they can clip and use on their current transaction and coupons for future use based on their buying habits. Artemis also presents shoppers with personalized coupons for items it knows they like when they log into WebCart, keeping shoppers loyal across your brick and mortar and eCommerce storefronts.
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"With over 60 years of trust and experience in the grocery retail industry, we understand the introduction of cutting-edge technology can come with some challenges. The enthusiasm our team members show when introduced to this new platform is inspiring. In one hour, my team members are connected to our intuitive dashboards. Their excitement and reactions —'Oh my, and I can't break it?'—are truly rewarding. We are thrilled to leverage the data we've been capturing over the past three years to drive our business forward."

Jeff 
Director, 10 Store Traditional Grocery Chain

"CATAPULT Cognition® has given us the ability to quickly monitor our KPIs without having to log into CATAPULT itself. We now have the convenience of monitoring our business anywhere with internet connection, allowing us to quickly identify and form a plan to make informed decisions to control our business and maintain the competitive advantages we enjoy."

John
VP of Operations, Farm Market

"CATAPULT Cognition® exemplifies ECRS’ commitment to giving our customers a competitive winning edge. We designed Cognition to be affordable, powerful, and accessible. This solution provides a bedrock data foundation to meet the growing data demands of AI now, and for the foreseeable future."

Pete Catoe
ECRS Founder & CEO

Learn More about the Power of CATAPULT Cognition

Save your store time and money with a data analytics tool that is as powerful as it is easy to use.
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