Keith Rieders

Current

• Planogram Specialist at AAFES

Past

• Senior Space Planner at Cabela's
• Space Planner at Office Depot
• Customer Support Analyst - Intactix at JDA Software

• Store Optimization Specialist at RadioShack

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Education

• University of Central Florida
• Brevard Community College
• Oglethorpe University

• Cocoa High School

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Industry

Retail

Websites

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Keith Rieders’s Summary

I am a highly experienced JDA Intactix planogram specialist with the following responsibilities at AAFES:
Supervises reviews, assists and facilitates the development of planograms; determines category space allocation and adjacencies to appropriately allocate product. Ensures that planograms sizes, assortments are available to fit all stores. Analyzes and reviews sales per square foot. Implements RETEK integration and replenishment processes. Participates and supervises special projects, new store reviews, expansions and departmental resets for assigned business areas. Works with DMMs and Senior Buyers to develop planogram calendar and obtain permanent and seasonal stock assortments. Identifies and quickly resolves presentation issues by escalating any non-compliance to DMM and Division VP. Sets and monitors group performance goals. Supports the training and development of all planogram specialists as needed and assists in the coordination of workloads with the team to ensure timely completion.

As a Senior Space Planner, I managed, assembled, trained and maintained a team of space planners that works closely with merchants and store management. I provided management on floor and planogram solutions for new and existing retail store formats using JDA software. My duties included the design and building of planograms for best space to performance for product placement. Assuring deadlines are met with planogram implementation; and the integrity of planograms are maintained through base level training at the store level for new store set up and existing stores.

As a Customer Support Analyst at JDA Software for the Intactix portfolio of products, I have extensive experience troubleshooting and providing education to various retailers and wholesalers using the JDA Intactix Knowledge Base and Space Planning tools. I have over 15 years of experience in visual merchandising using Intactix, AC Neilson Spaceman, Intercept and PegMan for planogramming.

Keith Rieders’s Specialties:

Merchandising Presentation, Space Planning, Planogram Optimization, Visual Display Communications, Store and Fixture Design, P.O.P. Design and Planning,
Multi-Unit Retail, Project Management Experience, AC Neilson Spaceman, JDA Intactix Knowledge Base/Space Planning or ProSpace Plus/Floor Planning, Intercept, PegMan, Adobe PhotoShop/Acrobat, QuarkXPress, Microsoft Access/Excel/Office/Project/Visio

Keith Rieders’s Experience

• Planogram Specialist

  AAFES

  (Government Agency; Retail industry)

  April 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)

  I am an experienced JDA Intactix planogram specialist with the following responsibilities:
  Works with Senior Buyers to develop permanent and seasonal stock assortments. Reviews the development of planograms, space allocation, general adjacencies and promotional planning to appropriately allocate product in conjunction with store design standards. Analyzes placement of all new products based on the sales potential, cost, inventory turn, profit margin, and total margin in comparison to existing product. Asses the logical placement for product based on the customer decision tree, merchandising strategy, assortment level, adjacency, aesthetics. Incorporates exit strategy of stock on-hand, cost, rate of turn for all discontinued products in order to preserve company assets. Provides data to labor management to drive allocations for the resetting of planograms. Analyzes and reviews sales per square foot.

• Senior Space Planner

  Cabela's

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CAB; Retail industry)

  February 2007 — December 2007 (11 months)

  Provide management for both floor and planogram solutions within Cabela’s Retail stores; encompassing both new and existing. Supervise, assemble and maintain a team of space planners that works closely with merchants and store management. Oversee the design and building of planograms for best space to performance of product placement. Assure deadlines are met with planogram implementation; and the integrity of planograms are maintained through base level training at the store level for both new store set up and existing stores. Track and maintain budget on monthly basis; utilizing the best business practices for team. Communicate and follow up seasonal rollovers and events by making sure planogramer’s have all pertinent information to execute rollovers.

• Space Planner

  Office Depot

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ODP; Retail industry)

  March 2006 — January 2007 (11 months)

  Use AC Nielson Spaceman planogram software managing the following product categories for all stores: Flash Memory, Hard Drives, LCD Projectors, Media, Memory, MP3, PDA, GPS, Portable DVD, Recordable Drives, TV, VCR, Software and Books.

• Customer Support Analyst - Intactix

  JDA Software

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; JDAS; Computer Software industry)

  August 2005 — February 2006 (7 months)

  Direct support of JDA clients via telephone or email on Intactix portfolio of software that enables retailers and manufacturers to create detailed diagrams illustrating the exact placement of products on fixtures and floors as well creating “how to” instructions for associates responsible for merchandising the selling floor. Intactix also addresses customer profiling and assortment planning, including consumer data analysis, assortment optimization, performance review, demand planning and category review. Support includes analysis of requests, log of all communication concerning issues, troubleshooting and providing education to users.

• Store Optimization Specialist

  RadioShack

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; RSH; Retail industry)

  November 1994 — January 2005 (10 years 3 months)

  Trains, supports and documents best practice standards for visual merchandising department on use of JDA Intactix Knowledge Base, Space Planning/ProSpace Plus and Space Automation planogram tools. Manage cross functional teams on 50 store project pilot to design and test cluster specific planograms with customer driven merchandise assortments that reduce inventory levels and increase gross profit return on space. Work with merchandising team to formulate, publish and distribute an achievable annual planogram schedule. Reviews, corrects and edits new store layouts for design and construction department. Anticipate and develop fixture requirements with buying teams and visual merchandising support staff. Acts as subject matter expert regarding merchandise placement, planograms, POP, print production, loss prevention, fixture prototypes, program rollouts and field projects to establish realistic requirements for implementation to the field organization.

Keith Rieders’s Education

• University of Central Florida

  Bachelor of Science , Business Administration , 1989 — 1993

• Brevard Community College

  Associate Arts , Business , 1987 — 1989

• Oglethorpe University

  1985 — 1987

  Activities and Societies:

  Kappa Alpha Order

• Cocoa High School

  Diploma , College Prep , 1980 — 1984

Additional Information

Keith Rieders’s Websites:

• My Company

Keith Rieders’s Interests:

Space Planning, Visual Presentation, Merchandise Presentation, Store Planning, IKB Training, Planograms, Store Layout, Schematic Analysis, Schematics Specialist, Category Development, Fixture Design, Operations, Scuba Diving, Jet Ski, Fishing, Camping, Nature, New Technology, Family Activities, Travel, Spending Time With My Wife And Kids

Keith Rieders’s Groups:

DFW Entrepreneur Network, JDA Intactix Floor and Space Planning SIG Users Group, Kappa Alpha Order, The DallasBlue Business Network, Toastmasters International, Association For Category Development Professionals, Analysis Connections, Association for Merchandise Planning and Allocation (AMPA), Intactix Special Interest Group, Internal Branding Group, Marketing Executives Group, Retail Industry Professionals, Retail Management Network, Space Planning Special Interest Group, The DallasBlue Executive Business Network

•    Blue: The DallasBlue Business Network (25,000+ members)
•    Supply Chain Movement
•    CPG Branding and Marketing Forum
•    Dale Carnegie Global Graduates
•    Shopper Insights & Marketing Professionals
•    Supply Chain Management Practitioners & Experts
•    Retail Industry Experts
•    Visual Merchandising
•    Merchandising and Planning Professionals
•    Retail Industry Professionals Group
•    CONSUMER GOODS & RETAIL PROFESSIONALS
•    CONSUMER PACKAGED GOODS CONNECTS - SuperGroup!
•    Visual Merchandising Across the Globe
•    SCN Supply Chain Network
•    Northwest Arkansas JDA/Intactix Users
•    Sears Holdings -- Former Associates & Managers >600 and Growing
•    Radio Shack-Past and Present Employees
•    Retail Design
•    RadioShack Alumni
•    Office Depot Global
•    JDA Alumni
•    Retail Merchandising Experts Community
•    SpaceManagement Association
•    Cabela's Past and Present
•    In-Store Execution Professionals
•    JDA Space Planning (Prospace) User Group
•    Space Planning Professionals
•    Space Management Network
•    JDA - Autopilot (Maximise Your Softwares Potential)
•    VMSD magazine
•    The Planogram Forum
•    Aisle Management
•    7 Habits of Highly Effective Category Managers

Keith Rieders’s Honors:

Professional Affiliations/Certifications:
Certified Toastmaster Tandy Toastmasters International
CPI Level 3 Certification (Continuous Process Improvement)
Dale Carnegine Management Certification
JDA/Intactix Certified Space Planning Professional
SMART (Successfully Managing All RadioShack Team-members)

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