DISTRIBUTORS SERVING INDEPENDENT PHARMACIES

Streamline your systems and services to maximize their front-end sell-through

Keeping your independent pharmacy customers happy is an important part of your business. They rely on you to offer services they need to help make their front-ends profitable. But maintaining the status quo doesn’t work for small stores today. To remain competitive, they need to stock the right products, price appropriately, make decisions based on industry benchmarks, and in some cases reinvent the shopping experience. 

Don’t risk offering them the same stale services, partner with us – experts in the retail supply chain. For nearly 40 years, we've provided our drug wholesaler partners with proven processes, unmatched data assets, and reliable business intelligence to help them service the over $78 billion independent pharmacy market.

Explore our services for DISTRIBUTORS SERVING INDEPENDENT PHARMACIES
TEMPS® CATEGORY MANAGER

Your retail customers shouldn’t have to risk guessing which products to carry, where to merchandise them, or what price to charge. We analyze exclusive warehouse withdrawal data and syndicated sales data, supplier marketing plans, past brand performance, and other measures to make certain that every product we recommend for placement on an independent pharmacy’s shelves has earned its place – and will deliver the pharmacy the margins it counts on.
CUSTOM PLANOGRAMS

Need to showcase your private label offerings to your customers? Need category-specific planograms for certain retailers? Custom planogram services fit the bill!
BENCHMARK PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS

When you offer this report to your customers, they will see high-performing items they aren’t stocking, under-performing products that aren’t selling as they should and potential reasons why, category productivity against historical performance, and more. With a clear summary of actions, they’ll be better positioned to meet customer demand and grow sales.
DATA SOLUTIONS

Our UPC Database and web content enhances your customer’s experience and improves recognition, awareness, and sales with consistent, accurate, and current data and images for marketing materials.
ITEM SETUP STANDARDIZATION RULES

Rx, HHC, and HBW brands, product descriptions, and attributes will be consistently sequenced, abbreviated, and represented within your system platform providing standardization and increased productivity across departments and improving internal and external satisfaction.
IMAGEBASE

Power your ordering systems and improve your marketing materials with images from our robust health, beauty, and wellness library.
MERCHANDISING CERTIFICATION TRAINING

Our curriculum typically includes merchandising principles, signage, and new items, and can be customized to meet your needs. You’ll have confidence that your customers’ front-ends are right sized and merchandised logically; and with the resulting attention to the product mix, adjacencies, and more, that sales will improve.
FINE LINE CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM

Our codification system for Rx, HHC, and HBW products has been used throughout the drug channel and is free to the industry.
360° STORE ASSESSMENTS

Our team of passionate independent pharmacy specialists assess each aspect of a shoppers’ experience in the store, delivering a strategic roadmap – an actionable document containing easy-to-implement steps to increase traffic and grow sales, benefiting them and you.
KEYWORD DATA

Streamline the ordering experience for your customers with our Keyword Data. You won’t miss a sale due to typos or a wrong name, plus stores will be able to find product based on treatment terms, attributes, or category.
MARKETING SUPPORT

We have an extensive library of content for independent pharmacies to help them improve their business. Tap into our informative posts for business building tips and insights for your publications and other marketing materials. We also can provide product images and data for digital or print marketing materials.
MARKET RESEARCH

Need to understand changing consumer attitudes and demographics? We can customize a research project that meets your needs.

Over the years the industry has consolidated from 130 wholesalers to presently less than two dozen full-line regional and national distributors. We are happy to say we have relationships with nearly every one, the majority of them longstanding, and are constantly innovating and adapting to serve your needs.