Get a complete picture of your customers and your business performance

Gain a 360-degree view of consumer behaviour and engage with your target audience over any touch point. Our merchandise management and supply channel functionality can help you meet and exceed your sales and profitability goals.

  • Deliver consistent, personalised shopping experiences
  • Leverage mobile technology
  • Optimise inventory levels across channels
  • Identify opportunities that appeal to target groups
  • Increase your employees' mobile productivity
  • Improve operational efficiency and margins with analytics

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Solutions for Retail

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  • Shopper Insight

    Leverage the power of relevant real-time information to help you better target customers and manage your business with our retail software solutions.

    • Gain detailed insight into store sales across all locations
    • Improve decision making with faster access to metrics and trends
    • Provide information in an efficient and user-friendly format
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  • Merchandise and Assortments

    Plan and execute assortments based on shopper preferences to better balance inventory and maximise performance.

    • Get the right mix of products at each location
    • Ensure a balanced assortment plan to drive gross and net margin targets
    • Understand retail and merchandise trends at the speed of purchase
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  • Product, Store and Customer Lifecycle Management

    Efficiently manage detailed customer information and every product location combination – no matter how vast – with our retail inventory software.

    • Quickly and accurately maintain core master data
    • Enable global data synchronisation for easy subscription to manufacturer products
    • Support product development with shared master data, collaboration and performance monitoring
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  • Lifecycle Pricing

    Enhance profitability and increase customer satisfaction with strategic pricing that can help you maximise profit while growing your customer base.

    • Identify the best combination of everyday prices
    • Leverage shopper demand patterns
    • Analyse patterns and price sensitivities down to the store-SKU level
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  • Marketing and Promotions

    Get merchandising and marketing to work as one with retail sales software that helps you efficiently target customers with relevant marketing campaigns.

    • Track the actual profitability of promotional activities with full cost and profit reporting
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  • Loyalty Management

    Increase customer loyalty. Our retail sales software can help you identify the best strategy for incentives and rewards.

    • Create campaigns and tactics that appeal to the target audience
    • Use loyalty strategically to reward the right shoppers
    • Access a variety of reward metrics, such as purchases, money spent and number of visits
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  • Demand and Replenishment Planning

    Respond quickly to changing needs. Our retail inventory software can help you develop replenishment plans that balance inventory, service and brand strategy.

    • Generate suggested order quantities using advanced forecasting methods
    • Enable multi-level replenishment across the supply chain
    • Automate processes to increase speed and accuracy
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  • Sourcing and Buying

    Ensure products are available while reducing total cost of goods sold, with help from our retail inventory software solutions.

    • Reduce lost sales with vendor management performance insights
    • Ensure an integrated and accurate purchase order process
    • Manage procurement and distribution of products, including ultra-fresh, to ensure timely delivery
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  • Private Label Production

    Plan every phase of the product creation process, from design and component sourcing through to production and quality management, with our retail sales software.

    • Collect ideas, create portfolio proposals and perform costing
    • Provide onboarding of partners and suppliers, human rights compliance and factory audit planning
    • Define concepts and select templates for a defined bill of materials
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  • Logistics and Fulfilment Management

    Ensure product availability and cost-efficient merchandise flows. Our retail inventory software can help you streamline distribution and transportation systems.

    • Manage and track all in- and out-warehousing activities
    • Monitor stocks and keep appropriate levels of inventory
    • Consolidate orders across channels to meet fulfilment promises
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  • Supply Chain Performance Management

    Monitor and optimise performance across the entire supply network.

    • Monitor key performance indicators
    • Fine-tune your demand-driven supply chain
    • Define the criteria for alerts, monitoring and notifications for better visibility
    • Optimise supply chain risk management
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  • Store and Point of Sale

    Deliver an in-store experience that meets your brand promise and motivates shoppers to buy.

    • Manage customer and cash handling at the point of sale
    • Boost customer satisfaction, sales and margin performance
    • Streamline inventory control
    • Let shoppers choose how they interact with your brand
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  • E-Commerce

    Build customer loyalty and demand generation by turning the Internet into a powerful sales, marketing and service channel.

    • Help customers find the best products and services online
    • Provide targeted customer pricing with fast order creation
    • Deliver personalised product information with catalogue management
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  • Customer Service Contact Centre

    Effectively manage your call centre's activities, while connecting with your entire business ecosystem.

    • Align call lists and scripts to support campaign activities
    • Connect your stores, franchises and customers over an array of devices
    • Coordinate call lists, scripts and promotions across all channels
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  • Multi-Channel Orders and Returns Management

    Provide your customers with multiple channels through which to purchase and return your products.

    • Empower your customers with more options
    • Enable order promising and inventory reservations for pickup
    • Turn returns management and reverse logistics into a competitive edge

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  • Customer Service Management

    Give your customers a higher, more consistent level of service with help from our retail sales software.

    • Resolve complaints and confirm entitlements in one step
    • Streamline help desk operations
    • Allocate staff to support call volume
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  • Solutions for Small and Midsize Enterprises (SMEs)

    Thrive and survive in the competitive retail market. Our retail sales software for SMEs provides integrated solutions that can help you achieve a fast ROI.

    • Capture spontaneous customer demand with improved forecasting
    • Boost stock productivity with supply chain and demand planning
    • Shorten inventory cycles with corresponding reductions in inventory
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