Retail

Multi Channel Integration, Customer Connection Technology, Supply Chain Analytics and Mobile Reports and Dashboards

 

Retail is changing. Many long established high street brands are struggling while a new generation of e-focused businesses is looking to move into the high street. Trying harder with Business as usual could actually put Business at risk for many established retailers.

The massively interconnected world of 2012 offers great opportunities and smart retail CIOs and CEOs are looking at prioritising customer centricity as never before. The globalisation of information, combined with dramatic increases in ways to access this information, has exponentially expanded customers’ options. The ability to control, utilise and access this information   will create an ongoing engagement and interaction with customers that will also bring market differentiation. The information explosion will bring immense value in developing deeper customer insights and a higher level of service.

Accessing, controlling and managing this increase in data usage, types and volumes brings with it new levels of complexity that can only be addressed cost effectively with a focused toolset.

The alternative is to allow the complexity of managing and integrating data to become a stifling force that slows enterprise agility through overwhelming staff, processes and infrastructure. Retailers with the creative leadership to take advantage of strong customer relationships through enterprise agility will be able to turn this complexity into a true advantage.

Agile Solutions offers a number of technology and services options to help retailers keep pace and build a future information based infrastructure.

BI & Data Warehousing

Analytics can be used to drive efficiencies, operational performance and for more advanced users insight to support strategic decisions. Often the BI available or within reach is restricted by delivery budget or performance. Agile Solutions can supply a complete infrastructure, architecture and design and delivery that can maximize both performance and delivery for a budget. The result may mean that:

• You can make one hundred decisions in a week instead of ten?
• You could customise and deliver one hundred assortments to shopper segments instead of ten?
• It is possible to react quickly to public sentiment and reverse a negative response through proactive customer service?
• You can predict one hundred stockouts about to occur instead of ten?

IBM Netezza MPP can make your business processes ten times faster, ten times smarter and ten times simpler? This is the power of Netezza.

Bespoke Retail Applications

Agile Solutions offers a number of bespoke retail specific applications focused on replenishment, demand forecasting and order optimization. Each application can be adapted to work alongside existing retail or supply chain applications and can be deployed utilizing processes and algorithms applicable to your business model.

Our applications are multi platform and work with all leading database and operating systems while having built in scalability and high availability options.

If data volumes, performance or scalability are preventing your business from adapting, contact us for a high volume alternative.

Retail Application Integration

For a best of breed application selection or a single vendor approach, Agile Solutions can offer you an integration solution that will work alongside all leading retail applications. We offer a single integration solution for cloud and on-premise packages and also applications from Oracle, SAP, I2/JD Edwards, Retail J and Microsoft. No matter if you have web service, message based, bulk or changed data requirements on windows, Unix, mainframe or AS400, we offer a single solution. Contact us for further details on:

• Data quality firewalls for all your applications
• A single unified metadata repository
• High availability and full scalability
• Unified ETL, ELT, EAI and EII environment
• ESB and SOA

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MDM & Data Quality

Agile Solutions offers a number of Master Data Management solutions for multi channel retailers with multi domain business data challenges. Our multi domain governance offers cross business efficiency for inventory management, replenishment, forecasting, merchandising, location management and store operations. The ability to share and trust information across business departments and channels supports business process improvements that increase profitability, improve operational management, and make sales and marketing more efficient and focused.

With Informatica MDM we enable our clients to gain insight into specific customer patterns and attributes allowing them to better meet consumer needs from improved identification and management product of product throughput in the global supply chain. More accurate promotion of products and services will be achievable through understanding, identifying and reacting customers’ profiles.

Agile Solutions offer licenses for Informatica MDM enabling retailers to:

•  Create One Brand Image across all channels. Synchronize channels with unified, reliable views of product and services across all customer touch-points extending to external suppliers. 
•  Increase customer satisfaction by creating unified, accurate customer views. Retailers can better target their offerings, place the right products on the right shelves, control inventory and restocking, and better align marketing efforts across multiple channels. 
•  Improve price management through the ability to manage product data in a centralized product information repository that synchronizes pricing data with all applications and store systems. 
•  Enhance merchandising analytics to improve inventory positions and minimize out-of-stocks. Accurate and reliable multi domain data is available in real-time giving the retailer a complete understanding of products and locations.

 MDM Services for retail are also available to offer design, business process and delivery guidance for the large enterprise MDM deployments.

If you have a requirement for accurate and reliable multi domain data or have cross channel data management challenges, contact Agile Solutions for a unique total MDM solution which can include:

• Infrastructure
• Software licenses
• Design guidance
• Team building
• Rapid delivery
• Reporting
• MDM Quality assurance
• MDM integration