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Retail Solutions

Serving many of the world's leading retailers, including 8 of the top 10, we work with our customers to:

• Improve purchasing, forecasting, and distribution management
• Optimise product profitability, dramatically increase effectiveness, and reduce marketing campaign costs
• Identify and segment customers to enable retention strategies
• Integrate management and financial reporting to improve performance
• Reduce and control operational costs through optimised store performance
• Effectively service customers throughout the multichannel network

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Aligned for Success

These retail solutions align to a strategy for enterprise performance management (EPM). Our EPM solutions enable you to align people, processes and technologies around common plans to execute and optimise business strategy.

Planning for Retail

Improve product differentiation and operational efficiency with better budgeting and reporting. With Business Objects planning your organisation can increase collaboration between retail divisions and provide reports on performance that anyone can access. More details

Business Objects Profitability Solution

The most successful retail organisations are those that can understand their customers and provide what those customers want, while still maintaining profitability. They must deal with changing situations quickly, in response to changing trends, market conditions, and the activities of their competitors. The rewards for organisations that can manage these complex factors are huge, but the penalties for falling behind can be fierce.

• How can we exploit the drivers of the business?
• Can we react quickly to changing situations?
• How should we segment our products and customers?

Profitability Applications and Retail

Business Objects profitability applications are uniquely able to meet the requirements of the retail industry. The flexible activity-based costing engine calculates cost using the most appropriate combination of methodologies - time splits, time-driven and transaction-based - within a single model, making for realistic driver-based planning and budgeting. At the same time, the profitability applications provide a rapid response to changes in underlying assumptions, which can very quickly and automatically be applied across the entire model.

Customer Case Study: Groupe Casino

Our Retail Customers

7-Eleven Allders Amazon.com Auchan Burger King Carrefour Casino Clarks Ikea Kmart

Land's End Monsoon Neiman Marcus Nordstrom Powerhouse Safeway Shell Smiths News Somerfield SPAR

Tesco The Gap Time Warner Umbro United Co-operatives Waitrose Wal-Mart WHSmith

Product Literature

• Enterprise Information Management - Trust Your Intelligence
• Enterprise Performance Management - Aligning People, Processes & Technology
• Insight to Retail
• Leading Enterprise Performance Management - Planning, Budgeting, Reporting, Scorecarding
• Products & Services Overview

Retail Solutions

• Customer Profiling and Campaign Management
• Enterprise Performance Management
• Labour Management
• Loss Prevention and Fraud Reduction
• Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting for Retail
• Store Assortment Optimisation
• Vendor Performance Management

Articles

• 8 Simple Steps to Successful Financial Planning in Retail
• Details are in the Data
• How to Act on Data Analysis
• Retail by the Numbers
• Tesco
• Umbro
• Using BI to Limit Loss
• WHSmith

White Papers

• NEW An Activity-based Approch to Measuring and Minimizing the Carbon Footprint
• Data Integration - Creating a Trustworthy Data Foundation for BI
• Driving Profitability through Assortment Optimisation
• Enabling Process Change with Consistent Accurate Data
• Extending Excel for Retail
• Marketing Analytics for Lead Management
• Multi-Channel Retailing Perspective
• Optimising Profits through Vendor Performance Management
• Performance Management in Retail - Achieving Superior Corporate Performance
• Streamlining Strategic Planning for the Retail Sector
• Supply Chain Intelligence - An Evolution from Process Automation to Business Insight
• The Global Advancement of Enterprise Performance Management
• The Intelligent Store - Driving Customer Valued Innovation through Deeper Insight
• The Importance of Enterprise Information Management to BI