Build a world class customer driven retail organization
Retailers are operating in an increasingly competitive marketplace. The need to control costs and gain competitive leverage has never been greater. This includes the effective use of strategic technologies to support your business initiatives. Do your technology systems give you the leverage you need to build a world class customer-driven retail organization?
- Is there a quantifiable merchandising strategy in place to support your organization’s financial plan?
- Do your systems give you the information you need to buy what you sell instead of selling what you buy?
- Are your stores, distribution centers and suppliers working in a coordinated effort to deliver the right products to the right customers at the right stores and at the right price?
- Do your IT systems provide you the tools you need to operationalize your data and enable you to quickly make good decisions on the thousands of decisions you are faced with every day.
Retail Headquarters Solutions
Real Retailers, Real Results
Implementing retailing best practices designed around intelligent merchandising decisions and optimizing your demand chain can produce significant results.
Global Mass Merchandiser
A global mass merchandiser with 2500 stores and 200 million profiles used automated management of seasonal profiling and assortment management to achieve a 3-8% reduction in targeted categories while achieving a 1-5% increase in sales.
Southwestern US Supermarket Retailer
This retailer used demand chain best practices to reduce warehouse and in-store inventory levels by 50%. This resulted in a projected net savings of $210 Million.
Global Top 10 Retailer
Implementing demand chain management best practices resulted in an increase in inventory turns from 4.8 turns per year to 6.6. This freed up nearly $4 Billion for reinvestment in the business.
Powerful Systems, Proven Expertise
Expertise combined with the ability to draw on the right development and delivery resources, onshore and offshore, enables Avanade to accelerate the delivery of projects, optimize results, and reduce the cost and risk associated with large-scale deployments.
By taking advantage of industry standards, the most advanced technologies from Microsoft®, and an extensive library of industry best practices we help retail headquarters to consolidate and operationalize data to support and streamline decision making that results in effective merchandising strategies and a more responsive, customer driven demand chain.
Because our solutions are based on Microsoft® technologies they can save you time and money by integrating easily with systems and applications throughout your organization. You benefit from the familiar, intuitive interfaces of Microsoft®, which can speed adoption, reduce training requirements and rapidly enable employees to perform their jobs effectively and efficiently.
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