The Retail Suite – Features and benefits
The Retail Suite is a browser based, full end-to-end software solution to run your business. It can be installed as separate modules to complement existing systems, or as an end-to-end, totally integrated solution. Available on subscription and configurable to meet your individual business requirements you only pay for what you need - when you need it. The Retail Suite is already proven to reduce the cost of running IT, improving operating margin by up to .75%.
The Retail Suite takes the very best ideas from Itim’s years of class-leading solution development. Intelligent functionality and best-practice business workflow, sophisticated technology and databases, and extensive reporting are brought together by fully audited integration links.
The main modules are:
Catalogue – Give your business a strong heart
Whether you have one or one thousand shops plus, you need a catalogue at the heart of your business to manage and target your product ranges. Not least if you are multi-channel too. The Retail Suite - Catalogue provides your main organisation structure, and the multiple hierarchies and user definable fields you need for handling any type of product. For the promotionally driven business, sophisticated pricing models enabling global, regional, channel or store based pricing are easily executed using deal-based pricing wizards. Once established, Catalogue will drive all your retail channels whilst providing a company-wide reporting hub.
Store – Access class-leading functionality
Based on our award-winning Chameleon Store Solution, The Retail Suite – Store solution makes a proven, class-leading, functionally rich application accessible to every business, irrespective of size. As scalable up as it is down, The Retail Suite - Store solution is a real-time application that fully manages your single store or international estate, providing instant visibility of retail estate performance and key trading statistics. Whether you need to fulfil basic trading and payment needs, or take advantage of advanced features such as Customer Ordering and Accounts, Time and Attendance, Biometrics, Gift Cards and Loyalty and Media displays, The Retail Suite – Store has it all.
Mobile – Hand back time and control to staff
Do you have too much paperwork in your branch? Do you need tighter control of stock and in-store pricing? Going mobile is the answer. The Retail Suite – Mobile solution gives your store staff the power to quickly and efficiently capture and control stock and pricing, and reduce if not eliminating paper-based processes.
Sales Audit – Check and balance data automatically
Before passing data into your critical accounting, stock, merchandising and reporting systems, you need to be confident that it has been captured correctly. The Retail Suite – Sales Audit gives you this confidence by automatically validating your checks and balances are correct. Base trading data is controlled, instantly accessible and fully auditable. As the data conduit to The Retail Suite’s other modules or other third party applications, the benefit of this module will be appreciated throughout the entire business.
Merchandising – Take control of your stock asset
In today’s competitive, multi-channel world, stock is a key company asset that needs to arrive in the correct quantity, in the right place, at the right time. The Retail Suite – Merchandising ensures that merchandise moves smoothly throughout the entire supply chain from the supplier, through delivery and distribution, on to stores or direct to the customer. Meeting the demands of the business, whilst reducing capital tied up in inventory, The Retail Suite - Merchandising provides the confidence that you are making best use of your key inventory assets.
Merchandise Planning – Increase sales while decreasing stock
Spreadsheets only serve to spread out key information and limit visibility for decision-making. The Retail Suite – Planning solution, powered by the international best-selling Buyer’s Toolbox package, enables you to move away from paper or spreadsheet systems in a practical, affordable way. Proven to improve stock turn and increase sales in less than one year, The Retail Suite – Planning is highly scalable and can be easily installed and configured either stand-alone or alongside other modules.
MIS – Access rich Management Information on the move
The Retail Suite provides a comprehensive list of standard reports across each module. With Microsoft SQL as it’s heart, rich, analytical reports are made available for your whole management team. Just like the rest of The Retail Suite’s modules, MIS is provided using a browser, providing access to critical data and analysis anywhere in the world, from any terminal.
Whether you pick individual modules, or install the full solution, The Retail Suite will allow you to grow your business, with IT costs linked to your growth. This already successful latest development from Itim is another example of how innovate technical thinking can enable flexible, customer made retail business solutions, tailored to fit your individual needs and aspirations and ultimately enabling you to be profitable.
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