Retail and fast-moving consumer goods businesses live with thin margins and short decision windows. A stockout is lost revenue that never returns, and an over-order is working capital sitting on a shelf. SAP is worth what it costs in this sector when it shortens the gap between something happening in a store and someone being able to act on it.
Where we focus
- Supply chain and inventory management across distribution centres and outlets
- Merchandising, pricing and promotion execution
- Sales force automation for field representatives calling on trade
- Warehouse management, including SAP EWM for higher-volume operations
- Demand planning supported by SAP Analytics Cloud
- Production planning and quality management for manufacturers
Field teams and mobile execution
Sales representatives and merchandisers work in stores, not at desks. We build SAP Fiori and SAPUI5 applications for order capture, stock checks, planogram compliance and call reporting, designed so a representative completes a call in a few taps rather than filling in a form afterwards from memory. Data reaching the business the same day is worth considerably more than data reaching it the same week.
Analytics that reach the floor
Reporting in retail fails when it only serves head office. We build SAP Analytics Cloud dashboards for category managers, regional managers and store teams, so the people closest to the customer see the same numbers as the executive, in time to do something about them.
If you are scoping an SAP project in this sector, get in touch. We are happy to walk through your landscape before you commit to anything.
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