Smedia Merchandising Solution synchronizes your retail cycle.
It provides you the tools and functionality to analyze and manage
key business processes that contribute to the optimization of
your inventory investment. The consistency and integrity of your
data are maintained thanks to its base infrastructure, which integrates
the various applications. This provides you accuracy in the integral
processes of planning, ordering, pricing, allocation, replenishment,
inventory management, and warehousing — key components within
our Merchandising Solution.
We provides datacenter services the US or Europe. Our co-location
solutions at a fraction of the cost of setting up your own network.
sMedias fully managed state-of-the-art Cisco powered Data Centers
offer a fully redundant, secure facility with multiple bandwidth
options, and offers the services that you need, like security,
storage, recovery, consulting, and the people, to help manage
and optimize your data and IT performance.
Smedia Distributed Retail Merchandising Business Systems
Smedia Merchandising Solution synchronizes your retail cycle.
It provides you the tools and functionality to analyze and manage
key business processes that contribute to the optimization of
your inventory investment. The consistency and integrity of your
data are maintained thanks to its base infrastructure, which integrates
the various applications. This provides you accuracy in the integral
processes of planning, ordering, pricing, allocation, replenishment,
inventory management, and warehousing — key components within
our Merchandising Solution.
As well, you can profit from quick wins during the installation
of this complete enterprise merchandising solution, as it's
configured to be implemented in phases. You can also coordinate
and unify your multiple channels, streamline operations, and
integrate the key processes that ensure customers’ shopping
requirements are identified, planned for, and met.
This flexible and comprehensive solution allows you to manage,
analyze, and execute effectively. And, ultimately, information
is available and can be leveraged to realize more profitable
opportunities across your entire multi-channel business.
Business Challenge
Retailers recognize they must continually revisit strategies
and processes, streamlining workflow to manage merchandise better
and to operate profitably in today’s multi-channel world.
Achieving long-term success in retail requires a dynamic system
that manages the transactions that run the business-–orders,
inventory, and prices--so that they are timely, accurate, and
easily accessed. Many retailers do not have an integrated approach
and are faced with the dilemma of using one system to handle
their stores, another for their web, and yet another for their
call center. This often distorts an accurate estimation of the
cost of doing business, while forcing you to run your business
in a reactive as opposed to the desired proactive way.
Features
A flexible and comprehensive infrastructure makes Connected
Retailer™ Merchandising Solution highly adaptable to your
unique way of controlling inventory and conducting business.
A distributed network architecture allows for a separate front-end
business logic and database, with any number of servers occupying
the middle-tier business logic, depending on need.
A Windows-based user interface streamlines tasks with menu
bars, dialog boxes, scroll bars, drop-down list boxes, lookups,
and icons.
An enterprise-wide data repository holds non-dynamic information
on store and warehouse locations, suppliers, calendar breakdown,
workflow, and merchandise (styles, SKUs, UPCs, prices).
Real-time transaction updates and processing provide users
current and accurate information on inventory, cost, product,
price, sales, and location.
Information is accessible 24/7, from anywhere. A web-enabled
enterprise solution, Connected Retailer™ Merchandising
Solution provides easy access to critical information required
to execute daily activities.
User-defined alerts automatically notify users of exceptions
in merchandise and location performance.
Benefits
Run an enterprise that is in sync as you maintain one version
of the truth via centralized transaction management. A common
set of integration tools ensures data updates flow to all applications
requiring the information.
Eliminate manual data entry, computer operations, and procedural
steps necessary to enter common retail information across multiple
applications by centrally capturing user-defined information.
Merchandising also eliminates batch, day-end processes by maintaining
a real-time inventory picture.
Keep the supply chain in sync with customer demand with the
real-time integration of the supply-chain applications such
as Merchandise Planning, Allocation, Replenishment, and Warehouse
Management. Retailers can accurately anticipate, plan for, and
respond to trends.
Fulfill orders through one source of inventory, regardless
of the source of customer requests (store, web, catalog, kiosk).
Avoid the confusion and mishaps that can occur through maintaining
separate inventories for various channels of business. Improve
the accuracy of information across all applications that rely
on product and inventory movement.
Optimize inventory investment in the multichannel world of
retailing. Strong analysis capabilities and a single view of
inventory help multi-channel retailers maintain effective levels
of inventory at profitable prices and locations.
Learn the truth about sources of gross margin with a more defined
and flexible calculation of profitability. Identify all of the
various factors tied to gross margin and then use these to generate
the business rule that calculates it.
Identify high margin sales as you track more granular information
about product, pricing, and alternate hierarchies. This allows
retailers to analyze sales data based on various pricing strategies
for multiple points of purchase.
Reduce the length of time required for auditing problematic
store-level and head office transactions as you maintain transactions
at the lowest level of granularity – by SKU, location,
day, reason code, and transaction number.
Connect stores with your head office system, which is updated
whenever your stores change a price, receive new merchandise,
or relieve merchandise from their inventory. When new items
are available on your website, the stores have access, and when
sales results from the stores come in, your inventories are
continuously updated.
Services
Developed in coordination with many retail experts and STS’s
25+ years of experience implementing and supporting retail systems,
your STS team is committed to providing the sound implementation
and the training you require. Our experts partner with you to
enhance your processes, ensuring your business is structured
for maximum productivity. Accessing vital information critical
to the growth of your business is our goal. We offer both the
tools and the expertise to help you obtain this.
Our consulting and customized on-site training services, coupled
with documentation, online help, newsletters, and annual client
conferences, provide you with the resources you need to maximize
your IT investment
