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Business Need

In this period of economic slowdown, changing consumer buying behavior, intensifying competitive landscape and slim margins, retailers must derive a balance between various critical business parameters – product mix, pricing, inventory levels, workforce levels and marketing expenditures. Modern retailers already have multiple integrated systems which generate a continuous flood of data, be it sales performance, inventory or customer’s buying behavior data. The key is to sift the ‘right’ data to derive the ‘right’ information which can be accessed at the ‘right’ levels, roles and functions to achieve a ‘right’ balance.

A robust

retail-friendly Business Intelligence

solution can help provide critical informational insights to retailers and planners to reinvent their business strategies and overcome some of the classic business challenges faced by different types of retailers today:
how to increase sales per square foot
how to improve cross-sell and up-sell
how to accurately identify future trends/ patterns to arrive at the right merchandise mix & assortment
how to derive the best pack-sizes, maintain low inventory levels and avoid stock-out situations
how to measure store level profitability & productivity

Our Solution

We offer a robust and cost-efficient Business Intelligence solution built on either on a plug-play open-architecture built-for-retail BI product (Manthan Systems ARCTM*), or on a custom solution mode, created by extending/enhancing a retailers current BI footprint, or even building a ground-up BI system in an accelerated mode.

The technology framework of ARCTM is built on two key components: Analyst & Explorer.

The Analyst component offers pre-built analyses and reports across several business functions.
Explorer allows users to perform ad-hoc OLAP analysis over multiple dimensions and attributes.

These components are extended through a powerful set of BI features like drilling up/down, drilling across, filtering, sorting, dashboard generation, alerting & exception highlighting, report and alert scheduling, exporting and messaging capabilities and in addition a set of advanced utilities for the power user like query builder, cube designer, and report designer. The product is platform agnostic and can be deployed very quickly on top of any Datawarehouse solution and technology platform, and at a very attractive cost point.

The custom BI solution/services we offer are also built on top of extensive library of retail-specific accelerators and assets that we bring to the table. These include built-for-retail assets from the data model upwards all the way to metrics and dashboards.

These ready-made service assets allow us the advantage of very rapidly constructing feature and functionality rich analytics modules on top of any current database or BI system that a retailer may have in place, and to extend the reach and advantages of the same across and beyond the retailers’ business and vendor user community at a very attractive cost point.

Business Benefits

The retail planners are better equipped to determine ‘demand’ with greater accuracy, thus arriving at an optimal trade-off between ‘sell-out without capturing every sale’ and ‘inventory pile-ups to mark-down later’.
Refined marketing strategies to improve customer experience at store with better analysis of changing customer buying behaviors.
Faster decision making through the improved access of business-critical data to make quick changes at the store level.
Plan more effective promotions.
Efficient operational execution and supply-chain.
Continuously track store performance, shrinkage and damages, labor costs and productivity.
* Manthan Systems is a strategic partner for Retail Analytics.
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