Retail Business Management Software When you choose software from SAP's portfolio of solutions for small businesses and midsize companies, each with embedded analytics that can be enhanced with business intelligence capabilities, you'll measure success in responsiveness, flexibility and efficiency – and a quick return on an investment that meets your business needs. SAP for Small and Midsize Companies.

Retailers are operating in a world vastly different from a few years ago. A challenging market, coupled with competition from around the world and an abundance of information available at shoppers' fingertips, makes today's shopper more powerful than ever.
Additionally, retailers need to operate across channels as efficiently as possible, which means breaking down organisational silos that prevent profitable multichannel retailing. Finally, intensified competition and changing technology mean that every retailer must find new and powerful ways to innovate and differentiate as quickly as possible.

The SAP for Retail solution portfolio provides grocery, hardlines and softlines retailers with a means to turn today's challenges into opportunities with solutions that help drive profitable multichannel retailing by offering retailers the insight to better understand your shoppers and business, the operational efficiency to ensure profit, and the adaptability to capitalise on the best opportunities to grow.

SAP provides retailers with proven solutions for:

• Customer loyalty
• Merchandising
• Merchandise and assortment planning
• Price optimisation
• Promotion management
• Forecasting and replenishment
• Warehouse management
• Workforce management
• Point-of-sale
• Sustainability performance management
• Business intelligence

Thought Leadership for Retailers

Discover how you can improve retail processes and gain a competitive edge in today's challenging economy:

	Emerging Best Practices in Consumer Mobile Move your mobile initiatives to the next level and grow sales significantly by using the unique capabilities of mobile commerce to differentiate your business and by applying mobile-specific metrics to track your progress. Read more.
	Defining Twenty-First Century Merchandising Read about RSR's seven tenets of 21st century merchandising, along with an analysis of the business drivers, opportunities, and organisational constraints surrounding merchandise planning and execution See the RSR benchmark report. (PDF). Log-in required.
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