Consumer perception – why people shop with you. This is the key to your success, and it demands a laser focus on customer preferences and trends, coupled with an ability to deliver a differentiated shopping experience. To be successful in retail, you need to:
- Understand the diverse nature of your customer base
- Anticipate their needs
- Control the flow of products through an increasingly complex and global supply chain to meet those needs
If you're currently operating with expensive, in-house software applications, you may not be getting timely and accurate visibility into financial, stock, and customer information. Now's the time to put information technology to work as a competitive weapon – with modular, integrated solutions from SAP.
SAP for Retail: Understand. Anticipate. Inspire.
The SAP for Retail solution portfolio combines proven SAP software with SAP Best Practices to address core retail business processes – so you can understand your customers' shopping habits, build a strategic supply chain that anticipates demand, and provide a distinctive shopping experience that inspires customer loyalty.
SAP for Retail solutions:
- Cover your planning, buying, pricing, promotions, allocations, replenishment, distribution, and sales processes
- Include complete reporting and analysis tools that support the sound decision making that drives profitability and growth
- Provide comprehensive support for managing financials, human resources, operations, and corporate services
Looking for Fast Implementation and Predictable Cost of Ownership?
For businesses that require ultra-fast implementations, SAP offers the SAP Business All-in-One for Retail solution. With SAP Business All-in-One, you can capitalize on a solution that supports streamlined business processes – and has been optimized for fast deployment and a predictable cost of ownership.
The SAP for Retail solution portfolio meets the business needs of midsize retail companies. Every part of the portfolio – from the core retail processes to reporting and analytical tools – is built with deep expertise based on 35 years of experience with more than 4,300 retailers and wholesalers worldwide.
Select SAP for Retail, and you get:
- Better real-time insight – Understand your customers, and leverage this knowledge to anticipate their shifting preferences. With planning, reporting, and analytical functions working from one integrated set of master data, you gain more accurate visibility and insights into your business and your customers.
- More efficient operations – Automate and integrate all aspects of your business, from intelligent demand planning and merchandising to supply chain management and store operations. Improved efficiency allows you to stay ahead of the competition – and satisfy your customers with multichannel loyalty programs, superior customer service, and flexible fulfillment options.
- Greater employee productivity – Align customer demand and store staffing requirements to serve customers at any touch point. Self-service performance improvement keeps your staff informed and engaged, while increasing productivity and creating the can-do attitude that fosters excellent service.
- Flexibility to respond to changing business conditions – Take advantage of business opportunities as they arise – opportunities for new business models, channels, and products. Because they're based on flexible SAP solutions, new business models can be introduced without disruption.
In retailing, you benefit when your core business processes – from planning and buying to distribution and sales – incorporate industry expertise in the form of best practices.
SAP for Retail solutions include SAP Best Practices, providing preconfiguration settings to handle your core business processes. With SAP solutions, you can become operational quickly with a system configured to meet your needs for:
- Merchandising
- Procurement
- Distribution
- Sales
- Financials
Experience You Can Count On. Results You Can Measure.
With SAP Best Practices, you can take advantage of proven industry practices without reinventing the wheel. Our best practices:
- Target key business performance metrics
- Are localized for specific regions
- Provide a solid foundation that can be adapted to meet your own unique processes and changing business needs
Plus, preconfigured software based on SAP Best Practices – along with our SAP ASAP Focus methodology and extensive documentation – speed implementation and ensure successful end-user adoption and continuous improvement over time.
Fast Deployment. Predictable Cost of Ownership.
For businesses that require ultra-fast implementations, SAP offers the SAP Business All-in-One for Retail
solution. With SAP Business All-in-One, you can capitalize on a solution that supports streamlined business processes – and has been optimized for fast deployment and a predictable cost of ownership.