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 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.
Combining proven SAP software with SAP Best Practices and "quick start" accelerators to address core industry processes, SAP Business All-in-One for Retail was designed specifically for companies concerned with fast implementation and predictable cost of ownership.
SAP Business All-in-One was created specifically for companies of your size, at a price you can afford. In fact, a solution to handle your core business processes can be implemented in 12 - 24 weeks. And, because it's built on open standards, SAP Business All-in-One supports modular deployment and your growth plan. So you can add to and adapt the solution as business needs change.
With SAP Business All-in-One, you can quickly implement a basic retail infrastructure, introducing efficiency and automation into your core business operations with proven SAP software and technologies that will grow with your business. The SAP Business All-in-One solution includes:
- SAP ERP application – The same enterprise resource planning (ERP) software that runs Fortune 500 companies can integrate your core business processes, giving you a full view into your business operations. The software provides comprehensive support for managing financials, human resources, operations, and corporate services.
- SAP CRM functionality – Leveraging standardized best practices, SAP CRM empowers sales professionals with full visibility into the opportunity pipeline and sales performance, providing the tools and information they need to reduce the sales cycle, enhance revenue potential, and improve sales productivity.
- SAP NetWeaver platform – The SAP NetWeaver platform powers all SAP software, including SAP Business All-in-One solutions. As a standards-based, open technology platform, SAP NetWeaver ensures that you have a solution that can grow with your business. Partners can easily add industry-specific functionality or business processes to the system to help address your unique requirements.
- SAP Best Practices – Because SAP Business All-in-One comes with preconfigurations based on industry best practices, you don't need extensive customizations before streamlining processes and reducing costs. SAP Best Practices include the documentation, forms, and reports needed to get your system up and running quickly.
Learn more about SAP Business All-in-One.
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