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Transforming How Retailers Do Business

Are you looking for ways to improve your competitive advantage? Would you like to provide a more dynamic in-store experience for your customers? Do you need to increase inventory turns and improve in-stock positions?

Extended Retail Solutions (ERS) from Capgemini, Intel, Cisco Systems and Microsoft addresses these challenges by providing a standards-based retail platform that enables the deployment of the business and technology solutions necessary for the transformation of store operations, supply chain management, and product promotion.

The ERS initiative makes use of the collective experience, resources, and retail knowledge of four global business and technology leaders. Retailers can benefit from this collaboration by leveraging a methodology developed by Capgemini to transform part or all of their business processes, and by migrating to a retail technology platform developed by the architects at Intel, Cisco, and Microsoft that specifically supports the needs of the retail enterprise.

The Power of Four

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Focused Solutions

ERS enables retail transformation by focusing on three key solution areas: Dynamic Store Operations; Consumer-Driven Replenishment; and Dynamic Promotion Management.

The ERS Dynamic Store Operations approach emphasises process improvements and a technology-enabled, real-time focus. ERS can help retailers realise sustainable process improvements by using just-in-time information available in-store, at the region/district office.

 

ERS helps retailers improve their inventory efficiency through Consumer-Driven  Replenishment (CDR), which replaces distribution data with store-level demand data to achieve true supply chain integration with trading partners.

 

Through Dynamic Promotion Management, ERS helps companies communicate with  customers in new and interesting ways and improve the effectiveness of their promotional activities.