With the industry getting more and more competitive, retailers are looking to find ways to differentiate and become operationally efficient. Oracle's retail solutions provide a complete performance manage-ment foundation that enables you to:
- Attract and Retain Targeted Customers - Complete customer information, targeted marketing, tailored service;
- Increase Employee Empowerment & Productivity - Comprehensive employee lifecycle mgmt including workforce development;
- Optimize Facilities and Real Estate Investments - Comprehensive real estate, facilities, and project management;
- Increase Enterprise Visibility, Control, and Efficiency - Enterprise data consolidation, auditable internal processes & controls;
- Leverage an Integrated, Consolidated Info Infrastructure - Extensible integration platform for business processes & key reference data.
Oracle has the solutions to support retailers for:
- Infrastructure Management
- Corporate Governance
- Workforce Lifecycle Management
- Real Estate Management
- Customer Lifecycle Management
- Vendor Management
Oracle’s retail solutions support best practices for building your next winning strategy – with optimal solutions for retailers that help drive top-line performance by improving resource utilization and operat-ing margins. In the face of today’s many challenges, look to Oracle’s integrated solutions to help make yours an innovative, consumer-driven, winning organization.
Key Features
Operational Excellence
- Integrated
- Improves overall access, timeliness and delivery of information.
- Share information across the organization, better ensuring that all touch points have the same data.
- Intelligence – consistently capture information and leverage it to improve decision-making.
Associate Optimization
- Centralized access to best-practice tools and information to optimize and empower customer-facing associates.
- Same information in all systems ensuring all touch points have the same data, for less data entry, and cost reduction due to elimination of erroneous information.
- “Built-in” Intelligence improves decision-making, at all levels.
Precision Marketing
- Integrated, Internet-architected capabilities enable true customer life-cycle management to the hands of the retailer.
- Oracle’s exclusive TCA/Trading Community Architecture provides a 360 view of the customer – regardless of how she chooses to enter the retailer’s enterprise (brick & mortar, Web, phone, FAX).
- Built on the Oracle 9i/9iAS architecture, we deliver a robust and fault tolerant offering capable of delivering a real multi-channel experience – enhanced with RAC/Real Applications Clusters.
- Built-in Business Intelligence enables unique, transaction processing, analytics, and closed-loop transaction automation unavailable from any competitor.
Benefits
Operational Excellence
- Timely & accurate access to financial information for proactive analysis resulting in cycletime & cost reduction.
- View, access & analysis product/vendor data for better pricing, more timely execution, improved margins.
- Reduce costs & maximize the value of retail Real Estate portfolios.
Associate Optimization
- Reduce employee turnover & associated costs including shrink (merchandise theft).
- Improve quality of new-hires for improved customer service, sales & marketshare.
- Empower associates to deliver customer service levels tied to corporate strategy.
- Reduce costs associated with employee life-cycle maintenance - i.e., ss benefits.
- Standardize measurements/review process increases productivity/revenue generation.
- In-store web-browser training improves customer service, sales & marketshare.
Precision Marketing
- Real-time access and visibility to customer information enables focused sourcing, reduced inventories, targeted promotions and delighted customers – highly differentiated value propositions.
- Built-in Business Intelligence enable innovative assortments, unique customer services, reduced promotional costs, more competitive pricing, and more profitable transactions.
- Focused post-sales interactions lead to improved customer satisfaction and retention, cost reduction and improved employee satisfaction.