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Retail

Optimize processes for success

Retail

Faced with aggressive competition, characterized by increasing consolidation in food retailing, today’s retail companies must make customer satisfaction a top priority. At IDS Scheer, our consultants have deep expertise in the retail industry and can help you develop and optimize business processes using ARIS Platform, in turn boosting customer satisfaction levels.

The integrated procedure model behind IDS Scheer’s ARIS Value Engineering (AVE) solution creates an interface between the processes and implementation of SAP Retail. SAP NetWeaver also uses ARIS as the link between business processes and the SAP solution within an Enterprise Services Architecture (ESA). As a global SAP partner, IDS Scheer will work together with you to convert innovative concepts into functional realities. For example, we have successfully implemented SAP Forecasting & Replenishment pilot schemes for many of our retail customers in only a month.

Increase your competitive advantage:
IDS Scheer designs and implements secure and innovative solutions for retail business success all over the world. By combining your individual requirements with our industry and process expertise, we deliver standardized processes based on best practice scenarios for the implementation of SAP Retail. Applying our Business Process Excellence principle, we supply you with integrated solution concepts from strategy to process design and on to implementation and continuous system operation in our data centers:

  • Engineering of coordinated processes along the entire supply chain: Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI), Collaborative Planning, Forecasting & Replenishment (CPFR), Advanced Planner and Optimizer (SAP APO)
  • Design of CRM solutions: Call center, listing tool and bonus tool
  • Business Intelligence concepts: Data Warehousing, Data Mining and Tracking, SAP BW
  • Implementation of SAP ERP 2005 Retail, SAP Forecasting & Replenishment, SAP POS Data Management, SAP BW and SEM/BPS
  • Use of industry templates for the retail industry, system coupling via EDI and the Internet (e.g., with SAP BBP)
  • Process cost calculation: retail logistics, cash logistics, outsourcing, make or buy decisions, supplier controlling, supplier evaluation