Technological Advantage
Flexible & Scalable
Built solely on the most current enterprise class technology in the market today, our architecture provides the highest degree in scalability and our rapid development tools provide unmatched responsiveness and flexibility to changing business needs.
Technological Benefits
Broad capabililty for rapid integration into the supply chain via web service XML communication interfaces for things like order fulfillment, pricing control, inventory management, warranty submissions, VIN lookup, etc.
Global scalability supporting centralized, cloud based or localized installations with geographically distributed management components. The retail systems can be deployed locally or centrally and interface with an unlimited number of outside sources such as JD Edwards and SAP.
Servicing a global retailer network via a single unified software product, providing a consistent standard for both data and business processes around the world.
Information Advantage
Unified Accurate Data
DealerVu standardizes data across the globe. An important step in gaining reliable retail data for business analytics.
We automate the transmission of ground level transactional and financial data to regional performance consultants on a daily, weekly or monthly basis to enhance business management acuity.
Case studies from other industry solutions
Value of retail information to the supply chain
Zara is the flagship brand of the Spanish retail group Inditex and one of the super-heated performers in a soft retail market in recent years. When Intitex offered a 23% stake to the public in 2001, the issue was oversubscribed by 26 times. Why? Well for a start it seemed to show higher profit margins than comparable retailers, and secondly, the trend seemed sustainable.
What sets Zara ahead of many of its competitors is what it has done to its business information and business process. Rather than focusing on forecasting accurately, it has developed its business around reacting swiftly.
Information and communications technology is at the heart of Zara´s business. Collecting information on consumer needs; trend information flows daily, and is fed into a database at head office. Designers check these dispatches as well as daily sales numbers, using the information to create new lines and modify existing ones thus designers have access to real-time information.
Zara has invested significantly in information technology and communications infrastructure to keep streaming up-to-date trend information to the people making the product and business decisions. At the leading edge of research are the sales associated and store managers in Zara stores, who zap orders on customized hand held computers over the Internet to Zara headquarters based on what they are selling. And not just orders, but ideas for cut, fabrics and whole new lines. They draw upon customer comments. Traditionally daily sales reports can hardly provide such a dynamically updated picture of the market.
Harvard Business School