These are Analytical platforms that enable a sudden spurt of performance improvement. Designed to answer specific problems that retailers face, these solutions use BI, Analytics, Big Data and Mobility based approaches to provide a clean wrap.

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2. We assist enterprises in unlocking valuable insights
from their business data & making them more
intelligent.
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3. Platform Solutions
Transactional
Processes
Analytical
Planning
Process
Performance
Forecasting
Management

4. Platforms
Location
Location
Buying Campaign Aware
Efficiency Planning Aware
Content
Sales
Delivery
Supply
Commissions Promotions Chain Financials
Planning

5. Platform Name • Input – Specifies the input
Industries Served: conditions and data
Lists the applicable
Industries
Purpose: 140 char
description on what the
platform does
• Output – Details the output
data as well as analytics
available

6. Buying Efficiency • Input – Purchase
Industries Served: Information viz. PO details,
Distribution Rates, Discounts, Supplier,
Retail
Buyer, Item/SKU
Purpose:
Procurement centric
businesses; retailing,
trading, distribution etc.,
depend on the • Output – Metrics: Buyer
performance of their
buying teams to succeed.
wise efficiency,
Department wise
This analytical platform
enables the management efficiency, Supplier
in such companies to
measure, monitor and comparison
improve buying
Benefit: Better rates, More Discounts, Better Purchase Terms
efficiencies
Direct contribution to the bottom line

7. Some key aspects of payments and
cash flow
• Are we paying too early
• Do early payments really lead to higher
discount realizations
• Do some locations negotiate for higher
discounts ?
• What is the net operational cash flow
• Is there a consistent trend to net operational
cash flows

8. Process Flow
Retail System Analytics Reports
Procurement Dashboards Prediction
System

9. Commissions • Input – Sales Targets,
Industries Served: Employee Terms,
Distribution Commission Rules, Actual
Retail
Sales
Purpose:
Tiered sales teams are
driven by commissions
linked directly to sales
related parameters. • Output – Performance
On the flip side,
measures, Employee wise
commissions eat into metrics, Commission
the gross margin
accrued, paid and payable,
A companies’ ability to
balance these two sides, Annual bonus, if any
makes it a winner and
Benefit: Better sales, Better Cash Planning, Timely, Transparent
the sales teams
and Accurate commission payout
motivated.
Direct contribution to the top as well as bottom line

10. Lost Sales • Input – Lost Sales orders,
Industries Served: Customer details, Sales
Distribution person details, Item/SKU
Retail
details
Purpose:
A lost sales is a lost
customer opportunity,
many a times leading to
the customer shifting • Output – Suggested
loyalties to competition. stocking plan, Assortment
The ability to analyze, and Plan and Pricing Plan
eliminate stock-outs, price-
outs of SKUs in demand is
mandatory for survival.
This provides the needed
insight to make this Benefit: Better sales, Customer retention, Higher sales/unit
happen and sell-through
Direct contribution to the top line and customer retention

11. Location Aware
Content Delivery (MID)
• Input – MID location (GPS),
Industries Served: User profile, Content for
Distribution delivery (from other
Retail
Power & Utilities
platforms like Promotions
Purpose: platform etc.)
Distributed sales, service
teams perform best when
armed with real-time • Output – Relevant
information and updates
personalized content
Retailers, if given the
power to push promotion
tailored for time and MID
and deal information to user preference
those clients who are in
the circle of influence will
benefit immensely by Benefit: Real time information feed, Better sales, Customer
being able to convert fence conversion, Higher sales/unit and sell-through
sitters into sales Direct contribution to the top line and customer retention

12. Location Aware Sales
(MID, Handheld)
• Input - MID location (GPS),
Industries Served: Sales unit location, SKU
Distribution stock in sales unit,
Retail
Customer per route
Purpose:
Mobile sales teams,
Distributed sales teams,
Van sales etc. depend
on real time feedback • Output – Real Time Plans
loops to feed the
productive routes most.
for: Run Rate, Strike Rate,
Allocation Planning, Route
Real time location
updates on mobile sales Planning
units enables agile
inventory routing and
planning Benefit: Real time information feed, Better sales, Eliminate
stock out, Efficient Routing of mobile sales units
Direct contribution to the top line

13. Promotions
Planning
• Input – Sales history, SKU
Industries Served: wise sales, Promotion
Retail types, Sales Budget, Margin
Targets
Purpose:
Planning of Promotions
is a double edged sword
for retailers.
• Output – Margin and Sell
While the right plan
would accelerate sales;
thru optimized promotions.
a wrong step will knock Seasonally smoothed
off the margin
advantage budget revisions
Benefit: Remove the ambiguity from promotion planning,
Optimize promotion spend by increasing supplier share in
promotions
Direct contribution to the top line and bottom line

14. Campaign
Planning
• Input – Prospects, Prospect
Industries Served: Profiles, Target definitions,
Retail Campaign budget,
Purpose:
Campaign Objectives
Footfall or Eye ball is a
direct measure of
customer engagement.
This in turn leads to
better conversion and
• Output - Optimized
increased sell thru campaigns, Customer
Campaigns are a retailers profile linked sales plans,
best friend enabling how
are they going to be Loyalty program efficiency.
relevant in the changing
environment?” Benefit: Remove the ambiguity from campaign planning,
Optimize campaign spend
Direct contribution to the top line

15. Financials • Input – Financial set up and
Industries Served: transaction information
Distribution
Retail
Manufacturing
Power & Utilities
Purpose: • Output - Financial
statements as per statutory
Financials is the directly
reflection of a formats and drill down to
Company’s performance
. Constantly assessing
the least level,
the Financial performance v/s budgets,
Statements, Ratios and
the individual granular financial ratios
aspects improves the
Financial Productivity Benefit: Remove the ambiguity from financial reporting
and performance of the dates
organization Direct contribution to productivity increase as well as better
corporate governance

16. DRP • Input – Stock Orders, ASNs,
Industries Served: Delivery Plan, Per route
Distribution packaging, holding and
Retail
transporting costs, Holding
Purpose:
and Demurrage, Budget
Multi tiered distribution
and supply networks
depend on optimized
planning for the right • Output – Optimized
distribution model. Distribution Plan, Actual
Where a milk run is Cost Forecasts and Delivery
advised, going with a hub
and spoke model Plan
guarantees failure.
Benefit: Remove the ambiguity from distribution and
This platform suggests the effectively met demand while costs are controlled.
optimum distribution plan
Direct contribution to top line and bottom line

17. Supply Chain
Planning
• Input – Production/Sales
Industries Served: plan, Inventory, Purchase
Distribution orders, Stock receipts,
Retail
Manufacturing
Item, warehouse, supplier
Purpose:
• Output – Single view of
Bringing demand,
supply and in-transit stock requirement,
information on a single
page helps better
replenishment avenues,
planning future orders. shortfall, outage risks and
This platform integrates stock excesses
multiple supplier, 3PL
and customer data for Benefit: Remove the ambiguity from global supply chains
optimum planning and effectively met demand while wastages are controlled.
Direct contribution to top line and bottom line

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