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Archives for December 2014
Retail Moving on Cloud
December 24, 2014 by Leave a Comment
In the business of Technologically Transforming Retail Landscapes, CitiXsys Technologies has been involved in bringing valuable content to 
readers for some years now. This white paper is intended for all who have experienced, observed and appreciate the value of Modern Retail Technology, Integrated Store experience and are keenly looking forward to commit to the concept of Cloud in Retail.
Modern Day Retail stores must offer shopper’s seamless Retail experiences, something that can’t be experienced online, to become preferred destinations. On the other hand retailers need to re-examine their strategy to provide a seamless experience across the entire customer-buying journey by diminishing the boundaries between online and physical world.
Download our Whitepaper on Cloud to know how cloud can transform retail operations and bring plenty of benefits to a retail organization.
Retailers have long set out on the journey to innovate realizing the absolute necessity of being truly seamless – maximizing the power and promise of technology across all channels, and across the Retail enterprise. But where should a retailer focus and how can a he quickly move from what’s now to what’s next?
Primarily retailers’ focus on efforts to build a competitive edge for the future by going interoperable and seamless across all channels.
Progression towards this path will be truly seamless set of systems, the business and IT will support continual adaptation, the digital experience will be supported by analytics and scalable IT, and the in-store experience will be integrated with digital channels.
Cloud applications for retail, scalability delivered as-a-service, makes this distant dream possible. Retailers’ can now meet time-pressed, on-the go and digitally connected consumers during their entire retail cycle of stepping into the store to the checkout. Currently, cloud applications are effective tools for retailers to build capabilities fast enough to hold the attention of consumers. Read More…
Achieving competitive advantage in Retail with Cloud
December 24, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Utilizing applications on the Cloud is the latest buzz across industries and has compelled retailers to evaluate the potential of the cloud to capitalize on the benefits that it offers.
Enterprise LARGE or SMALL are moving quickly to adopt cloud based applications & services that could enhance their competitive landscape.
Retailers have recognized the cloud’s ability to increase business speed & agility, lower costs, enable new means of growth, innovation, and collaboration as the drivers for its aggressive rate of adoption.
The infographic below shares some very interesting statistics that will help retailers extend their business value and advantage, including faster time to market, lower cost of operations and ability to focus on core business.
PT Putra Gemilang streamlines their Retail operations for increased profitability by adopting iVend Retail and SAP Business One
December 3, 2014 by Leave a Comment
COMPANY : PT Putra Gemilang Prima
Country: Indonesia
Industry : Building Material
Only a few modern retail stores in Indonesia selling building materials place their customer’s comfort and shopping convenience as top priority. Our customer Gemilang group were always focused on creating great buying experiences and hence engage with customers. Gemilang group were innovators to bring the concept of convenience retailing among hardware vendors, and industry known for rugged retailing.
Established in 1975 in Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan, Gemilang’s outlets always stand out among competition with their customers speaking positive about them. Gemilang’s objective has been to make shopping convenient for customers. Each of their outlet is conceptualized with availability and access to an ATM center, minimarket, coffee shop and food stall and a kids play ground, so that children could engage in play activities while their parent’s shop.
Challenges
Mr. Arya Iwanputra, owner of Putra Gemilang Prima, considers IT as the most crucial department in his enterprise. Gemilang group had aggressive expansion plans and wanted adequate inventory planning and resource optimization. To support their plans company needed a reliable and scalable IT system with automated business processes. Management at Gemilang wanted deeper strategic insights from their retail system for optimally managing inventory and purchase at their retail stores. However, Gemilang’s existing system was unable to deliver expected results to match with the company’s growth.
Solution
iVend Retail, iVend Loyalty with SAP Business One
Benefits :
- Reliable functionality and easy to use interface
- Integrated Data Management
- Faster decision making process
- On-time data and report availability
- Better understanding of customer buying preferences
- Efficient accounting & finance
- Improved analysis and control
“Our system was primitive and could not accommodate our growth, a simple process such as report generation would consume enormous manual effort and had to be reprocessed again and again to derive metrics”
Arya Iwanputra, Owner of Putra Gemilang Prima
CitiXsys November Newsletter 2014
December 3, 2014 by Leave a Comment
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