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Merchandising and supply chain solution for retail from IBM
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| Deliver a truly customer-focused shopping experience
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Fierce competition, demanding consumers, new routes to market and globalization are causing retailers to rethink their approach to merchandising and supply chain. IBM can help you align your merchandising and supply chain to enable a more integrated, profitable, customer-focused enterprise. Enable your merchants to plan and buy to maximize profitability. Provide customer-specific assortments, allocations and pricing. Rapidly establish operations in new markets. Implement sourcing and distribution strategies tailored to your product offerings.
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| Integrate to innovate
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Transform your merchandising and supply chain to better meet the needs of your customer base and drive profitable revenue growth. Transition from a siloed business model to one founded on a fully integrated and optimized network. The merchandising and supply chain solution from IBM provides a suite of services, software and hardware offerings designed to help you:
- Deploy a fully integrated organization—including processes, systems, metrics and organizational structure.
- Use systems and analytics to deliver timely information-based decision making throughout your organization.
- Align product and service offerings with actual customer demand, by store and specific customer segment.
- Tailor your merchandising and supply chain operations and systems to establish effective and efficient paths to market that meet the unique needs of different products, customer segments and markets.
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| Drive down costs and exceed customer expectations
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The merchandising and supply chain solution for retail from IBM can help you better understand your customers, allowing you to anticipate and meet their demands. We can help you prioritize and align your merchandising and supply chain processes, which can enable:
- Near real-time visibility
- Efficient and cost-effective product management
- Improved inventory turns
- Optimized pricing and margins
- Increased sales and profitability
IBM business, technical and integration knowledge and expertise can more rapidly deliver increased business value while reducing risk and costs. You can benefit from:
- Experienced, knowledgeable retail, merchandising and supply chain professionals.
- Proven global implementation methods that match industry-leading retail software packages with your specific needs and leverage a set of predefined delivery accelerators to reduce risk, time and cost.
- Our investments in research and development—such as RFID and retail commerce standards—that help you exploit new technologies.
- Flexible financial options such as project financing and on-demand hosting models that allow you to unlock additional benefits sooner and help you achieve your financial goals.
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