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Merchandising and supply chain solution from IBM and SAP
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| Product. Placement. Price. Promotion.
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Meet the expectations of your customers by providing the right product in the right place at the right price to meet demand. Leverage up-to-date integrated consumer data collaboratively with your suppliers to enable real-time planning down to the store level. IBM builds upon the SAP for Retail set of solutions with a portfolio of merchandising solutions to help your retail company develop a dynamic, integrated and collaborative value chain that can sense changes in customer demand and respond throughout the value chain.
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| Why IBM and SAP?
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For almost 30 years, IBM and SAP have been global alliance partners. Together, we deliver a compelling and comprehensive value proposition and a set of solutions and services that can help you enable business strategy, achieve visibility and connectivity throughout the enterprise, optimize operations, and protect current and future IT investments. Between the two companies, you have at your resource intellectual capital and best-practice offerings from two of the leading retail services providers in the industry. -
IBM has 30 years of experience in the retail industry, allowing you to leverage the experience of 4,400 consultants dedicated to consumer-focused industries.
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IBM Global Services has the world’s largest practice dedicated to implementing, running and maintaining SAP solutions.
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IBM servers and storage products, the world’s leading database, plus a comprehensive software offering offer a robust, carefully aligned infrastructure for your retail operations.
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IBM Global Financing offers flexible financing options.
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SAP employs more than 34,000 people in more than 50 countries and is one of the world’s largest independent software suppliers.
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| Reduce inventory levels with better planning and sourcing
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Transform inflexible, inaccurate, unresponsive merchandising and supply chain processes by leveraging real-time customer and supplier data across the entire value chain. The merchandising and supply chain solution from IBM and SAP can help create a superior customer experience and increase loyalty, while improving operating costs and gross margins. Our solution is designed to help planning based on real-time collaborative data throughout the supply chain. -
Meet consumer needs and differentiate your brand from the competition with the best product selection and a unique brand proposition.
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Help ensure that there is sufficient inventory held in your distribution network to fulfill customer demand and promotional activity.
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Store and ship the product in the most cost-effective manner, while maintaining good service levels, and without carrying excess inventory.
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Commission, operate and manage distribution centers and transport fleets cost-effectively.
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Provide product availability and optimized inventory levels to minimize waste.
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Display products in the correct place in the store, with the right price labels and advertising materials.
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Help ensure that you always have enough stock to meet consumer demand.
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| Fossil works with IBM and SAP to achieve success
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Fossil, Inc. wanted technology partners that were financially strong and strategically committed to its business needs in order to avoid the headaches associated with making a migration to another system in two or three years’ time. Fossil choose IBM and SAP. With the new, integrated SAP system, Fossil has achieved: -
A consolidated view of global sales across complex organizational and channel structure.
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A clear view of total inventory throughout extended supply chain.
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A lower cost of management for solution, high flexibility and scalability.
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The potential to accelerate time-to-market for new products, for better customer service and reduced inventory.
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| Cut cost, improve revenue and boost customer loyalty
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Stay competitive and grow profitably by responding to market changes more quickly and realizing the financial advantages of optimized merchandising and supply chain capabilities. We can help you: -
Ensure higher product availability in the store while reducing overall inventory levels.
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Reduce the cost of sourcing, warehousing and transporting merchandise.
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Increase revenues by delivering the right products to the right channel through improved forecasting and demand intelligence.
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Improve margins through initial price optimization and reduced markdown activity.
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Questions about this solution? Contact an IBM-SAP specialist.
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