Success in today’s competitive and dynamic business environment requ-ires swift decision making based on reliable knowledge, entailed actions with minimal operational delays, and continuous measurements to keep organizational performance aligned with the strategic goals.

As a strategic partner, Visionet delivers end-to-end cutting edge information technology services and solutions to help retail businesses achieve these objectives; thus leading to drastic operational efficiencies, higher profit-ability and growth.

Closed loop organizational performance management offers tremendous rewards. It essentially provides businesses with the ability to thrive under constant pressure along with a leading edge over competitors through successful execution of corporate strategy with operational excellence.

Yet, for any business endeavoring to reap these benefits – especially those dealing with a large and diverse sum of inventories, supply chain management, and multi channel sales – continuous performance optimization is extremely complex to execute without integrating the process, the right set of information technology tools specifically built for the need, and the lightening fast discovery and utilization of useful knowledge.

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Business challenges

Collectively, these factors work as negative catalysts leading to sales and inventory imbalance, lost sales opportunities, and incurring higher inventory carrying cost. Hence, the organization's net profitability is directly affected.

Situation Analysis

Typically, inadequate and late, preventing the organization from taking substantial, timely advantage of the available data

Ineffective Knowledge Discovery

Lack of automated analytical tools and sheer volume of POS/ transactional data hampers an organization's ability to discern emerging patterns. Thus, valuable knowledge remains obscure to decision makers.

Centralized View

Typically, IT infrastructure in organizations is spread among disparate systems making it extremely hard and labor intensive to develop process centric performance measurements through traditional means.

Measurements & Organizational Goals

Key decision makers may have access to numerous reports and KPI's (Key Performance Indicators). However, these Performance measurements are not always aligned with the organizational goals.

Cross Functional Visibility

Limited information affects collaboration between suppliers, retailers, and within the organization. This is primarily due to the lack of access to Point of Sales (POS), orders, logistics and forecast data.

Business Intelligence tools do provide insight to users, but all the knowledge is not translated into actionable items; thus resulting in various operational issues and loss of valuable time.

Intelligence & Actions Gap

For over a decade, Visionet has been helping clients get around these problems by establishing a proactive, process-driven, and intelligent IT infrastructure. Our solutions are based on integrating state-of-the-art business intelligence, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), and workflow technologies into your IT infrastructure that leverage your existing software assets, so you do not have to bear the reimplementation costs.

How Visionet can help?

Provides executives and decision makers at all levels with the critical measurements regarding business performance. Various features of the dashboards include:

Our Solutions

Visionet’s Retail Performance Management solutions essentially involve consolidation of data from various sources, querying, analysis of the data, KPI’s and putting the results into closed loop practices.

Downstream Data Analytics

Downstream Point of Sales (POS) and supply/demand transactional data has tremendous value and is effectively utilized to improve and expedite the decision making process in many areas including forecasting, inventory management, and various other operational matters.

Demand pattern identificationMarkdown optimizationOptimal Size scale distribution by product category, region, store, and productContinuous forecasting adjustmentsProduct Category management, and promotion analysisConsumer acceptance trend identification by products and suppliers

Hierarchical reporting structure and secure multi level views Options for comparative analysis based on year-to-date, month-to-date and season-to-date measurementsSupport for standard as well as fiscal calendarsEasy to visualize through charts, graphs, and intuitive navigationNumerous financial and operational KPI’s

Provides a single view of supply and demand by taking into account current inventory levels, open purchase orders, and demand forecastingPeriodic shortage/overage predictionsHelps reduce inventory carrying costs and missed sales opportunities

Sales and Operations Planning Workbench

Comprehensive Retail Performance Reporting and Executive Dashboards

Innovative Information Technology Services

OLAP Repository

ERP

Divisional Controller

KPI/Charts Dashboard Reports

Store Manager Analysts

Business Users

Analytics Engine

Rules Repository

ActionsAlertsNotifications

Point of Sales

Task & Exception Handling

Store Inventory TransferPromotion LaunchPrice AdjustmentsMarkdowns

Order CancellationsAutomatic ReplenishmentDrawdown Orders of High Sell ItemsForecast Update

Workflow &Task Management

ERP Updates

Transactions

Manual Tasks & AlertsBot Queue (Automated Tasks)

- Sophisticated Analytics- Geared Towards Automation- Workflow Driven Process Management

Closing the Loop between Analytics and Operations through Automation

Manual practices create a lack of process standardization, overall slow reaction time, and inconsistent action plans resulting in unpredictability and lost revenue.

Automated store order adjustments based on rules, inventory position, and forecastQuick response replenishmentContinuous sales forecast updatesOrder cancellation recommendations based on sales trendsAutomated POS audits

Integrated Rules and Task Management Solutions

Divisional rules with Alerts / notificationsWorkflow driven task management for repetitive operational activitiesAuto generated tasks, alerts, and notifications

Business Benefits

About Visionet Systems

Visionet is a global information technology service provider that has delivered cutting edge solutions for over a decade. Our best-in-class solutions and services span Apparel & Footwear, Multi -Channel Retail, and Wholesale businesses. Our innovative solutions include Integrated Business Planning, Collaborative Sales Planning, Business Intelligence, Sales and Operations Planning, Supply & Demand Management, Retail, Merchandizing, and Data warehousing.

Reduced out of stock and overstock situations as well as improved replenishment accuracyTimely identification of trends for efficiently accomm-odating varying needsMinimize reaction time and gain a leading edge in volatile market conditionsKeep forecast aligned with changing realities taking into account the latest trends emerging during the sales cycleLeverage existing assets and reduce IT costs

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