Getting Agile and Growing Profitably
Retailers often struggle with operational visibility because of a large number of transactions and touch points. It’s critical to be able to effectively read customer behaviour, identify product and service demands and accurately plan sourcing, procurement, supply chain, assortment and day-to-day channel operations. At the same time you will need to provide business leaders and managers up to date and accurate performance information, with a particular need to view highly detailed information to transaction level detail, on demand.
Inside Info works with many retail clients on a large scale that we’ve designed and delivered business intelligence solutions for including FoodWorks, Apparel Group and Fantastic. We’ve developed a proven best-practice business intelligence application based on our experience called the Inside Retail Dashboard. Using this dashboard we help retailers in a matter of weeks to provide a consolidated view of performance in one on-demand dashboard bringing together internal and external data sources to deliver detailed analysis of product, financials, customers and stores all against budget. The results have been improved performance within regions and companies as a whole.
The Inside Retail Dashboard is a proven best-practice business intelligence application developed by our consultants that we find will account for 80% of what a retailer would typically want. The result significantly fast tracks BI projects leveraging off the best practice of others. Customers are typically up and running in 30 days and receiving an extraordinarily sophisticated interactive analysis capability that is highly visual, affordable, fast to deploy, simple to use, and easy to change. We work with retailers to provide:
- A one-screen view of all the facts: Ensuring cross functional visibility, integrating customer and business data so you have a clear view of sales, stock, customer, employee, store/channel and financial performance.
- A 360 degree view of customer behaviour: Gives ability to react quickly to changing customer trends, pre-empt demand, optimise stock management and better track promotional effectiveness.
- Demand-driven supply chains: To ensure stock really does end up in the right store at the right time, so that first margins are optimised and wastage is minimised.
- Ability to optimise store operations: You can equip your staff to focus on critical areas such as service levels and customer satisfaction at the store level – empowering them to improve customer retention and long-term growth.
- On-demand, highly visual self-serve retail analysis instead of out-of-date reports. The Inside Retail Dashboard can replace hundreds of OLAP based reports.
- Sub-second query response on very large data volumes into the hundreds of million records without losing transactional level detail, with data refreshing as often as your underlying source systems.
- Simple to use, available everywhere: Interactive analysis for all with one or two clicks - from the CEO to the merchandiser to the store manager available on your laptop, the web or your mobile via your server.
For more information download the Inside Retail Dashboard sheet.
Inside Info works with many retail clients on a large scale that we’ve designed and delivered business intelligence solutions for including FoodWorks, Apparel Group and Fantastic. We help retailers in a matter of weeks to provide a consolidated view of performance in one on-demand dashboard bringing together internal and external data sources to deliver detailed analysis of product, financials, customers and stores all against budget. The results have been improved performance within regions and companies as a whole.
Globally there are over 1,000 retail and distribution companies using QlikView.
Apparel Group, home to the iconic Saba and Sportscraft brands, builds greater intelligence into its business and store performance with Inside Info. Based on the Inside Retail Dashboard, Inside Info replaced Apparel’s Retail Business Analysis reporting suite with two interactive analysis dashboards for Sales & Stock for head office and its stores, rolled out to over 300 users in 35 days.
“From concept to go-live it took 35 days to implement our sales and stock applications, providing a platform for future growth. Inside Info understood QlikView and understood what Apparel Group was trying to achieve. The implementation was a complete success.”
Peter Ratcliffe, GM of Emerging Technology, Apparel Group
