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		Retail Solutions

		Master Information Suite
		Retail Analytics Suite
		Retail Execution Suite
		Retail Collaboration Suite
		Merchandising Business Suite
		Supply Operation Suite
		Info Suite


Retail Solutions

In this global competitive market, retailers are demanding information system solutions which provide high degrees of reactivity, flexibility and consistency. Additionally, speed to market with the right products, at the right price and time, is critical to increasing market share and bottom-line performance. Soft Solutions is a leading provider of fully integrated decision-support merchandising and marketing solutions for multi-divisional, multi-format retailers of food and fast-moving consumer goods worldwide. For almost two decades, Soft Solutions has helped major retailers enhance business performance, respond to changing consumer needs and pro-act or react to evolving competition.

The Soft Solutions Suite is the only fully-integrated web-based enterprise suite for retail merchandising and marketing execution that has been proven in complex, leading Tier 1 retailers, such as Carrefour and Auchan. Conforming to global industry and technology development standards with a comprehensive data management foundation, the Suite consists of the following six components:

- Retail - MDM ibs REFERENTIAL - Master Data Management
- Retail Business Suite
- Retail Collaboration Suite
- Retail Operations Suite
- Retail Consumer Analytics Suite
- Retail Execution Suite


Retail - MDM ibs REFERENTIAL - Master Data Management MDM - R, delivered by Soft Solutions' ibs REFERENTIAL, provides the "single version of the truth" of the retailer global data. It encompasses the full range of product, supplier, customer and retailer own organizational master data requirements. MDM - R incorporates the majority of requirements of all data necessary to support the merchandise and marketing processes of retailers.

Retail Business Suite (RBS) RBS delivers comprehensive capabilities to manage all aspects of consumer-focused merchandise and marketing processes. The Suite allows retailers to create, simulate, manage and monitor merchandising strategies and plans. The Suite contains:

ibs CATEGORY MANAGEMENT : delivering category management to set, monitor and update performance against objectives.
ibs DEALS : supporting for all aspects of vendor funds management and supplier negotiations.
ibs ASSORTMENT : planning the right product assortments to respond to evolving consumer demands.
ibs SPACE PLANNING : automating store space planning and planogram management based on merchandising rules.
ibs PRICING : managing and improving retailer's price image.
ibs PROMOTIONS : integrating the complete process of planning and executing effective promotional events.

Retail Collaboration Suite (RCS)
RCS delivers advanced solutions across all aspects of global retailer-supplier collaboration and communication. RCS includes the following applications:

ibs DATASYNC : manages data synchronization with external partners (GS1 certified).
ibs RFX : manages the retailer-supplier collaboration and negotiation.
ibs RSX : manages the exchange of data and services with external partner.

Retail Operations Suite
Provides store managers with a comprehensive decision-support dashboard, consolidating information necessary to effectively respond to consumer needs and competitive pressures. Based on the consistent R-MDM foundation delivered through ibs REFERENTIAL, Soft Solutions' Retail Operations Suite adapts to the specific needs of each store manager to optimize profitability, enhance efficiency, increase margins, reduce operational costs, stocks, and improve customer service.

Retail Analytics Suite
Provides merchandising demand multi-dimensional modeling for all items to support demand forecasting, price elasticity, price and assortment optimization, market basket analysis and store clustering. Increased forecast accuracy is achieved thanks to our dynamic demand model that takes into account product and product range complexities.

Retail Execution Suite
The Retail Execution Suite, also known as ibs KERNEL, provides tools for consistently and efficiently managing application security, report generation, screen and data translation, workflow and integration with external and legacy systems.

ibs SYSTEM : manages user security and permissions.
ibs WORKFLOW : automates daily activities and tasks, schedules and alerts based on performance metrics.
ibs REPORTING : supports reporting requirements, including ad hoc, across the Suite.
ibs INTEGRATION : provides tools to integrate Soft Solutions applications with existing installed applications.
ibs MULTI lANGUAGE : delivers multi-language and company-specific lexicon capabilities across the Suite.

The infrastructure applications can be used to support high-value capabilities such as supplier information services, supply-chain event management, and end-to-end promotion execution.