By simonl on 21 February, 2012
- Cross functional collaboration at head office
- Accurate cost calculation to implement retail projects
- Store specific online trading plan
Right first time execution of in-store activities such as promotions, range and layout changes are essential in order to gain maximum benefit from marketing, advertising spend and realising increased sales.
All too often complex projects involving many head office departments fail to be delivered to store accurately and on time, due to lack of collaboration or proactive and timely management of issues further upstream. Traditional tools such as spreadsheets and emails are still being used with limited benefit to manage these processes. Continue reading “Right first time delivery of store projects & better exit planning”
Posted in Latest News, Trading Director | Tagged Solutions, Trading Director |
By simonl on 24 January, 2012
What is it?
Most, if not all retailers have a regular review process for their stores from an operational standards perspective. Typically carried out by Field Management or Audit teams, these visits and reviews cover the principle elements of operations in-store such as Standards, Visual Merchandising, Stock and Security, Training and People Management to name a few.
Continue reading “Field management visits completed online”
Posted in Latest News, Process Director, Solutions, Store Visits | Tagged Process Director, Solutions |
By simonl on 18 January, 2012
What is it?
RMS’s capability to integrate with your eCommerce website to manage process and increase sales.
How can we use it?
- Click and Collect
- Sales leads direct to store
- Personal shopper/resource booking to name a few
Continue reading “Click and Collect — Supporting process and increasing sales”
Posted in Latest News, Process Director, Solutions | Tagged Click and Collect, eCommerce, Process Director, Solutions |
By simonl on 16 January, 2012
We recently kicked off our latest project with the German retailer – Gries Deco. Base near Frankfurt Gries Deco has been operating as a company for over 80 years and are now nearly 250 stores and concessions in Germany, Switzerland and Austria trading under the brand DEPOT.
This is one of the fastest growing retailers in Germany with a staggering average yearly growth of 30% since 2006 and it’s not hard to see why, the store I visited near the head office in Niedernburg was impressive. If I could compare it to a style or retail offering in the UK it would be a designer/cool – Dunelm/Habitat. Continue reading “Innovative visual merchandising by Gries Deco creates success for their DEPOT stores”
Posted in Customers, Gries Deco Company, Latest News | Tagged Customers, Solutions |
By sarahl on 10 January, 2012
In our latest eBook we share some of the ways our customers have achieved the retail business nirvana of sales up and costs down.
Find out how our customers:
Posted in eBooks, Latest News, Solutions | Tagged eBooks, eCommerce, PoS |
By jimc on 5 January, 2012
‘Home knitted’ solutions
Only Governments and fools…………………..
It amazes me that some retailers still persist in the ancient art of software development in an age where every single business process has been coded. Not only is it supreme arrogance that any retailer can compete with dedicated software companies (yes, we are one), but also that the result is always the same – snapshot mimicking of existing paper process with little measurable business benefit. Think of it this way – tiny uncoordinated steps to oblivion. Continue reading “Is this the end for in-house software development?”
Posted in General, Latest News, Solutions | Tagged Software Development |
By simonl on 4 January, 2012
RMS and PortivITy are delighted to announce the signing of the German retailer – Gries Deco Company. Trading under the brand Depot, Gries Deco has over 250 branches, mostly in Germany but also in Austria and Switzerland.
The Depot brand offers a unique mix of contemporary home furnishings and decorations and has realised significant growth in the last 5 years. Continue reading “RMS partner with PortivITy to give German retailer ‘Depot’ Operations Director”
Posted in Customers, Gries Deco Company, Latest News, Portivity, Solutions | Tagged Customers, Operations Director, Partners, Portivity, Solutions |
By jimc on 6 December, 2011
How chilling to see the dreadful publicity collected by the big four supermarkets in BBC’s Panorama program on Monday 5th December 2011.
Having collectively spent billions of pounds creating, building and maintaining their brands the program will have undoubtedly have left their customers feeling cheated and distrusting.
There is no doubt that a large majority of the errors shown were just down to poor ticketing rather than deliberate intent. This must make the pain being felt in boardrooms across the country even more intense. Continue reading “Poor ticketing by the Big Four”
Posted in General, Latest News, Print Controller | Tagged Print Controller, Solutions |
