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Retail Core Systems
A global grasp of inventory management
Creating new shopping experiences and decreasing costs – to master this balancing act retail needs industry-specific, integrated inventory management systems.
Facts & figures
- In addition to inventory management projects, hardware consolidation projects dominate the investment behavior of retail companies in German-speaking countries. (Surveys conducted by the EHI Retail Institute of decision-makers in German-speaking countries in 2009).
- The IT budgets of the largest retail companies in German-speaking countries remain stable. They make up about 1% of the gross revenue (according to the “IT Investments in the Retail Industry in 2009” study conducted by the EHI Retail Institute).
Point of sale, headquarters and suppliers: Collaboration between these three worlds is something on which retail must have a global grasp. This is the only way large retailers can decrease costs and simultaneously fulfill new demands by consumers such as shopping via cell phone. Inventory management systems that manage data streams and financial transactions and depict all the core processes of the retail industry are the foundation for this. As a certified Global Services Partner of
SAPSAP
SAP AG is a leading global provider of business software.
, T-Systems offers Retail Core Systems based on “SAP for Retail.” The solutions suite provides support for sales management as well as sales, product line and branch planning. Cutting costs through consolidation
Many retail companies still use a variety of
ITIT (= Information Technology)
Information Technology (IT) is a collective term for information and data processing and the hardware and software used for this purpose.
systems – partly due to mergers, partly due to previous in-house developments. Therefore, T-Systems’ services in the area of Retail Core Systems include transferring this heterogeneous IT into a standardized SAP landscape. Thanks to this transformational outsourcing the number of interfaces is decreased significantly and the more streamlined systems are able to process the daily data volumes more quickly. The result is improved processes and a decrease in IT costs by about 25%. Other products T-Systems offers in the “Retail Core Systems” area are supply chain management solutions, which map the entire logistics chain and improve cross-border cooperation with suppliers and the various locations. Companies such as apparel manufacturer Gerry Weber are already using
RFIDRFID
Radio Frequency Identification technology is employed to remotely retrieve information using radio waves An RFID system comprises a transponder and a data reader. A transponder receives incoming signals and automatically responds to them. In conjunction with RFID, transponders are known as tags, which can be active or passive. Tags are affixed to an object in such a way that the information stored on them can be retrieved remotely. Tagged objects can be unambiguously identified.
radio chips for product security at their branches. By doing so Gerry Weber is increasing transparency, minimizing loss of goods and ensuring the best possible capacity utilization of shelves and increased product availability. 
