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Real-time visibility of your retail business operations enables you to forecast, manage, and respond more profitably

Do you have the right product and quantity? What's selling and why? What new products are in demand? Don't let your existing technology stand between you and profits. Software AG helps you break down the barriers so you can get closer to your customer and closer to your cost-efficiency goals.

In fact, our Business Infrastructure Software is helping 70% of the AMR Research Supply Chain Top 25 to outperform their competition. These organizations are achieving end-to-end, real-time visibility and control across their operations. They are now able to pinpoint problems in minutes rather than days, and can measure the Key Performance Indicators that are most important to them.

Achieve business results faster with Software AG

Improve efficiency with real-time decision-making for store integration - Our webMethods product suite gives you capabilities for demand sensing and real-time response to streamline your supply chain and reduce labor costs.
Optimize profit by preventing out-of-stocks and overstocks - You’ll receive demand signals initiated at the point of sale in each store, and can automatically pass that data to suppliers (trading partners) across the Internet. Detect and react to changes in demand to optimize your inventory levels.
Make faster and more accurate decisions - Our Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) captures demand signals and correlates them in real time against your Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) allowing you to make profitable decisions.
Get greater ROI from your current supply chain investments - Your supply chain applications are inefficient without accurate, consistent product and sales information. We eliminate data inconsistencies so that all systems, and trading partners, are literally “on the same page.”
Improve cost efficiency of business operations - We provide a single platform that spans all of your B2B systems, information and communications. You'll see real-time statistics on how your overall operations are running, and immediately detect and correct stuck orders and service level problems.
Leverage your existing IT assets with SOA-based integration - Integrate your internal and external systems, and convert your existing IT assets into components that can be re-used again and again -- all without a drain on your IT resources.

Our Retail solutions utilize the Software AG Business Infrastructure Suite, enabling organizations to achieve business results – faster. Learn More.

Recommended Next Steps

Let Software AG help you gain real-time visibility of your retail value chain. For more information, please contact retail@softwareag.com.

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White Paper "Order-to-Cash"
"Using an Order-to-Cash Process Framework to improve your Supply Chain Performance

White Paper "New Product Introduction"
"Improve Time to Value with a New Product Introduction Process Framework"

White Paper "Procure-to-Pay"
"Using a Procure-to-Pay Process Framework to improve your Financial Supply Chain"

White Paper: Product Recall
"Improve Retail Operations Efficiency with Software AG's Product Recall Process Framework"

Podcasts

Using an Order-to-Cash Process Framework to Improve Your Supply Chain Performance (10:17)
Benchmark data confirms that improving the performance of the order-to-cash process translates to competitive advantage for your company.

Increase Retail Operations Efficiency with a Product Recall Process Framework (10:50)
Stalled or failed product recalls impact consumer safety and can cost retailers millions of dollars in sales, and loss of customers and company reputation.

Achieving a Demand Driven Supply Chain
"All manufacturing organizations are trying to become demand driven. It is how they manage demand, and the mechanism for responding to demand that is very different."
Read the latest research from AMR on the performance characteristics and tools for a demand driven supply chain.

DDSN for Discrete Organizations, Part 1: The Risk and Complexity Is Different (PDF 282kb)
DDSN for Discrete Organizations, Part 2: S&OP and Forecasting (PDF 437kb)