As your business continues to expand, it is critical to adopt a retail solution that is scalable, integrated, available, mobile, and secure.
The Retail Pro® POS and store management platform and SAP Business One® ERP software are designed with change and growth in mind.
The integrated solution allows you to tailor and customize your software to support your changing needs.
You can lock down critical preferences and security settings across stores, while still allowing individual locations to modify their key details with easy-to-use personalization tools.
An integrated solution like Retail Pro and SAP Business One will give you innovative ways to reach new customers, maximize efficiency, and drive profitable growth – and will keep growing with you as you grow.
Want to see how Retail Pro and SAP Business One can help you grow?
The first step toward unified commerce is to integrate the data from every store, channel, and device so you get one complete view of what’s happening in your enterprise.
The Retail Pro POS and store management platform has an open API so it plays nicely with all the other retail technologies you use as part of your strategy, like eCommerce, vendor dropship, loyalty, Business Intelligence.
When used in tandem with enterprise resource planning software like SAP Business One, this powerful solution enables you to streamline in-store and head office operations and technologies by seamlessly integrating key business processes into a single, unified system.
With data shared seamlessly across your retail tools, you get more complete omnichannel visibility, which means you can make smarter, more informed decisions to optimize your inventory, employees, and customer engagement efforts.
Visit our website today to learn more about how you can unify commerce with Retail Pro and SAP Business One.
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Getting a single, 360° view of your customers and stock performance from your retail POS is crucial and retailors are thinking through integration of mPOS with ePOS for greater flexibility and data unity.
Retail Pro POS is a single, device-agnostic software that gives you robust functionality on both ePOS and mPOS – so you get integrated store data without sacrificing flexibility on the sales floor.
When used in conjunction with our expert local support and solutions partners, you get total visibility across your organization.
Grow your brand across regions and countries with localizations for any world language, currency, and tax structure
Automatically replenish and manage stock between locations for higher inventory turn
Complete transactions anywhere on the sales floor with mobile POS and flexible mobile or fixed payments systems
Get creative and increase average customer spend with promotions that keep shoppers coming back
Save on hardware and training costs with user-friendly mobile POS available on Apple, Windows, or Android devices
Engage shoppers and upsell more effectively with access to customer history from the mobile POS
Get them into your customers’ hands faster – by integrating all your retail software for end-to-end visibility into customer information and stock performance that helps you improve speed-to-market in your production cycles.
Dedagroup Stealth Retail ERP provides luxury and fashion retailors with a modern technology platform that enables them to run an efficient, responsive and profitable omnichannel business, built on insights about their customers’ needs.
But many European retailors today still struggle from a lack of visibility due to unintegrated technologies and scattered retail and customer data along their channels, which are foundational for omnichannel.
On 2 – 3 May, visit us at RBTE stand H-150 to see how with Retail Pro and our partners you can get end-to-end integration of your mission-critical retail software to unify your operations and secure all your retail data for GDPR compliance.
Improve efficiency with customizable workflows in the powerful Retail Pro POS
As a payment provider operating in various European countries, there is one key learning we drew from over three decades of experience in the industry: it is not primarily technology that drives digital evolution, but culture and the people forming it.
Technological innovations are pointless if consumers are not willing or able to accept and make use of them.
The payment industry is a prime example of this phenomenon.
Comparing the German market with the payment-ecosystem in the UK, observers will notice that most German consumers mainly pay in cash for their goods. Their British counterparts, however, are keen to experiment with innovative payment methods like contactless or mobile payments.
Their eagerness to adopt technological advances gives them the benefits of cashless payments such as security, costs and reduced effort compared to cash handling.
If our goal is to drive digital innovation and thereby business evolution, we need to analyse the reasons for people’s hesitation or distrust concerning new payment solutions — in every market, for each segment.
These insights are what enable us to develop both standardised and individual solutions on relevant devices and across all channels in line with regional customer’s requirements.
Starting from the inside, with a payment infrastructure which is standardised across nearly all of Europe, we work our way to the outside to develop the best possible solutions.
We solve retailers’ challenges by providing standardised products applicable to entire national markets, by implementing national relevant payment methods and technologies.
In addition, we help customers with their unique needs, by digging into specific business processes and sectoral needs.
In doing so we take into account one basic concept: We do business for people – suitable technology is our instrument to meet their needs.
Our integration with Retail Pro provides the customer-centric end-to-end driver that facilitates a lean transaction process and effortless consumer experience to spearhead repeat business.
Amalgamated reporting and reduction of double input from the cashier ensures user confidence, which helps enhance the checkout experience.
Come and see us at RBTE on Stand H150 to discuss this and other topics of high importance for your business.
BS PAYONE GmbH is headquartered in Frankfurt am Main and is one of the leading omnichannel-payment providers in Europe. In addition to providing customer support to numerous Savings Banks (Sparkasse) the full-service payment service provider also provides cashless payment transaction services to more than 255,000 customers from stationary trade to the automated and holistic processing of e-commerce and mobile payments.
Seamless Middle East 2018, was hosted last week at Dubai International Convention Centre, bringing together the industry’s leaders in commerce, fintech, retail and payments at the Middle East’s most inspiring summit and technology exhibition.
H.H. Lt. General Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior inaugurated the show, where over 350 global players and entrepreneurs showcased their latest products and solutions.
Technologies included the market’s top players in mobile POS, inventory management, mobile payments, and analytics, as well as digital marketing with omnichannel retailing, blockchain and AI.
Speaker sessions featured discussion on Middle East retail’s current trends and key opportunities, including the latest technologies for creating seamless omnichannel customer experiences.
Consumer expectations for their shopping experiences have shifted significantly toward convenience – shopping with retailers on their own terms. So retailers are acting fast to adapt operations and adopt modern technologies that will help them launch their customers experience strategy innovations.
One of the biggest retail players exhibiting at the show, Retail Pro International, showcased its globally proven and completely localized, flexible mobile and desktop POS and inventory management software.
Retail Pro International was joined by some of its expert support partners from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and UAE – Inditech, Retail Technologies, Retail Information Systems, and Crystal Mind. Together with solutions partners Xretail omnichannel platform, Qwikcilver gift cards, and Darwin fashion retail planning, Retail Pro International made a strong case for the end-to-end retail offering.
“We are pleased to have been serving serious retailers with the complete Retail Pro software platform, which is built on 30 years’ experience in specialty retail, and designed specifically for their needs,” commented Retail Pro International CEO, Kerry Lemos. “We know retail, and we specialize in it to help retailers achieve their operational and customer experience strategies. We have been partnering with retailers across the region for many years and are proud to say that the emergence of mobility and unified commerce in the Arab world is well supported by Retail Pro.”
Today, 9000 special retailers – with over 450 based in the Middle East – use Retail Pro to improve efficiency in their store operations and add globally on-trend capabilities.
The POS software is adapted for local KPIs and market knowledge, making Retail Pro the go-to solution for top retailers in the Middle East.
With Retail Pro, retailers can create consistent, impactful customer experiences and improve efficiency at every store, as well as:
Achieve seamless omnichannel operations by integrating all their retail technologies with Retail Pro, including SAP and other ERPs, loyalty, marketing, accounting, payments, and any other software
Streamline IT management with one single software for mPOS and fixed POS, available on the retailer’s choice of iOS, Windows, and Android mobile, laptop, and desktop devices
Easily manage complex tax scenarios, as Retail Pro software already comes equipped with customizable settings for VAT methods and over 15 years of proven track record of supporting VAT, sliding tax, and other complex taxation methods prevalent across the globe
Get actionable data with real-time visibility into sales performance at all levels of business, whether single brand or multiple-concept franchising models
Increase sales and customer loyalty by issuing and tracking fully-integrated gift cards, gift certificates and store credit across the entire chain
And much more
“Middle East retail is quickly moving toward modernization, and top performers are choosing proven software to help them reach the next level – Retail Pro,” said Retail Pro International VP of EMEAA, Bevin Manian. “With our expert value-added resellers supporting retailers’ technology needs, Middle East retail is well-positioned to build their exact strategy and achieve growth.”
Enterprise retailers like Al-Haddad, Robinsons, Puma, Under Armour, MUJI, Pepe Jeans, and Adidas – to name a few – are all building their unique retail strategies on the robust Retail Pro platform.
Scott Emmons of Neiman Marcus testified to greater progress once the Business Ops and IT teams became more intentional about collaboration in the ideation and planning phases.
“We had to break out of that [approach of] sitting around waiting for business to come up with lots of ideas that we couldn’t execute on,” Emmons said.
Cross-departmental communication between the business and IT teams opens the path to creating more efficient and effective solutions to bottlenecks and challenges faced on the sales floor.
Armed with a better internal understanding of needs, retailers can evaluate software solutions to find the best fit, whether an all-in-one solution or best of breed.
Some retailers are looking for a turnkey solution that will enable them to get the job done without much thought and customization.
Others are executing a more complex strategy or have unique business challenges and want best of breed solutions that will enable them to build out their exact strategy.
The ultimate consensus: tech needs to solve real business challenges, and the retail team needs to be clear on the challenges they’re trying to solve.
The more specific your challenge, the more tailored your software must be to meet that need – and the more you need to work closely with your technology partners. Retailers are making technology choices for the long term, choosing technology partners with expertise and flexibility to help them scale.
The Hershey Company’s Brian Kavanagh, senior director of insights driven performance and retail evolution, commented in an NRF session on the importance of tech companies understandingwhat is unique about each retailer’s brand proposition and how they approach the market.
This conversation made its way back onto the Expo floor, where technology providers, including yours truly, showcased their solutions and met with retailers to hear their needs.
From left: Kevin Connor, Mike Bishop, Ket Venethongkham, Rick Fuentes, Kerry Lemos.
Kavanagh reminded audiences of the bottom line for retail technology choices: sales.
“Enhancing the customer experience is important to physical retailers, but more important is converting foot traffic into sales,” he said.
One retail expert pointed out, “Of the 174 million shoppers over the five-day holiday period post-Thanksgiving, the omnichannel shopper spent, on average, $82 more than an online-only shopper and $49 more than an in-store only shopper.”
Findings from NRF’s Consumer View report, discussed in a panel featuring IBM, showed most shoppers (73% for stores, 54% for online) come with purchase intent toward a particular item, rather than just browsing. 58% ranked ease in getting what they need as their top factor for determining where to shop.
Source: NRF
Levi’s President James ‘JC’ Curleigh spoke to this culmination of technology, experience, and sales in his session at NRF:
Let’s be simple. In a world of difficult decisions picking out your favorite pair of jeans should not be one of them. We need to put you on a simplified course to either keep you in Levi’s or introduce you to Levi’s in a simple way. To deliver that simplicity, we have to take a level of sophistication – in our supply chain, in how we show up in retail, and in productivity solutions so we can continue create that simple frontside of your favorite pair of jeans but delivered in a more sophisticated way than ever before. Simple in the front, sophisticated in the back.
Retailers optimizing their technology to increase shopping convenience across channels are making progress in both customer experience and sales.
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