For more information about our Rapid Retail® services & solutions, please contact:

Robin Baughman
Manager, Marketing

Rapid Retail® is a solution, developed by CIBER, that will help you maximize the value from your SAP for Retail product suite more quickly, reducing time between project start and the realization of tangible business benefits. With Rapid Retail risks are mitigated and implementation cycles shortened, while adhering to retail best practices.

Enabling the Agile Retailer

Whether you’re in hardlines, fashion or grocery, you know that succeeding in today’s retail markets comes down to one word: agility. Only one SAP All-In-One Solution will give you that agility: Rapid Retail.

Rapid Retail delivers:

• A reliable, integrated and scalable solution to drive profit and increase competitiveness
• A pre-configured solution to respond to the demanding retail environment
• Critical retail business processes addressing the retail value chain
• Time and resource savings across your SAP for Retail implementation
• A template approach to deliver speed to value

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CIBER supports clients in the retail, AFS and consumer packaged goods (CPG) industries with their SAP applications and technology. With a worldwide client base that includes companies like adidas, Metro, Wolverine Worldwide and B & Q, CIBER has helped more than 60 SAP retail clients drive maximum value from their retail processes.

Our credentials include:

• 20 years of SAP experience and partnership
• A leading implementer of SAP Retail in North America, Europe and Asia
• Expertise in PCI Compliance / Qualified Security Assessor
• More than 1,300 SAP consulting resources
• More than 240 dedicated SAP retail consultants worldwide
• More than 60 implementations of SAP for Retail completed
• Special Expertise Partner – SAP for Retail
• Preferred Partner – SAP for Retail Mid-Market
• Certified SAP Global Outsourcing and Hosting Partner
• Leading implementer of SAP’s Apparel and Footwear Solution

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The Benefits of Rapid Retail

Reduced Implementation Cost
Faster cycles, a proven and documented methodology, pre-configuration and end-to-end accelerators all add up to reduced costs. CIBER has a track record of successfully leveraging Rapid Retail to reduce implementation time. Rapid Retail focuses on core business processes so clients are confident they are implementing the software that addresses their business needs. Our success in the retail space has prompted SAP to recognize CIBER as a Strategic Go-To-Market Partner in this industry.

Increased Speed to Value
Reduced implementation cycles bring business benefit to fruition faster. Additionally, we achieve greater levels of business benefit and financial rewards earlier in the process. Our proven approach and seasoned SAP Retail Consulting Team has demonstrated the ability to consistently implement SAP for Retail quickly, and allow our clients to enjoy the value of the SAP solution through significantly shortened implementation cycles.

Reduced Risk
Our rich experience and successful track record in mid-market retail has paved the way for consistent risk mitigation. Rapid Retail’s template-driven approach provides the retailer with flexibility, but tracks to SAP and industry best practices to help drive informed decisions and diminish scope creep. Rapid Retail is adaptable to each retailer’s unique situation. Our flexible methodology ensures that our template driven approach provides implementation efficiencies, but not at the expense of meeting our clients’ needs.

Lowered Total Cost of Ownership
One of our primary goals is to facilitate knowledge transfer throughout your implementation. After a project go-live we want the dependence on SAP and CIBER to fade. So, in addition to expedited implementation cycles, CIBER is focused on creating a self-sufficient client environment for every aspect of supporting your SAP for Retail applications.

Rapid Retail is not just software or a configuration; it is a retail business solution. Rapid Retail is an SAP implementation approach and toolkit that leverages our experience, knowledge and insights gained from more than 60 SAP retail implementation projects. With years of experience implementing ERP software within the retail industry, CIBER and SAP have developed tools, pre-configured scripts, methodologies and templates based on industry best practices. In addition, we support your implementation with consultants who have in-depth retail expertise to address your industry objectives and who know how to manage and resolve project challenges.

Developed for Today’s Retailer

Rapid Retail provides a unified model that integrates information across the enterprise – from multi-channel sales operations to merchandise management and assortment planning. Rapid Retail addresses retailers’ specific issues and priorities to provide end-to-end solutions that drive efficiencies across the retail value chain.

Rapid Retail Architecture: One Size Does Not Fit All

Rapid Retail has been designed to extend flexibility across various retail industry segments. We recognize the complexities that exist within key retail industries, and have developed Rapid Retail to support critical business processes across multiple retail industries. CIBER understands that each retailer has unique and specific requirements. Rapid Retail supports your individual needs so you can be ahead of the fast-moving competition.

Hardlines
Hardline retailers face commodity discounters on one end, and niche retailers at the other end. You need increased speed to deliver value for accommodating this spectrum and Rapid Retail delivers. Our proven solution addresses key business process from start to finish, driving sustainable advantage in a diverse landscape of competition. Key processes include:

• Efficient forecasting and replenishment
• Supply chain planning and execution
• Streamlined purchasing processes

Rapid Retail delivers a unified solution to address your unique challenges--vendor to customer, and at every stop along the way.

Fashion
Trends can appear seemingly overnight, and the fashion retailer has to be agile. Rapid Retail helps you manage the complete fashion lifecycle with proven, end-to-end support for the fashion industry. Rapid Retail is tailored to meet the unique needs of the fashion industry and can be deployed rapidly enabling a fast return on investment. Rapid Retail helps you increase competitiveness by addressing key fashion retail business processes including:

• Seasonality Management
• Multi-Channel Retailing
• Merchandise and Assortment Planning

SAP solutions help you accelerate time to market by supporting your business processes integrated with best practices to optimize each step in the process.

Grocery
Rapid Retail helps grocers manage a full range of grocery business processes to drive competitive advantage and profitable growth. From supporting every aspect of category management to simplifying new product introductions, Rapid Retail delivers a complete solution to help mid-market retailers distribute the right products to the right stores at the right time.

Rapid Retail includes critical processes to manage core retail functions such as:

• Category Management
• Direct to Store Delivery Processing
• High Volume Replenishment

Rapid Retail also helps grocers manage the interdependencies between critical business processes, and leverage an end-to-end solution to provide visibility across your enterprise.

Poised for the Future

Rapid Retail offers a broad spectrum of processes and tools focused on mid-market retail. As mid-market retail continues to advance and push the envelope of driving business efficiency, Rapid Retail keeps up with the pace. The Rapid Retail footprint will continue to expand to match these growing needs. In addition, CIBER and SAP will continue to maintain a design that ensures efficient upgrades for future success. Rapid Retail ensures that future developments support the direction of SAP and the complex needs of retailers at a price point targeted for success.

CIBER and SAP – A Retail Partnership Built on Success

CIBER and SAP have built a strong relationship based on a consistent and extensive track record of joint success. Like any great partnership, both CIBER and SAP bring expertise, passion and vision to the table and we are firmly committed to the success of our clients.

• Mid-Market Go-To Partnership for Retail
• CIBER and SAP - An international partnership that has existed for more than two decades
• SAP and CIBER in Europe partnered to successfully complete the first ever SAP for Retail implementation
• CIBER has more successful SAP for Retail implementations than any other SAP partner
• A powerful combination of technology expertise, industry knowledge and business process experience to drive top-line revenue and bottom-line growth
• More than 240 SAP retail consultants worldwide
• Complementary geographical and organizational structures

Why CIBER?

CIBER is an official Special Expertise SAP Retail partner and has successfully completed more than 60 implementations of the SAP for Retail solution for some of the world’s leading retail organizations. Our technical skills and application experience can make all aspects of an SAP implementation more efficient, with greater ROI.

• Trade Depot
• Dunelm Mills
• Baumax
• Steve and Barry’s
• Alpha Retail
• Euroset
• Ever Retail Group
• Kinholm
• Briscoe Group
• Ezibuy
• Postie Plus
• Rebel Sport
• Foodstuffs
• Spotlight
• ADRT
• Reject Shop
• Rays Outdoors
• Anaconda

What powers a more profitable, efficient and effective retailer? Look to an industry-specific solution like SAP for Retail and a partner who knows how to implement, integrate and maximize the full potential of SAP for Retail.

CIBER brings more than three decades of technology expertise, business process insights and project management experience to transform your retail vision and objectives into reality. With more than a thousand dedicated SAP professionals and more than 90 offices worldwide—including 60 in the US—CIBER is the ideal SAP partner to help you run a winning retail business.

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