Rapid Retail utilizes best practices to provide a unified model that integrates information across the enterprise – from multi-channel sales operations to merchandise management and the supply chain.
Rapid Retail: Realizing the Greatest Value from SAP’s Retail Solution
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.
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 80 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.
Enabling the Agile Retailer
Every retailer knows that to be successful 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
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.
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 experienced consultants 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.
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: Enabling Tomorrows Retailer, Today
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.
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 graphic opposite illustrates the depth and breadth of the Rapid Retail solution.
Poised for the Future
As retailers embraced the multi-channel and mobile world, CIBER’s iApplication demonstrates how retail and wholesale business requirements can be deployed on mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones. The solution addresses requirements such as:
- Search and Order Products (B2B & B2C scenarios)
- Display Sales Order History & Invoices
- Locate nearest store in relation to current position
- Retrieve Customer details
- Locate Customer on map
- Reporting/Analyses
- In-store replenishment
- In-store customer service
Using an Enterprise Services (SOA) Approach, the iApplication can be deployed against any CRM or ERP system that supports web-services and can be integrated with loyalty programs, Mobile B2C Commerce, Advertising Push, (e.g. store specials based on current location), and with POS systems and in-store systems.
Combined with CIBER’s expertise in the area of Business Intelligence and Analytics, we can provide all the tools you need to help you to maximize you customer relationships.
Why CIBER?
CIBER is an official Special Expertise SAP Retail partner and has successfully completed more than 80 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.
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.
A few of our Rapid Retail clients:
ADRT
Anaconda
Alpha Retail
BIBA
Briscoe Group
Dunelm Mills
Euroset
Ever Retail Group
Ezibuy
Foodstuffs
Kinholm
Postie Plus
Rays Outdoors
Rebel Sport
Reject Shop
Spotlight
Trade Depot
Wolverine Worldwide
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