Today’s retailer needs to be agile to remain competitive. SAP™ for Retail is the premier ERP solution that not only allows retailers to be agile, but affords them the ability to gain competitive advantage. However, for most mid-market retailers, finding available capital and human resources to successfully implement a retail ERP system can be problematic. Yet, failing to do so may mean falling behind the competition. To assist mid-market retailers and leverage the power of SAP for Retail, CIBER has created a turnkey offering, Rapid Retail® Ready-to-Run (R2R).
CIBER created R2R so mid-market retailers can utilize SAP for Retail with minimal up-front capital and human resource investment. R2R combines software, hardware, implementation services, education, hosting and ongoing support into a single turnkey solution. R2R enables you to work with a sole vendor, CIBER, for a single monthly fee. This full lifecycle solution enables you to invest your capital in other strategic initiatives, such as new store openings, while still leveraging the power of SAP for Retail. This retail-specific package solution is born from almost 30 years of CIBER retail expertise and insight.
Rapid Retail Ready-to-Run
R2R reduces the risk, complexity, time, and cost of a retail ERP implementation. This package enables you to streamline your business processes, improve efficiencies, minimize system downtime and reduce the total cost of ownership associated with your software implementation. A highly skilled CIBER team will train your business users to be proficient on the SAP for Retail solution in a short period of time. We utilize our Rapid Retail preconfigured template to train your organization on SAP Best Practices for Retail. CIBER then hosts, maintains, and supports your SAP system remotely at one of our three world-class hosting centers in the U.S. This approach allows our mid-market clients to implement a robust SAP for Retail solution, utilizing best practices, with minimal disruption to your business.
R2R combines a number of CIBER’s core competencies into a single solution, these include:
- Rapid Retail (CIBER’s SAP certified pre-configured template of retail best practices)
- Implementation Services
- Hosting
- Education and Training
- Post-production Support
- Hardware
The scope of the R2R is:
- Merchandising
- Supply Chain Planning
- Supply Chain Execution
- Store Management
- Financial Management
Implementation
Over the course of the four to five month implementation, CIBER retail consultants will:
- Install and configure your SAP for Retail solution
- Train your business users on SAP for Retail
- Support data migration into the SAP system
- Interface the SAP system to a number of your existing systems
- Create and modify system reports and forms to your needs
Benefits
R2R :
- Allows you to quickly implement SAP for Retail inclusive of SAP Best Practices across your core retail processes
- Keeps up-front capital and human resource investment to a minimum
- Provides one source for your entire solution
- Provides you with an expandable and scalable SAP for Retail solution
- Reduces the risk of solution implementation
Partner with the Retail Experts
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 and with greater ROI.
CIBER brings more than three decades of technology expertise, business process insights and project management experience, transforming 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.
CIBER SAP Retail Credentials
CIBER supports clients in the retail, apparel and footwear (AFS) and consumer packaged goods (CPG) industries with their SAP solutions. With a worldwide client base, CIBER has helped more than 60 retail clients drive maximum value from their SAP Retail implementations.
Our credentials include:
• SAP Services Alliance Partner since 1989
• More than 500 SAP customers
• Expertise in PCI Compliance - Qualified Security Assessor
• QA Partner Pre-Release Testing for SAP RFID
• Certified SAP Global Outsourcing and Hosting Partner
• More than 1,300 SAP consulting resources
• More than 240 dedicated SAP Retail consultants worldwide
• More than 60 implementations of SAP for Retail completed
• Preferred Partner – SAP for Retail Mid-Market
• Special Expertise Partner – SAP for Retail
• Extensive supply chain collaboration experience in Retail, AFS and CPG
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