Operations Intelligence for Retail

Profitable execution in retail is all about the details – from store execution to logistics and distribution, management of real estate assets, payroll and manpower management, IT infrastructure, finances and non-inventory supplies.

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The list of considerations is long, but intelligent use of working capital and management of operating expenses ensures that top-line revenue and margin performance is not eroded by inefficiency before it reaches the bottom line.

Operations intelligence solutions from SAS let retailers take advantage of their organizational assets to sell and deliver merchandise and services to customers – efficiently and profitably.

SAS Supplier Relationship Management helps you establish sound supplier evaluation practices and reduce enterprise spend by consolidating and prioritizing your supplier base and reducing supplier risk. This solution offers strategy alignment and scorecarding, commodity classification and data quality, opportunity exploration, detailed analysis and decision support.

SAS IT Management Solutions help you surmount the abundance of hardware configurations and databases, so you can realize the full potential of each IT resource, manage IT and service delivery, control costs and make informed decisions that directly affect your bottom line.

SAS Financial Intelligence helps you focus on specific financial business processes – planning, reporting, budgeting, consolidation, risk assessment, forecasting, strategy development, the audit process – and develop more predictive, accurate, relevant and timely results. SAS Financial Intelligence provides the ability to manage corporate finances and meet regulatory requirements.

SAS Human Capital Management offers the organizational insights that enable you to plan effective human capital strategies and then measure and compare your company's best practices.

Integrated retail intelligence
SAS solutions for retail turn data about customers, merchandise, operations and enterprise performance into knowledge that empowers you to make more informed decisions, gain a competitive advantage, strengthen customer and vendor loyalty, and improve profitability.