Retail & Distribution

The retail industry must continually address changing consumer demands, narrowing margins, and increased competition from e-commerce. We've worked with clients in the trade and distribution industry for several years, where we have developed various solutions to handle the industry's challenging demands of performance management.

Challenges:

Improve profitability, quickly identify profitable or unprofitable product lines
ability to manage subsidiary companies or business units with different business models within the same system for performance management review
Ability to quickly analyze and respond to information derived from data warehouses and multiple source systems

Our solutions:

Fully integrate Mercur Business Control with data warehouses and source systems by creation of interfaces for daily automatic updates
Creation of dynamic reports which are drill down enabled to surface granular level detail including individual transactions and scanned invoices
Daily monitoring of sales, i.e. by product group or article
Analysis of sales by; grouping or sku; per day, week, month, year weekday, modelling using seasonality and prior year curve