Retail Industry Offerings
- Retail Domain
IT Service Offering
Retail Domain
Kumaran Systems provides a wide range of services that has helped some of the largest retailers in North America streamline and optimize their applications and business process. Our analytical solution framework help organizations take insightful decisions to improve sales performance, achieve better responsiveness, and streamline supply chain management.
Business Challenges
- Demand for customer-focused retail
- Demand forecasting
- Price Optimization
- Highly-competitive and saturated market segments
- Need for consolidated and optimized supply chain management
What We Offer
We offer our expertise in Retail, Supply Chain Management, Point of Sale (POS), Retail B2B, Warranty Management, and Business Intelligence Reporting for measurable performance increase in merchandising, supply chain, sales, customer-driven analytics, store, and product mix.
We also undertake off-shoring of application support development product customization. Based on your needs, we can also build customized retail solutions via open source components by using Kumaran Open Source SBU. Together, we can transform your business.
Retail Service Offerings
At Kumaran, we can provide you with business-driven technology solutions. Equipped with more than 35,000 staff-days of Retail domain experience, we understand your business needs.
We offer solutions to cater to your need to improve efficiencies, cut costs, and drive revenue up.
- Retail Domain Vertical Offerings
Retail Supply Chain Management System
Kumaran’s expertise includes implementation of Warehouse Management Systems. We also deliver strategic, tactical, or operational solutions that enable efficient supply chain management and accurate decision-making. We can also offer to build reports and solutions that collect metrics and data to report on the operational efficiency of the retail supply chains.
Point-of-Sale
Kumaran's expertise includes implementation and customization of POS applications. Here are the services we provide:
- Roll-out of POS application and enhancements
- Merchant payment processing
- Integration with other related systems like retail
- Operational level and business intelligence reports around the POS applications
Retail B2B
Kumaran has built B2B solutions for its clientele. Here are the business benefits:
- Considerable reduction in errors, which earlier resulted in loss of revenue and sales
- Ability to track all shipments in transit
- E-invoicing lifecycle on daily or weekly basis
- Vendor-managed inventory, which helped shift warehousing costs to suppliers
- Faster purchase order processing and real-time tracking
- Faster payment recovery lifecycle, which increases cash flow
- Quicker access to audit trail for purchase orders and invoicing
- Better reporting capability on the performance of the B2B process
Warranty Management
Kumaran has gathered rich expertise by implementing and enhancing consumer-centric Warranty Management systems. These systems serve as a centralized repository for managing products returned during the warranty period.
We have also built solutions and processes that will help organizations reduce warranty costs and increase consumer satisfaction.
Performance Measurement
Kumaran has a reporting framework that can be quickly deployed to measure performance across sales, promotions, markdowns, product, and stores. Additionally, organizational performance can also be measured. Using this framework, Business Intelligence reports, dashboards, and scorecards can be implemented faster. Additionally, organizations can gather customer requirements and demands in a structured manner, and thus scale bigger business goals.
Implementation of Retail Products
Kumaran owns a rich pool of technical and functional resources, who can help in rolling out retail products like ORACLE retail applications. We also undertake migration of existing applications into new product stacks.
Open Source development of Retail Applications
Kumaran Open Source SBU has successfully rolled out ERP solutions in Open Source for a major North American construction client. The same architecture can be customized for the Retail industry. We are in the process of developing open source retail solutions for a major North American Retailer. Our services also include porting retail applications into open source applications.
Retail Outsourcing
If you have an existing retail application and are considering outscoring options, we can provide you with the solutions that you need. We are currently doing just that for some of the largest retailers in North America. Our proven Offsite-Onsite delivery model, coupled with our domain expertise and competitive pricing, makes for a very viable proposition. We have helped some of the largest North American retailers make their outsourcing moves seamless and stress-free.
- IT Service Offerings
- Application Re-engineering, Modernization, and Migration Solutions
- Application Development and Maintenance
- Database Migration Solutions
- Knowledge Management
- Capital Funding Solutions
- Open Source Solutions
- Outsourced Product Development
- SOA Consulting Services
- Business Process Management
- Independent Validation Services
Business Benefits
The Kumaran range of Retail solutions provides these benefits:
- Optimized and consolidated supply chains can anticipate demands and forecast better.
- Insightful decisions can improve sales, increase customer base, and offer better product mix.
- Smoother B2B process optimizes cash flow and recovery.
Case Studies
White Papers
Clientele
- Home Hardware, Canada
- The Brick, Canada
- Winners, Canada
- GERS, San Diego
Alliances
Contact Us
- Email: retail@kumaran.com
- Toll Free: 1-800-kumaran