Many retailers today are struggling to maximize sales while minimizing costs in an effort to meet their bottom line profit goals. RPE has extensive experience in implementing and enhancing a variety of merchandising systems enabling retailers to reach these goals.
Our professionals are highly skilled and experienced in delivering the right merchandising solution at the right time. Our experience goes beyond the application itself. We have the retail industry experience necessary to align your IT goals with your unique business needs.
Our experience includes:
- Assortment, merchandise and financial planning.
Demand planning, forecasting and replenishment. - Purchase order management.
- Vendor management.
- Inventory management.
- Return to vendor.
- Retail stock ledger.
- Sales audit and polling.
- Invoice matching.
- Transfer and allocation management.
- Price and cost management.
- Promotion and event management.
- Space management and planogram.
- A/P, A/R, G/L, EDI and VMI.
RPE's Approach
In addition, RPE provides a variety of value-added services to new and existing merchandise systems including:
- Merchandise and organizational hierarchy reclassification.
- Historical data purge processes.
- Data integrity monitoring and data cleansing.
- Performance tuning.
- Production scheduling.
- Custom report and application development.
- Custom interface development.
- Implementing industry best practices.
RPE believes implementing the right solution at the right time will enable a retailer to reach their strategic goals by:
- Improving sales and minimizing lost sales.
- Increasing margins and reducing markdowns.
- Increasing inventory turns and reducing carrying costs.
- Optimizing SKU assortments/categories
