Industry Solutions

Enterprise Apptricity for Retail

In the competitive retail market, the best merchandise with the lowest prices generally wins the consumers. To remain competitive, retailing companies are experiencing extraordinary pressure to create highly efficient organizations – both internally and externally – focused in maximize revenues and minimizing costs. Revenues may be maximized by dynamically adjusting prices, reordering high demand merchandise, eliminating stock-outs and shrinkage, while inventory costs may be minimized by improving distribution logistics and capturing time-sensitive purchase discounts.

The most critical cost-cutting step a retailer can make is in automating its supply chain and logistics. Electronic transactions increase control, visibility and collaboration among partners as inventory moves from manufacturer to distribution warehouse to store shelf to end users.

Whether you are a mass merchandiser, department store, specialty retailer, grocer or restaurant chain seeking control of or visibility into your operations, Enterprise Apptricity for Retail has cost-reducing solutions that automate your merchandise, workforce and finance business processes. Our solution can automate your inventory and service procurement to your direct store delivery and rebates reconciliation. Our solutions support order management, shipment scheduling and receiving of inventory at warehouses to shipment scheduling, receiving and delivery at retail stores. Our solutions handle transaction submissions and approvals to accounts payable and settlement – Apptricity automates all of these processes with a user-friendly, intuitive web-based interface that your employees and your suppliers can access from anywhere, anytime.  

Enterprise Apptricity for Retail reduces procurement, planning, scheduling and receiving, as well as price and quantity reconciliation time that is involved in conducting, coordinating and closing inventory management and finance transactions to simply confirming information on a computer screen: Was I charged the right price? Was the right quantity received? Were my negotiated discounts reflected? Transactions that previously took weeks with phone calls, faxes, and mailings can be conducted instantly with real-time, auditable communication.  

Savings are not restricted to merchandise and financial transactions alone. Enterprise Apptricity for Retail also offers proven workforce solutions to increase your internal control by optimizing who works on what, when and where. Our time and attendance solution automates time capture with advanced rules-based compliance. Our workforce scheduling solution automates job assignment with real-time conflict identification and resolution, off-balance shift or workload matching, and common corporate considerations (such as overtime or paid leave) exception notification.

Our commission management solution automates commission-based employee compensation and commissionable opportunity management with quota laddering, multi-level overrides, special incentive programs and draws while facilitating associated accrual tracking for accounting and planning purposes. In addition, our expense management solution automates travel, entertainment and related expenditures by employees and contractors.