Retail, FMCG & Distribution
Retailers, consumer-goods companies and distributors run on a daily cycle — sales, campaigns, routes, replenishment, procurement — that cannot wait for month-end consolidation. Yet the data behind those decisions sits in point-of-sale and loyalty systems, one or more ERPs, cloud field-sales tools on reps’ devices and procurement platforms, across stores, countries and time zones.
The job is to join those sources at volume and near real time into marts built for the questions the business asks every morning, to open them to self-service, and — where procurement or distribution runs across many systems — to integrate the process itself so it runs the same way in every market.
Where data pays back in retail
No view across stores and time zones
Dozens or hundreds of stores, high data volumes and consolidation that takes too long — so campaign efficiency and loyalty cannot be measured while they still matter.
Primary and secondary sales apart
Primary sales in the ERP, secondary sales in a field app on reps’ devices, financials in another system — and management needing all three together, daily.
Decentralised procurement
Procurement spread across many ERPs and markets, with quality, wastage and inefficiency as the result.
BI projects that never land
Complex, dynamic processes on which standard BI implementations stall for years, leaving decisions unsupported.
Services for retail
- Data Engineering & Warehousing Sales, loyalty and combined primary/secondary sales marts; enterprise warehouses on SAP and other ERPs; near-real-time capture where the business runs on it.
- Business Intelligence & Self-Service KPI dashboards, automated daily sales reporting, market-basket and campaign analytics, mobile BI for field teams and governed self-service.
- Integration & Migration ERP ↔ procurement-cloud integration with global templates so each additional market is configuration, not a project.
- Process Mining & Intelligence Order-to-cash and procure-to-pay discovered from the event log before they are optimised or automated.
- Data & AI Strategy A roadmap that sequences store, channel, customer and supply-chain analytics by value.
- Managed Analytics The platform run and enhanced on subscription through peak seasons and new-store roll-outs.
Outcomes
What changes
- Management sees consolidated sales, campaigns and loyalty daily instead of at month-end.
- Visibility across channels, routes, products, brands, reps and discounts.
- Route optimisation and cost-per-call metrics used to run the field.
- A single procurement process across markets, without middleware.
Questions we're asked in retail
Yes — that is the core of our consumer work: point-of-sale and loyalty data across stores, ERP data for primary sales and financials, and cloud field-sales data from reps’ devices, joined in one mart with near-real-time latency.
A first domain — sales, loyalty or procurement — is typically live in six to twelve weeks, and marts are designed to go live across all stores at once without impacting trading.
Yes. We integrate multiple ERPs with procurement clouds such as Ariba — master data on a schedule, transactions in real time — with global templates for multi-country roll-outs.
Yes. Multi-country, multi-time-zone consolidation is a standard design consideration in our consumer platforms.