Order to Cash
Align Technology To Your Business Goals
Your inventories are challenged by overly complex business systems, acquisitions, third-world logistics, and the need to be faster and more efficient in addressing more powerful and changing consumer demand. With margins shrinking, you need a competitive edge. And you have to be agile, flexible and adaptable to a continually evolving marketplace so you can enter new global markets quickly.
Managing volume growth, demand variability and global expansion aren't always easy. Customer demand could spike this season or an ineffective promotion could leave you with an overstocked warehouse. When orders and requests flood in, you have to respond immediately with the right information and resources. You need accurate inventory levels. And you must move massive amounts of product from your warehouse or manufacturers to your customers on time and without errors.
Order management and logistics can be costly and complex as your volume grows, distracting you from marketing, sales and product management. To address these challenges you need to drive predictive analytics, optimize your inventories and logistics, achieve greater supply chain and consumer demand visibility and increase profitability. Operational excellence and modernization through IT is the answer. You need to align technology to your business goals to achieve the results you're looking for. With better inventory management and business intelligence, you can increase your cash flow.
Transform your company to:
- Leverage scale
- Increase efficiency
- Standardize your systems
Transform Your Business and IT For Operational Excellence
EDS can help you achieve the global, end-to-end support you need in order to increase sales and customer loyalty while reducing costs. Our solution provides a lead-in for application rationalization and migration, process improvement for merchandising, order management, cash and payments management and serves as a catalyst for transforming your business and IT.
The solution also supports the following business processes and functions:
- Central buying and merchandise management
- Sales outlet management
- Logistics planning and implementation
- Sales forecasting
- Assortment planning
- Price strategies and promotions
- Automated stock replenishment
- Inventory optimization
- Interfaces to leading financial systems
Comprehensive Support For Retailers Using G.O.L.D. Retail Software
Developed by an EDS partner, the software integrates quickly and easily into your existing environment and is scalable to grow as your needs expand. The solution is globally friendly and easy to implement, and can integrate with major finance and accounting Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems and related logistics and financial management technologies.
Proven Results With Qualitative Benefits
By taking advantage of EDS' Order to Cash solution you can:
- Reduce stocks by more than 30 percent
- Minimize out of stock/backorder situations by achieving up to 98 percent availability of key selected products
- Increase sales revenues by up to 1 percent
- Implement the solution fast; within a year or less
Manage All Aspects of Your Merchandise and Order to Cash Management
Through the Order to Cash solution, we can provide you with:
- Consulting services to optimize your merchandise management processes to include:
- Order management
- Supply chain logistics
- Payments
- Full range of retail operations
- Integration services applying EDS' agile application architecture to design and implement an integrated merchandise management/Order to Cash solution around the G.O.L.D. software package to support:
- Flexibility
- Growth
- Long-term benefits
- Broader application development, management and hosting opportunities for the G.O.L.D. software and related systems, supporting the full spectrum of merchandise and cash management processes
- Implementation of integration application modules that control and optimize:
- Merchandise management
- Sales outlet management
- Sales forecasting
Related EDS Services:
- Application Development Services
- Applications Modernization Services
- Applications Management Services – Enterprise
- Web Hosting Services
- Network Management Services
- Storage Management Services
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