Today’s dynamic retail space requires that the modern retailer make critical decisions on selling and purchasing on–the –go. Converting the massive amounts of retail data generated through purchase records, social media etc. into immediately actionable information using real-time analytics is significantly limited by the capabilities of traditional database applications. SAP HANA’s extreme speed and efficiency greatly advances real-time analyzing abilities. This aids instant decision-making and predictive analysis, making it a dramatic improvement over previous platforms. The following use cases help us explore how SAP HANA is changing the rules of the retail game by lending itself to a plethora of innovative retail solutions in inventory management, localized mobile advertising and in-store customer engagement.
Use Cases
1. SAP HANA helps Phildar in the timely control of its inventory
When leading women’s fashion retailer Phildar wanted to expand its Ready-to–Wear (RTW) line by centralizing inventory control of 1000 items across its 660 stores, it found its existing systems were taking too long to aggregate, process and display individual store sales and inventory data. This hampered its instantaneous decision-making ability.
To counter its problems, Phildar implemented a SAP HANA application that helped it:
Phildar’s RTW segment reported a double-digit growth because of better order processing and price management.
2. Retailigence creates context-specific mobile ad engine using SAP HANA
Today's mobile advertising is not nearly as personalized as the medium of its broadcast. Therefore, it is ineffective in stimulating audience purchase behaviour, as it does not account for contextual information such as individual shopper profiles, shopper proximity, weather, local retail inventory etc. There is a pressing need for ad content, which is highly relevant for different shoppers and effects higher audience conversions.
Retailigence used SAP HANA to create adPOP – an ad engine that displays relevant ads to consumers with customized messages that dynamically accounts for demographic profile and changes in local inventory:
3. Retailers increase in-store customer engagement using HANA
Multi–franchise retailers face the challenges of matching the level of personalized shopping experience and one–to-one customer engagement provided by mom-and-pop stores. These challenges affect their ability to retain customer loyalty and influence in-store consumer purchase decisions. However, the use of smartphones by shoppers during the shopping process provides larger franchise stores with the means to a possible solution.
SAP Precision Retailing powered by SAP HANA helps multi-franchise retailers increase customer engagement by:
The ability to make sense of large volumes of data in an instant is a highly desirable element in any business scenario, not least of all in retail. SAP HANA’s massive speed and radical efficiency has enabled it to carry this out at a never-before-experienced level. The use cases mentioned above are a testament to SAP HANA’s ability to transform various activities in the retail value chain for the better. In the cutthroat world of retail, making this transformation could be the difference between success and failure.
.References
Link: http://www.saphana.com/docs/DOC-3302
3. SAP Precision Retailing Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d7sTgjCFPs
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