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What is OctoWare Merchandising?
OctoWare Merchandising is a stand-alone software application & also an integral
part of the (OctoWare e-Business Suite) which is a full-blown software
e-Business suite & the flagship product of OctoSoft.
OctoWare Merchandising automates all the essential business processes a business
would need to; Create Online/Offline Product/Service Merchandising with detailed
product/service specifications including price and special offers,
Plan/Execute/Optimize Marketing campaigns and run POS "Point of Sale" operations
with sophisticated features of Product/Service Branding & Pricing.
Who needs OctoWare Merchandising?
All types of businesses of all sizes from SMEs "Small to Medium Enterprises" to
very large international enterprises would essentially need and benefit from
OctoWare Merchandising, however, to be more specific and focused we find the
following would be mostly interested;
- Commercial/Industrial businesses selling products/services; these businesses
regardless of the category of products/services they sell, are challenged and
enervated everyday by the massive & hectic work load of manually or
semi-automatically processing all the routine processes of managing the contents
of their product/service Merchandising such as continuous updating or editing of
that content including modifying available items, new prices, special offers,
processing orders & planning/optimizing the "Merchandising" in order to increase
revenue/sales.
Why invest in OctoWare Merchandising?
Investing in an integrated Merchandising application like (OctoWare
Merchandising) gives your business full automation of all the daily/routine
business operations of managing the ever changing data/information of your
products/services, which results in;
Saving time, money & increasing productivity
With all the daily/routine business operations automated including; marketing,
branding, pricing, merchandising & sales, your employees will be able to handle
the same amount of work load in a much less time than before. When your
employees do more work in less time because every operation requires less labor
work and less time, that would simply and directly reflect to your business as
increased productivity of your employees and an overall healthier business.
Necessity NOT trendy
In the 1990's having IT-based systems to automate Merchandising was a "trendy"
thing to have, and was only available to very large enterprises who can afford
the hefty price-tag, but nowadays, it became a business "necessity"
- To efficiently manage/optimize merchandising your products/services from the
very beginning of branding, pricing, to catalog creating, marketing & sales in
its current status now and to empower it to develop/grow further in the future.
- To survive the ferocious competition with competitors who run (or will run)
state-of-the-art IT-based Merchandising systems "from basic POS "Point Of Sale"
to online Merchandising and e-commerce".
- To make more informative decisions and get better results from the business
intelligence/data mining ad hoc tools that ensures progressive development of
the overall business in terms of ROI "Return-On-Investment with continuously
updated market/business knowledge.
- To ensure flawless execution of business operations with powerful built-in ad
hoc tools like "Business Know-How Planning & Scripting" your employees will
build/develop/share/collaborate the utmost knowledge of the business know-how
and even the newly recruited employees will be able to execute operations
according to the most proven efficient business standards.
Sample Key Business Processes Enabled
- Instant Online/Offline modes of creating/editing/updating product/service
Merchandising and performing business operations "such as selling" or scheduling
these operations "such as price changes or item availability" to be processed
automatically at specific date/time.
- Real-time monitoring/tracking/auditing of each order of products/services via
web/email/SMS technologies.
- Plan/Forecast future demand of products/services using advanced built-in tools.
- Get in-depth knowledge from your database and run virtual scenarios using the
Business-intelligence/Data-Mining built-in tools.
- Customizable security privileges of access to each designated
employee/department
Business Functions/Modules Covered
- Marketing including detailed Catalog Creating/Editing/Updating and Advanced
Profiling including Branding & Pricing
- Online/Offline Sales including POS "Point Of Sale" processing & logging
- Product/Service Delivery Tracking including real-time customer traffic
monitoring
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