To succeed in today’s fast-growing and aggressively competitive environment, Retail Industry has to cope with multiple challenges including managing pricing pressures and optimizing supply chains. Retailers are aggressively coming out with their private label brands to improve their profit margins.

TCS can help you enhance your profit margins and stay ahead of the competition through innovative retail solutions which aid optimum management of operational costs.

Client Challenges

• Faster Concept-to-Market capabilities
• Increased competition, pricing pressures, and shorter shelf lives
• Improve demand forecasting and collaboration with global suppliers
• Optimize supply chain and MRO inventory
• Improve visibility into cost of operations
• Comply with industry standards and regulatory bodies
• Improve the ‘in-store’ experience of the customers

What TCS Provides

TCS can help its clients in retail sector to grow and overcome these challenges by virtue of its Global Network Delivery Model (GNDM™), process driven approach and cross functional skills in Merchandising, Distribution, Planning, Store Operations, Finance, Supply Chain Management, Product Development, and Information Technology. Our technology offerings include:

Product Lifecycle Management - For Private Labels

• New product introduction for private labels
• Fabric and social compliance management solution
• Supplier assessment and collaboration solution
• Consulting services

Enterprise Asset Management - For Stores and Infrastructure

• Assets repository and facilities management solution
• Infrastructure services strategy development
• Work and inventory management solution
• Maintenance vendor management solution
• Mobile solutions for asset, work, inventory and fleet management
• Consulting, current system study and improvements

Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

• Geographic analysis of retailer’s location
• Route mapping and planning
• Site analysis
• Asset / Resource management
• Expertise in building geospatial solutions integrating with legacy and enterprise business solutions
• Consulting services

Business Value

• Reduction in product development time and cost upto15%
• Increase in profit margins - upto 20% with the ability to sell private label products
• Reduction in asset and facilities management cost upto10%
• Improved supplier collaboration
• Seamless integration with enterprise systems
• Improved market analysis, site selection, merchandising, distribution, delivery, and facilities management

Associated Products

• Product Lifecycle Management - Team Center Engineering, Team Center Enterprise, Windchill, e-MATRIX, Envoia, MySAP PLM, Oracle PLM, Agile, SmarTeam
• Enterprise Asset Management - Maximo, Datastream, IFS, SAP-PM, Passport, Oracle