Streamlined Store Operations

Janet Hawkins
Opterus Inc.
July 2011
http://www.opterus.com





Summary:

With solutions that are tailored to specific retail functions, retailers can maximize the efficiency of store operations and be empowered to accurately and consistently distribute information, plan, schedule, assign, prioritize, automate, communicate and monitor task compliance.  The key benefit: significantly reduce expenses while improving the ability to communicate with stores and monitor store compliance.  By leveraging these tailored solutions, retailers can skip the extensive training or large system configuration for easy deployment and implementation. 

Over the past decade, most retailers have invested in a wide range of new technologies such as POS, inventory management, workforce management and other automated solutions to help improve store productivity and efficiencies.  Investments in these systems by retailers have, for the most part, provided immediate and ongoing cost savings.  But retailers want and need to find further areas to cut costs, as there are very little savings left that can be squeezed out with these well established technologies.

There is most definitely a need to monitor communications and completed tasks, and manage corporate compliance.  Opterus’ solution, Store Ops-Center (SOC), is offered as SaaS and has been specifically developed for retail.  This store execution management solution is an on-demand, web-based software that is designed to communicate corporate policy, day-to-day objectives, assign tasks and handle issues between corporate office and store locations and manage compliance.  SOC enables retailers to rapidly and accurately transfer all information to and from stores more effectively.