Oracle Retail Merchandising Cloud Services
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Oracle Retail
Merchandising Cloud Services
A key challenge in retail is how to efficiently and effectively provide the
right amount of available information in a usable and consumable format.
With the explosion of social media, omnichannel shopping, and the pressure
to expand into new formats and countries, this has never been more
important. Retailers need to make the connections between items,
locations, and suppliers, track purchase orders, monitor deal income,
manage replenishment settings, understand customer ordering, and
aggregate transaction information into stock ledger reporting levels. As the
central source of all information, merchandising solutions provide a
simplified and accurate view across their entire retail organization.
ORACLE RETAIL MERCHANDISING CLOUD SERVICES
Oracle Retail Merchandising Cloud Services are a suite of software-as-a-service solutions
that provides retailers with breakthrough capabilities including role-based dashboards
that surfaces relevant buying, inventory, pricing and financial information to the user. It
leverages retail science, machine learning, and data analytics to accelerate critical
decision-making for quick action. By using Oracle’s modern exception-based retailing
methodology to identify situations that require attention, the solution vastly reduces the
amount of time merchandising professionals spend on nonproductive tasks and frees up
more time to focus on strategic business goals.
FEATURES OF THE MERCHANDISING SUITE
The complete suite of Oracle Retail Merchandising services includes Oracle Retail
Merchandising Foundation Cloud Service, Oracle Retail Pricing Cloud Service, Oracle Retail
Integration Cloud Service, Oracle Retail Allocation Cloud Service, and Oracle Retail Invoice
Matching Cloud Service.
Oracle Retail Merchandising Foundation Cloud Service Key Features:
Provides end-to-end merchandising operations which delivers the foundation of a
retailer’s operations
Encompasses the capabilities of merchandising, import management, and sales
auditing solutions into a single-cloud service
Capabilities include Foundation Data (items, locations, suppliers, HTS), purchase
orders (domestic and foreign), cost and deals management, ELC, inventory
(transfers, receipts, adjustments, stock counts), replenishment, sales audit, and
stock ledger
Key Features
Role-based dashboards,
contextual BI and notifications
Exception-based retailing
Manages core foundation data
such as suppliers, locations, and
hierarchies
Multi-channel, brand, and
country support
Multi-language, multi-currency,
and multiple sets of books
support
Customizable flex fields
Robust cost and deal
management
Purchase order management
Regular, clearance, and
promotional price management
Multiple replenishment methods
using simple stock levels or
forecasts
Centralized inventory
management across all
channels
Complete retail stock ledger
with cost or retail methods of
accounting
Integration services
Full import support from HTS
classification to actual cost
tracking
Exception-based sales auditing
Oracle Retail Pricing Cloud Service Key Features:
Allows for a single solution for all regular, clearance, and promotional pricing
Seamlessly integrates with Oracle Retail Xstore Point-of-Service
Enables users to make informed pricing decisions by providing visibility to cost,
current price, and margin, as well as upcoming price events, key item, and
inventory data
Oracle Retail Allocation Cloud Service Key Features:
Integrates with Oracle Retail Merchandising Foundation Cloud Service for item
details, purchase orders, and up-to-date inventory figures
Provides retailers the ability to allocate (or push) product to stores throughout the
product lifecycle – from initial purchase to clearance
Allocation users can choose from a number of methods on how best to get the
right product, to the right store, in the right assortment
Oracle Retail Invoice Matching Cloud Service Key Features:
Seamlessly integrates with the Foundation Cloud Service
Manages the matching, reconciliation, and payment of supplier invoices for
purchases to the warehouse, store, or vendor drop-ship
Provides a configurable and automated way to meet the unique invoicing
requirements of retailers. Invoices are matched or resolved, then posted with any
corresponding documents to financials
Oracle Retail Integration Cloud Service Key Features:
Provides the integration infrastructures and tools needed for a retailer using Oracle
Retail Merchandising Foundation Cloud Service
Includes the Oracle Retail Integration Bus, the Oracle Retail Service Backbone and
the Oracle Retail Bulk Data Integration
Allows for integration with a retailer’s third-party systems
DELIVERING RELIABLE, EXCEPTION-BASED RETAILING
Exception-Based Retail. Persona-based dashboards provide the users with real-time
information which highlights actionable or frequently monitored activities. The entire UI is
focused on user behavior, providing multiple methods to view, filter, and take action on
items on their dashboard. This saves the user significant time by bringing the details to
them in a graphical, easy to understand manner, and not requiring them to search for them.
Eliminating Complexity. Retailers can find increase efficiencies, and reduced time and
cost, by focusing on the exceptions. Oracle Retail Merchandising provides dashboards
that highlight the work a user needs to focus on and the tools to resolve the issues
direction from the dashboard as well as the way to go directly to the item requiring
resolution. Contextual BI provides the users additional information to aid in their decision
making without having to search for the information.
Oracle Cloud Delivers Reliability and Scale. The Oracle Cloud solutions provide the
installation, monitoring, patching, and upgrading of the cloud services thereby freeing up
retailers to focus on innovation and business processes.
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Key Benefits:
SaaS continuous upgrades
Cloud service deployed and
supported by Oracle’s Cloud
Complete retail stock ledger
supporting cost and retail
methods of accounting
Exception-based retailing
allows for time efficiencies
Enterprise inventory
Foundation data management
Multi-vertical, multi-country,
and multi-format support
ensures business agility
Data integrity improved by
providing one central source
for merchandising transaction
information
Greater business visibility
promotes greater return on
inventory investment
Integrated, but modular
solutions allow for adaptability
and flexibility
Extensive business process
and implementation
documentation
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