Costs
Reduced
Integrated
SAP
Improved
Performance
The customer is a convenience store retailer operating circa 2300 stores throughout Europe, Russia, Scandinavia and the Baltics. RGIS has now delivered its SmartSpace® solution suite across a Citrix based environment designed to improve communications with the Head Quarters and satellite offices. This will ultimately improve individual store and company-wide performance by significantly cutting store planning, approvals and implementation costs during product realignment, refits and/or new store builds.
THE CHALLENGE
The convenience store retailer required the ability to analyse and report on store layouts, sales, profit and margin performance, so required RGIS to provide the following:
- Encourage store level merchandising
- Store clustering for analysis and comparison
- Seamless links to third party applications
- Improve management control of store space planning
- 3D modelling of store merchandising layouts
- Obtain store merchandising data quicker
- Identify opportunities for departmental reviews, store refurbishments, introduction of new product categories and new store formats
Sectors
Why RGIS?
A complete space management solution, SmartSpace Software provides the tools for retailers to streamline and automate time consuming, resource heavy retail floor planning and management requirements.
Our Solutions
The convenience store retailer partnered with RGIS to complete the space planning software solution, and provided the following:
A macro store planning system
Macro store plans new and existing stores
Importing existing planograms
Importing third party micro space data
Store spatial values including fixtures and planograms
Equipment types and numbers of fixtures
Planogram to store allocation
Performance reports geographically and store size
Capability for users to customize and create reports
Results
The convenience store retailer found by outsourcing the space planning software solution to RGIS, the following was achieved:
Improved performance for both individual stores and company-wide
Significantly reduced store planning approvals
Reduced implementation costs
Made product realignment, refits and new store builds more efficient with less costs
Full integration with SAP system and third party application
Conclusion
By partnering with RGIS to implement the SmartSpace® space planning solution, the retailer achieved significant operational and financial benefits. The solution streamlined and automated previously manual and time-consuming planning processes, resulting in reduced store planning approvals and lower implementation costs. Integration with existing systems and improved reporting capabilities enabled more efficient product realignment, refits and new store builds, which in turn supported better individual store performance and overall company-wide results. The insights delivered through SmartSpace® also helped inform decision-making and contributed to increased revenue and enhanced spatial efficiency across the retail estate
