Retail Process Engineering, LLC

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RPE Retail Consulting, Implementation and Hosting for Blue Yonder Software Solutions

The retailer of today, whether it’s an emerging retailer with a dozen regional stores or an established chain with national scope, needs to constantly grow revenue and keep costs under control. This frequently means implementing new applications and systems. To be successful with implementations, retailers can benefit from the guidance and experience of professionals at RPE who provide Blue Yonder software implementation consulting services. This team has core competencies in retail consulting services including deep retail knowledge, business process, package selection, integration, project management, hosting, ongoing support and training.

RPE Support for Merchandise Management System (MMS)

Blue Yonder Merchandise Management System (MMS) leverages advanced pricing methods, integrated financial and warehousing capabilities and customer order management functionality to increase your revenues. RPE works with MMS to address retail merchandising and inventory functions. RPE has extensive implementation experience with MMS with an impressive client list. Many of our associates are former Blue Yonder employees working with this application since its inception. It runs exclusively on IBM Power Systems servers.

RPE Support for Portfolio Merchandise Management (PMM)

Our consultants are highly experienced in Blue Yonder Portfolio Merchandise Management (PMM) both functionally and technically. We provide implementation and support to PMM fast and efficiently to save time and money. Blue Yonder Portfolio Merchandise Management helps maintain the lowest inventory investment while still sustaining service levels. The solution’s automated alert system helps you identify inventories that require decisions, such as initiating purchase orders, markdowns or stock balancing transfers. RPE has extensive implementation experience in Blue Yonder PMM with an impressive client list. Many of our associates have worked with this application since its inception.

RPE Support for Business Analysis for MMS and PMM

Blue Yonder Business Analysis bring together data from other applications to provide complete reporting coverage. They are pre-integrated into Blue Yonder solutions, allowing for real-time access to the data they generate. Based on IBM Cognos 11, these analytics tools are easily supported by the MMS and PMM platforms. They also offer many advantages over legacy reporting tool, including a modern, user-friendly interface that enables you to pinpoint the status and position of your business’s orders, shipments, and inventory using just one dashboard. With these tools, you will be able to quickly identify and solve many of the retail challenges your business faces, leading to measurable improvements in the bottom line.

RPE Support for Blue Yonder Allocation

RPE works with retailers in developing new business processes resulting in more consistency, speed and accuracy with allocation decisions. As one of the most robust allocation software solutions in the marketplace, Blue Yonder Allocation applies built-in, best practice methodologies that enable you to conduct what-if analyses to test retail allocation strategies prior to execution. With targeted allocation, retailers are able to create more accurate, store-specific allocations for more strategic and tailored inventory and assortment plans. Improved control of merchandising selection, deeper analysis and reporting features lend improved insight. An allocation Health Check from RPE assesses the health of your allocation environment by identifying critical performance and configuration issues and opportunities. RPE listens to user feedback and pain points to make recommendations for immediate and long-term solutions.

RPE Support for Blue Yonder Advanced Replenishment

In today’s volatile business climate, merchandising decisions must deliver high service levels, while minimizing inventory investments. RPE consultants are industry leaders in inventory optimization having designed, developed and implemented solutions for multiple retailers. A solutions that utilizes traditional min/max and one-for-one replenishment logic, Blue Yonder Advanced Replenishment conducts scientific and statistical evaluations of each buying decision variable. For each item, the solution weighs every factor for each store — including demand, seasonality, order frequency, lead times, vendor minimums and discounts, and service levels — and recommends the best action based on the most profitable result.

RPE Support for Blue Yonder Enterprise Planning

If you’ve decided that Blue Yonder Enterprise Planning is a smart choice for your retail business, there’s no one better to implement it than RPE. We’re a leading retail consulting firm that’s been providing retail systems consulting services and omnichannel retail software solutions to companies across the United States and Canada since 1999. Our strategic and functional consultants have extensive experience with Enterprise Planning, so we can help your business achieve greater data visibility, responsiveness, and synchronization for more accurate planning. When paired with our extensive experience and commitment to outstanding customer service, Blue Yonder Enterprise Planning provides a solution that is essential in today’s competitive retail landscape. We also provide health checks and upgrades to ensure that the Enterprise Planning application continues to function at maximum efficiency. After a detailed looking into your processes, we develop a detailed recommendation for improvement, and provide you with the feedback you need to improve system and process effectiveness.

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RPE Solutions Retail Consulting Services and Omnichannel Retail Software

RPE Solutions is a leading retail consulting firm helping retailers achieve unified commerce. With today's omnichannel retail software solutions, retailers can streamline processes across all channels in real time. From merchandise management systems and retail planning and allocation to hosting and point of sale solutions, RPE closes the gap between the way consumers shop and retailers sell. In today’s changing retail landscape, RPE consultants and IT solutions experts utilize years of experience to help retailers enhance the customer engagement, increase sales and improve profitability.

Blue Yonder Retail Merchandise Management Solution Delivered via the RPE Cloud

Improve operational and inventory performance with a comprehensive cloud-based merchandise management solution. Using a cost-effective and cloud-based model for delivery of hardware, software and services eliminates the worry of constant infrastructure upgrades, IT staffing and security safeguards. Capabilities: Reporting/Analytics, Inventory Control, PO Management, Item Management, Price & Cost Management, Replenishment, General Ledger, Accounts Payable and Warehouse Management.

BI for Informed Decision Making with MMS and PMM Live Demo

This live demo presented by RPE features Blue Yonder Business Analysis for MMS and PMM. Improve bottom line results with informed, fact-based decisions from information gathered from your entire business network. Key Features: Pre-integrated to Blue Yonder MMS and PMM, real-time access to data, intuitive interface, accessible via web browser or mobile, easily integrates data sources and creates compelling reports and dashboards.

RPE Cloud Hosting and Systems Management

Discover how RPE cloud hosting and systems management can eliminate downtime, reduce operating costs and improve security. With data centers and support services based in the United States, RPE provides a 24/7/365 comprehensive roster of services. As a cloud services provider, RPE is a reliable alternative to businesses hosting and maintaining their own servers and IT departments. Most important, our SOC 1 compliant Data Center staffed by operations professionals meets the highest standards of quality and performance to ensure security of services. Businesses can benefit from a cloud hosting provider as it is a cost-effective business model to increase service levels and access data from any place at any time.

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