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June 26, 2017 4:49 PM

Why Merchandising Managers Must Embrace The Cloud

Merchandising managers play a key part in achieving sales performance within retail operations. Their role is to drive merchandising and productivity standards and to manage and maintain the overall budget. To complete this role effectively, merchandising managers must have direct access to real-time data on current product inventory, Planograms, sales history and other metrics. Cloud-based data from merchandise management software is set to become a critical tool in carrying out this work in coming years, and within this post, we’ll look at why merchandising managers must embrace the cloud.

Merchandising managers play a key part in achieving sales performance within retail operations. Their role is to drive merchandising and productivity standards and to manage and maintain the overall budget. To complete this role effectively, merchandising managers must have direct access to real-time data on current product inventory, Planograms, sales history and other metrics. Cloud-based data from merchandise management software is set to become a critical tool in carrying out this work in coming years, and within this post, we’ll look at why merchandising managers must embrace the cloud.

Cloud Software Assures Flexibility

Within their retail operations, merchandising managers often encounter increased seasonal demand. In addition, online offers are driving a need to refresh categories in much shorter cycles. Without a versatile cloud-based architecture for merchandise planning and deployment, this increase in demand could require the company to place additional resources behind the merchandising process.

However, cloud-based systems make the manager’s role easier by highlighting upcoming changes in the merchandise line-up, alerting teams to the scope of work and sales trends driving these changes. Not only can this architectural flexibility help support agile responses to seasonal demand, but it can also ensure managers capitalize on potential sales opportunities by automatically increasing the number of popular items available in store, to maximize revenue. Add the ability to track in-store labor and validate work is completed to specification and you have the power to make a meaningful impact on the customer experience.

The Latest Cloud Systems Help Managers Communicate with Teams

Merchandising managers must work with their entire sales team, as well as on-site workers to ensure that revenues meet sales targets. Cloud-based management software presents the merchandising manager with a complete stream of data from real-time operations.

It allows managers to determine where shortfalls in performance exist and provides them with the data to communicate these shortfalls to their team members. This data can then be used to promote the most effective members of the team and ensure the company continually works toward higher sales targets, while empowering their leading resources.

Mitigate Data Security Risks

A leading consideration for merchandising managers is the quality and the security of the data within their merchandising systems. Cloud based technology can help companies mitigate data breaches and can ensure that data is available around-the-clock.

Rather than having to wait for access to data when a server goes down, managers can harness their cloud-based system to simply access their online data from any source. This ensures managers are responsive to emerging merchandising issues and the company’s data is protected against the leading threats.

Cloud-based merchandising management systems are giving managers the power to transform retail operations across the globe. To discover more on the benefits these systems can bring to the day-to-day work of a merchandising manager, speak with our team today.