Recent stories in the press like Glynn Davis’s article discussing evolving skill-sets in interpreting and analysing customer data in Retail Bulletin, highlight a real issue. He argues that more emphasis should be placed on mathematics and data in the retail marketing role, if retailers are to make sense of, and profit from, the sheer breadth and volume of customer data now at their fingertips. As he explains, “not only have the volumes of data increased, but the variety has also grown massively – now taking…
Retail systems specialists Futura explain why EDI is the next big thing for mid-tier retailers. Successful retail operations depend on strong supply chain control. This is especially important for lifestyle and fashion retailers, where the agility to respond rapidly to seasonal demands and changing styles is critical. But with more channels and more products, an increasingly switched on consumer and a truly global supply base, it gets more and more complex. Manual systems simply can’t keep up which is why we believe electronic data interchange (EDI)…
Retail Business technology Expo 2014, RBTE, takes place on the 11th and 12th March at Londons Earls Court and at Futura we are busily getting ready to showcase our exciting new 4th generation, enterprise level EPOS solution. Futura4POS has been written from the ground up and designed for large lifestyle and fashion retailers, as well as brands looking to expand and trade internationally. With an advanced systems architecture and 2-byte character set, supporting the widest range of languages, Futura4POS is a fully scalable, real time…
Futura are proud to announce the launch of their new 4th generation, EPOS solution designed for high street retailers fashion and giftware brands that are looking to expand and trade internationally. The solution is hardware and database independent, and able to run on both Windows and Linux, a key benefit to tier 1 enterprise businesses. Futura 4POS also takes a ‘best in breed’ approach to Head Office systems, providing retailers with complete flexibility as to whether they implement Futura4POS alongside Futura’s award winning head office…
Best retail habits For over 20 years, we have worked with innovative lifestyle retailers and we have identified the three retail habits the most successful retailers adopt to: improve accuracy and increase customer satisfaction With Futura you’ve got a rich, fully functional management system to help you, so NOW is the time to exploit it and get that competitive edge! Habit No 1 – Learn more about your customers Do you know why your customers love your products and what drives loyalty to your…