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Employees, Employees, Employees!

In retail, employees come and go….A LOT!! There is a lot of turnover, a lot of part-time staff, a lot of temporary staff for busy periods,  and a lot of new hires for high growth retailers. Retailers have multiple systems …

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Omni-Channel Retailing and MDM

Can a retailer have an effective Omni-channel retail strategy without a proper MDM approach? Let’s break this down further and see what conclusion we come to. First, let’s start off with some basic definitions, as per Wiki: Omni-channel Retailing – …

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Location, Location, Location

Brick and mortar retailing is about “place”.  This is reflected in your information systems where every system requires a location table.  You can’t pay the associates, track their time, manage their work schedules, nor distribute the goods without a store …

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Is There a Place for MDM in Retail?

What is MDM? Master Data Management – according to wikipedia: MDM comprises a set of processes and tools that consistently defines and manages the non-transactional data entities of an organization (which may include reference data). MDM has the objective of providing processes for …

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