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Many retailers today are struggling to maximize sales while minimizing costs in an effort to meet bottom line profit goals. RPE has extensive experience in implementing and enhancing a variety of merchandising and supply chain systems enabling retailers to reach these goals.
Consulting Experience
Our professionals are highly skilled and experienced in delivering the right merchandising and supply chain solution. Our experience goes beyond the application itself. We have the retail industry experience necessary to align your IT goals with your unique business needs.
Our experience includes:
- Assortment, merchandise and financial planning
- Demand planning, forecasting and replenishment
- Purchase order management
- Vendor management
- Inventory management
- Return to vendor
- Retail stock ledger
- Sales audit and polling
- Invoice matching
- Transfer and allocation management
- Price and cost management
- Promotion and event management
- Space management and planogram
- A/P, A/R, G/L, EDI and VMI
Certifications
RPE consultants are vigorously tested and evaluated on software, hardware and services to become certified in many critical areas to help retailers maximize your investments. Many of our project managers also hold MBAs. RPE is an IBM Business Partner and a JDA Alliance Partner and Value Added Reseller.
Certifications include:
JDA
- PMM
- MMS
- MMS Inventory Management, Accounts Payable, General Ledger
- Fundamentals of MMS
- Enterprise Planner
- Space Planning
- Elements of Demand
- Gold Level Buyer-Replenishment Analyst AWR
- ASR Gold Level Buyer-Replenishment Analyst
- WinDSS
- IDEAS
Microsoft
- Technology Specialist Dynamics Installation and Configuration AX 2012
- Certified Professional
- Certified Systems Administrator
- Certified Technology Specialist
- Certified RMS
IBM
- Technical Sales Specialist, Power Systems with POWER7 and AIX
- Technical Sales Specialist, Power Systems with POWER7 and IBM i
- Sales Specialist, Power Systems with POWER7 and AIX
- Sales Expert, Power Systems with POWER7
- System Administrator, AIX 6.1
- Specialist, Retail Store Technical Solutions V3
- Specialist, Retail Store Solution Sales V3
- Specialist, Midrange Storage Technical Support V2
Additional Certifications
- Masters Certificate IT Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Seagull GUI Developer
- CompTia A+ Certified Computer Service Technician
RPE's Approach
RPE provides a variety of value-added services to new and existing systems including:
- Merchandise and organizational hierarchy reclassification
- Historical data purge processes
- Data integrity monitoring and data cleansing
- Performance tuning
- Production scheduling
- Custom report and application development
- Custom interface development
- Implementing industry best practices
RPE believes implementing the right solution at the right time will enable a retailer to reach their strategic goals by:
- Improving sales and minimizing lost sales
- Increasing margins and reducing markdowns
- Increasing inventory turns and reducing carrying costs
- Optimizing SKU assortments/categories
Financing
Retailers who want to stay competitive with the latest hardware, software and services know that financing is a smart choice. As the world's largest IT financier, IBM Global Financing offers flexible financing options and low rates for IBM and non-IBM hardware, software and services that can turn large up-front costs into affordable and predictable monthly payments. As an IBM Business Partner, RPE can work with you on securing IBM financing for the ultimate in technology, expertise, flexibility, productivity and ROI. Learn More
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