How we help retail

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Optimized assortment per store cluster

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Productivity increase for Planning & Merchandising Teams

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Reduced costs by replacing physical Mock-up stores

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Improved product photography

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Reduced In-store labour costs

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More accurate in-store execution

C-level & Management

• Better sell through due to improved stock management, resulting in higher net revenue and margins

• Reduced logistics cost(s) due to less overstock returns to warehouse

• Avoid financial overspend due to ability to test the space for precise fixture and branding requirements

Marketing & Planning

• Create a consistent brand identity across multiple stores on a regional and global basis

• Reduction in PoS wastage due to accurate planning and testing of concepts prior to investment

• Improve cross functional team collaboration for buying, merchandising, marketing and store operations

Retail operations & VM

• Precise retail execution through the creation of accurate planograms and fixture guidelines

• Ability to test designs and collections in a retail environment at the buying stage

• Greater productivity during new store openings, with less man hours and overtime required

• Display your product range as you want - a visual output helps you spot gaps instantly
  

• Make sure products match defined colour cards and concepts from the early planning stage to development of the product range

• Define merchandise categories within a store cluster to provide optimal capacities, product quantities and merchandise flow
  

• Improve your assortment creation and visually analyse the collection-setup per cluster.
  

• Create mock-ups of store clusters including Merchandise before the “buy”.

On average, sample and buying costs went down with 5% by improving space utilization when leveraging space planning and statistical information capabilities

• Improve cross functional team collaboration for design, planning, buying, merchandising, marketing and store operations by using one centralised platform.

• Create as many automated planograms/guidelines as you want, for stores of any space grade and in any location
  

• MockShop makes guidelines extremely user friendly at store cluster level - making it easier to communicate for compliance feedback on a weekly basis

Productivity went up with 35% on average due to a better process integration at our benchmark customers, which led to a average of 14% decrease in "time-to-market".

At one of our customers, an American retailer, productivity went up from 60 planogram guidelines per month to 350 automated planograms with the same labour. 

• Make physical mock-up stores a thing of the past - using MockShop takes no physical labour and no materials
  

• Dynamically fill your mock-up stores with your product range by simply dragging and dropping products into a 3D environment - all in real time
  

• Create as many mock-shops as you like, with no limitations in size, fixtures, merchandise or POS material

These costs are reduced with 40% on average.

The same American retailer saved in excess of US $2 million per annum, by planning the stores in a virtual way in the Mockshop application and sending out guidelines digitally instead of printing and physically shipping them to the stores.

• With StyleShoots Horizontal all the technical complexity of photography is removed and a professional quality image can be uploaded in a matter of seconds
  

• These images can be used in MockShop, ShopShape, lookbooks, catalogues, your digital asset management systems and e-commerce sites

With StyleShoots, productivity of an in-house product photo capturing process is increased on average by 250%.  

When looking at one of our customer’s processes, the same products are captured for at least 5 different departments automatically.

• Using ShopShape get compliance feedback to and from all relevant stores around the world
  

• Up to the minute information and views help you build a better brand and strategically support sales
  

• Follow merchandising directives directly from the ShopShape app with clear visual support and guidelines
  

• Have a centralised data point for your store compliance, making it easier to ensure your stores follow guidelines
  

• Use the inbuilt ShopShape messaging app to give store owners the ability to highlight problems instantly and respond in real time
  

• Spend less time dealing with compliance and more time on visual merchandising to deliver a better customer experience more cheaply

One of our ShopShape customers, a German fast fashion retailer, experienced a greater than 40% reduction in labour costs to set the floors. In-store labour costs are reduced with 20% on average. 

• Use MockShop to test designs and collections at the buying stage. Visualise your planning in 3D and avoid over- and under-stocking

• By creating visual merchandising concepts at an earlier stage in the retail process, a better balanced collection can be delivered to store level
  

• Improve customer experience by having a more well-designed collection that leverages trends before competitors
  

• Iterating designs and collections at virtual level allows for improved stock management and planning
  

• More accurate in-store execution leads to a better customer experience, leading to better "sell through" and less markdowns
  

• Increase average ticket value through better presentation of collections

At one of our UK based customers, revenue increased by  6% one year after implementation/Go-Live