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NAV – LS Retail – Novensys, the hidden success behind the shelves
01.11.2008
The retail was, and still is even during the global financial crises, one of the business areas with the highest growth rate in Romania in the last years. In 2008, the successful Romanian retailers are companies that managed to take their operational flows to maxim efficiency and that understood the fact that every competitive advantage must be profited from. And the informatic solutions implemented by Novensys are a warranty in this sense.
„ For companies, the benefits of the integrated solution Microsoft Dynamics NAV - LS Retail are represented by certainty, control and comfort in decision making, effective business management and competitive advantages."
This statement made by Cezar Golmbeanu, President of the Board, Novensys, seems to be a brief formula for any successful business in this world. A formula attested by practical examples: since 2005, as the partnership with LS Retail was signed, Novensys implemented the integrated Microsoft Dynamics NAV - LS Retail solution at Flanco, BSB, Flamingo, Brecco, Sprider, Spar and Tornado. These are just a few of the customers that manage their commercial activity and consolidate commercial data by using integrated solution NAV - LS Retail (and some other 200 stores from various industries: bricolage, fashion, FMCG, White Goods and Electronics). These are companies that choose this solution and Novensys in order to consolidate their business and to capitalize competitive advantages unapproachable up to the moment of the implementation.
The tandem Microsoft Dynamics NAV - LS Retail offers a double advantage of the interconnection of an ERP solution with an application dedicated to the retail area, both with hundreds of customers worldwide. Novensys adds up the advantage of the unique integrator to all these other benefits, an integrator that can offer a competitive portfolio of hardware solutions, besides the experience and the know-how necessary for a successful implementation.
The NAV benefits
There are many business arguments standing for the „tandem for success". On one side, Microsoft Dynamics NAV carries out centralized management of the activities going on in the whole stores network, enabling real time visibility of operations in every commercial unit. Thus, a management tool is obtained, capable of responding quickly to challenges coming from the market and to changes in customer behavior. The retailers must identify and take quick measures in order to face the challenges of the business environment and Microsoft Dynamics NAV covers all of these requests, permitting even to forecast change. Thanks to its superior scalability and flexibility, the Microsoft solution makes operations easier for every store manager.
The NAV ERP is completely integrated with the other applications specific to retail activities, going on in the stores and warehouses throughout the territory, so that local managers can benefit from consolidated data from the main functional areas. Because Microsoft Dynamics allows quick and efficient implementation at all levels of the organization at an optimal cost/performance ratio, it is possible to obtain a clear view of the business and a quality support for decisions.
The LS Retail booster
The benefits of Microsoft Dynamics NAV are enlarged by the LS Retail application, which provides complete functions for sales management and automation. LS Retail creates the bound between the devices at the point of sales and the Microsoft solution at the headquarters.
The application comes in module packages and allows the management of the entire retail process and the native interoperability with the Microsoft platform ensures and homogenous informatic system without information jams between the back-office and the head-office. Because it is an dedicated application, developed from the start on Microsoft technologies, the users of the mixed solution Microsoft - LS Retail have access to all the information provided by the NAV ERP, are familiar with a single interface at all levels and administrators have only one centralized system to manage (the solution for management of in store sales can function either online or offline). The application permits a high level of granularity, enabling the identification of a single transaction between the POS and the general accountancy system.
LS Retail quickly proves its usefulness in central management of price policies (sales promotions, discounts, mix & match favorite customers, gift cards, etc.) for the stores network, tying the headquarters to the sales centers, because time and comfort criteria are decisive for customers they choose where to go shopping.
The advantages of the unique integrator
Thanks to the experience and the know-how gather during the implementations, but also due to its mixed portfolio of software and hardware solutions, Novensys has the advantage of the „unique integrator" - only one partner who knows the business he's addressing and who is able to forecast the customer's needs. The advantage of the „unique integrator" is that the client can access a single contact point for the whole implementation process (from pre-implementation business analyses to after-sale services), he can reduce resource consumption and access a single interface (the information in any sector can be accessed in real-time with no compatibility errors).
The mobility solutions (capture, transmission and data management through bar code scanners, mobile devices and wireless Symbol infrastructure), the printing tools (Zebra printers) and infrastructure of the integrated solution (the NAV ERP, LS Retail and inventory and traceability processes supported by Novensys) come together in order to provide one coherent product, which is completely adaptable to the company's demands. "It is very important for us to be able to provide our customers with a solution that really makes the difference in permanently changing market conditions. Novensys offers all the services, from panning to implementation and continuous support, which ensures that the solution will perfectly meet our customers' needs", concluded Cezar Golumbeanu, President of the Board, Novensys.
