Oracle Retail Store Inventory Management

Inventory management is a costly and time-consuming activity for any retail organization. Today's competitive retail environment requires real-time data communication between stores and the corporate office for store-level activities—including item look-up, stock counts, and transfers—in order to improve the quality of inventory information, in-store efficiency, and sell-through. Oracle Retail Store Inventory Management provides real-time, multi-channel access to centralized perpetual inventory for all channels. It can streamline in-store activities, improve merchandise management and productivity, reduce labor costs, support remote store processes, and manage store-level profit and loss. Using a high-speed internet connection and portable or handheld wireless devices, store managers and store personnel can now quickly and easily perform an array of in-store operations, including receiving merchandise, managing physical inventories, conducting stock counts, ordering merchandise, and transferring stock.

• Streamlines management of store-labor expenses for reduced costs
• Improves control of inventory management, for reduced carrying costs
• Prevents stock-outs and overstock using in-store location level tracking
• Helps "save the sale" by using real-time cross-store inventory access
• Maximizes staff availability to customers for improved customer service and satisfaction
• Streamlines in-store processes for increased efficiency
• Minimizes the need for extensive staff training
• Enables the performance of back-office business functions anywhere in the store
• Facilitates the rapid delivery of merchandise to the sales floor, so that customers find the items they want
• Allows the tracking of merchandise movement within the supply chain for improved visibility
• Assists with maintaining accurate perpetual inventory with full inventory stock count capability