Retail

Transmission Wizard in the Retail Industry

If you are like most retail IT executives today, you are worried about getting data to the right people for the organization’s decision making. Your organization may offer thousands of products, ring up millions of sales across the globe and be very fast in responding to your clients. To do this your people need data for (1) inventory control and tracking, (2) purchase orders, (3) pricing and promotions, (4) sales tracking and (5) customer relationship management. It’s a daunting task. You have to have the right POS, inventory and reporting system, and integrate with your suppliers and partners and all this is needed to get the right data to the right people at the right time. Your ability to provide this data impacts your company’s bottom line.

Data Dialect’s Transmission Wizard™ for Retail middleware solutions has been proven to transmit data between many proprietary, and incompatible, systems. With Transmission Wizard™, your staff can integrate data into your decision making from numerous suppliers, international affiliates and partners, even if the original data came from incompatible systems, without having to write and test a lot of custom code. Later, when you need to add a manufacturer, an international sales office, loyalty partner or off-price vendor, all you need is to make changes in our easy-to-use console. Furthermore, Transmission Wizard™ is fully compatible with current and any future data security requirements.

For example, Data Dialect recently helped a $700 million company transmit their international sales and inventory from over a dozen different countries. With Transmission Wizard™ they were able to guarantee that the files where formatted correctly for the receiving system and that all records with errors were identified and either corrected or set aside for further action. Error-free and correctable records were never delayed. With Transmission Wizard’s™ configurable engine they quickly add additional data processing functionally that allowed them to eliminate the need for another $50,000 piece of software. Previously, entire weeks of international sales data were held up due to errors within each batch.

As data is transmitted from one system to another in the value chain, errors are often passed on or can halt an entire system. Transmission Wizard™ checks data even when your internal systems and partners do not, and it identifies and removes data errors. Transmission Wizard’s™ easy to use console has an extensive set of configurable error correction tools that can autocorrect the most common errors without writing any code. Error reports pinpoint the exact error and where it is located, giving your staff the information to quickly fix errors and preventing the errors from reoccurring in the future.

Another source of significant errors and expense is the manual re-keying of information from one system to another, internally or with your partners. With Transmission Wizard™, your staff can electronically transfer the data, saving the time and eliminating the errors associated with manually transferring data, particularly with independent suppliers and affiliates.

Transmission Wizard™ is a tested and flexible solution for data transmission that greatly decreases the time for implementing new systems and compatibility issues between systems. Data Dialect can help you provide the right information at the right time, and save your budget at the same time. At Data Dialect, we know how much data impacts the decision-making process, and with Transmission Wizard™, your organization will be ready for today’s ever more competitive retail market.