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Ibs Promotions: Organise the complete lifecycle of Promotions building
Today, the retailers evolve in a fast moving world and need to attack the market and their competitor with innovating products, attractive price and good negotiation.

One of the strategies used by the retailer is the Promotion. Promotion is not limited to the application of a discounted price on products. It goes beyond through an entire Promotional Event with consistent products offer: daily used products with discounted price, new and innovative products, targeted product depending on the customer profile. Promotional Event aims the retailers at attracting more customers to generate more sales and improving their image (pricing image, products image) faced to their customers and competitors.
ibs Promotions is a solution helping the retailers to build their promotional activities through a unified end-to-end business process that will facilitate timely decision-making, communication and coordination.

All operational departments, such as Marketing team, Purchasing Department or Financial Department are involved in the management and the implementation of the promotional strategies. ibs Promotions will help the synchronization of all these teams and gives a single version of the truth all along the Promotion Building process. Executive Management team can use dashboards, complete and easy to use, to control the event. Our solution enables also these departments to easily communicate in real time at the stores level where the directions of stores can have some decision-making position and can set daily optimization. Ibs Promotions facilitates communication with external actors, such as the advertising agency, the printer or the flyer distributor.

ibs Promotions management for retail is a fully integrated and comprehensive system for managing and executing effective promotions. Modular in nature, it allows retailers to implement the promotion based on their current and prospective future business needs and to support any change in their organization.

"Single shared version of the truth of the promotional activity"

Coordinating information among departments and systems is a challenge to retailers. They need accurate insight into which promotional characteristics best fit their strategies and targets. Retailers often have to evaluate multiple scenarios that involve trade-offs, for example how to maximize supplier trade funds for each promotional event while at the same time applying available media budget to maximize the promotion's financial return.

Business Benefits:

Promotion policy must balance quantitative objectives, budget, time, locations and media. ibs Promotions from Soft Solutions is dedicated to the task of managing the promotional offers through planning, event preparation, execution at point-of-sale, follow-up in real time. Furthermore, our solution provides measurement of return on investment, comparison with competitor media prices, and drafting catalog before sending it off for printing.

Some of the proven outcomes of our Promotions management for Retail includes the following:
  • Gain time in the Promotional Building Execution
  • Enhancing visibility of the entire promotional process
  • Centralizing information in a same application involving different department of the organization
  • Real-time Optimization of the flow between the different actors
  • Generating targeted reports for different business purpose
  • Adaptation to all kinds of organization, current or future, for each banner
  • Improving promotional pricing accuracy
  • Contributing to the price image, and the modernity perception (Highlighting the new products)
  • Designing Flyer content
  • Time Saving thanks to duplication, mass-creation and template

Main features:

Executing promotions has always been a challenge due to the multitude of systems and manual processes that do not communicate together. In order to plan and execute successful promotions, ibs Promotions allows you to have accurate information at the right time to set the promotional calendar, collaborate with suppliers, plan promotional items, forecast sales, design and produce media advertising and communicate with stores regarding in-store displays elements.
  • An efficient Promotional planner
  • Optimal Event creating and monitoring Solution
  • Media Design and Communication
  • Documentation

Soft Solutions provides to the retailers a flexible solution that facilitates timely decision-making, communication and coordination between departments.