Oracle Retail practice

From strategy to implementation and support

The practice the company was built on. Every core retail system has the same purpose, but no two retailers run the same way - so we work close to your team and shape the technology around how the business actually operates.

Retail channels connected to merchandising, supply chain, fulfilment and finance systems
Core services

Five things we are called in to do

Development

New technology almost always needs customisation to fit the operation. We identify the gaps, then build to close them - or build the solution from scratch when nothing on the market fits.

  • Custom solutions development
  • Application integration
  • Software configuration and implementation
  • Testing and performance optimisation
  • Production deployment assistance

Implementation

We look at an implementation through a strategic lens: how best practice meets your legacy systems, where the gaps are, and what future growth will demand of the design.

  • Application implementation and configuration
  • Quality assurance and testing
  • Payment and security certification assistance
  • Data conversion, migration and deployment standardisation
  • Production readiness, deployment planning and stabilisation

Support

From first go-live through continuing roll-outs, our support sits alongside your own maintenance programme - an extra layer without the extra overhead.

  • Software life-cycle support
  • Operational monitoring and troubleshooting
  • Data correction and reprocessing
  • System and software upgrades
  • Stability analysis and staff training

Technology planning

A smart strategy is the foundation of any technology estate. We help you decide what software you actually need and build the business case that carries it - including the change management that decides whether people adopt it.

  • Business case development
  • Change management guidance
  • Architectural and business process analysis
  • Solution evaluation

Training

Corporate and online training on retail and enterprise technologies, delivered on-site or offshore, so your team is prepared and comfortable with the system when it launches rather than three months later.

Staff augmentation

More than seventy retail subject matter experts available to strengthen your team for a phase, a peak season or a full programme.

Retail specialisms

Where retail projects usually get difficult

Retail integration

We have delivered close to every integration pattern the retail estate throws up, connecting new, legacy, cloud-based and on-premise systems into something that reconciles at the end of the day.

Omni-channel fulfilment

Fulfilment and returns need one enterprise view of customer, inventory, item, order and payment. We build towards that view rather than around it.

Store operations

Stores are where the brand becomes real. We help shape a store operations strategy that gives associates the tools, technology and training to serve customers and protect profitability.

Omni-channel retailing

Consistent price, promotion, stock and service across every channel a customer touches - including the awkward paths like buy online, return in store.

Merchandising & pricing

Item, hierarchy, cost, price and promotion data kept consistent across the systems that consume it, so downstream reporting is not an act of interpretation.

Upgrades & modernisation

Version upgrades, re-platforming and selective modernisation planned so the business keeps trading throughout.

What comes next

Retail data is the best starting point for AI

The retailers we work with are being asked what they are doing about AI. The honest answer usually starts with the data already sitting in the merchandising and order systems we help run - which is a far better place to begin than a generic pilot.

  • Demand and replenishment forecasting on your own sales history
  • Markdown and promotion decisions with margin constraints made explicit
  • Assistants for store and support teams, answering from your own procedures
  • Catalogue enrichment and attribute generation, reviewed before publishing
A retrieval augmented AI pipeline from enterprise knowledge to grounded answers and actions

Is a retail programme off track?

We regularly take over from integrators who over-promised. Tell us where it stands and we will give you an unvarnished view of the recovery path.