Merchandise Planning Software - Get ARC Merchandise Analytics Brochure You’ll see that ARC consists of a large range of role-based reports,dashboards and analyses that help you with strategic, tactical as well as day-to-day decisions.

1. What you keep
off your shelves,
is as important as
what you keep
on them.
But knowing that
doesn’t make
the decisions
easie
any easier.
ARC
e
erchandis
M
Analytics
can help.

2. First, a few words about us.
We, are Manthan Systems. And we specialize in delivering
cutting-edge, synergistic solutions that enable decision making
for businesses like yours, across the retail and consumer
products industries.
Products and services designed to help you achieve a
significant business advantage, while equipping you with that
vital technical edge.
You´ll find that we bring to the table an ideal blend of deep
domain expertise across the retail analytics spectrum, and
flawless, core technical expertise across platforms. And this, is
how we deliver solutions that create real business value, for you.
What
is
ARC
Merchandise
Analytics?
You’ll find ARC Merchandise Analytics a
comprehensive performance management solution for
retail merchandising. This award-winning solution helps
you analyze performance all the way from your supply
chain, to store level. And, it’s designed to help you
discover and leverage hidden relationships between
products, customers, promotions and multi-channels.
With ARC, you’ll enjoy optimized decision making,
across areas like optimizing merchandise and
assortment performance, maximizing sell-through,
controlling shrinkage, tracking new product
performance, optimizing markdown and promotions,
improving price realization, rationalizing products,
and allocation optimization.

3. So how exactly does ARC enable decision making?
You’ll see that ARC consists of a large range of role-based reports,
dashboards and analyses that help you with strategic, tactical as well as
day-to-day decisions.
This is what helps you transform your decision making practices from gut
instinct, to fact-based, business transforming intelligence.
With ARC, your data is no longer unwieldy and unusable. Instead, you have
at your disposal an intelligently designed tool for real-world business
decisions and analytic functions. A tool that provides you action oriented
information, not mere data. A tool that engages you across the entire
decision lifecycle - from information access, to interpretation, insights and
business action.
“The retail-specific capabilities of ARC have given our business managers a
powerful platform for retail analysis that aid their category management,
operations performance and inventory management decision making
processes. There are huge opportunities in data and hidden relationships
between product, customer and store data sets, waiting to be discovered
with the right business intelligence solution.”
- Harrison Lewis, CIO, Haggen
Who uses ARC
Merchandise Analytics?
ARC provides analytics across all key roles
in merchandising, including:
• Divisional Merchandise Managers
• Heads of Merchandising
• Category / Department Managers
• Merchandise Analysts and Planners
• Buyers and Allocators

4. Promotion and Markdown Analysis
• Track promotion effectiveness with lift percentage,
target achievement and ROI
• Track stock availability and buying needs based on
rate of sale during promotion period
• Track plan against actual markdowns, analyze
overall markdown impact on margin, and optimize
markdowns by analyzing sell-through trends
Supplier Analysis
• Compare suppliers of similar products on
performance metrics like sales contribution, margin
percentage, stock contribution and rebates
• Provide access to vendors to track stock-on-hand
positions by location to reduce stock-outs and
improve delivery time
• Rank vendors based on scorecards that track
supplier service metrics such as fill-rate, on-time
and quality of delivery, and performance metrics like
sales, margin, stock and rebates
•
Allocation optimization
•
New product performance
•
Improving sell-through
•
Non-moving stock
•
Discontinuing products
•
Lowering markdowns
•
Assortment mix
•
Variable demand response
•
Growth contributors
•
Assortment productivity
•
Stock distribution
•
Style variety
•
Demographic sales
•
Shifting demand patterns
•
Ongoing order revisions
•
Geographic demand variability
•
Market performance
•
Store demand visibility
•
Pack size variability
•
Promotion visibility
•
Purchasing monitoring and control
•
Store pricing and promotion
Retailers across segments deploy ARC
to maximize profits and leverage opportunities.
Food and Grocery
Inventory Analysis
• Streamline retail distribution to minimize inventory
carrying costs, stock-outs and markdowns
• Identify
stock
movement
and
liquidation
opportunities by tracking stock ageing and
non-moving stocks
• Identify negative margin items and stock holding trends
Merchandise assortment
Fashion and Lifestyle
Merchandise Analysis
• Track merchandise plan, OTB plan against actuals,
and drive assortment and allocation decisions
• Optimize merchandise mix based on a composite
index of margin and sales value
• Track sell-through and stock-to-sale ratios by brand/
category/items, to formulate specific sales strategies
• Identify potential cross-sell and up-sell opportunities
by means of Market Basket Analysis (MBA)
•
Mass Merchandise
Sales Analysis
• Track store performance based on key metrics like
target achievements, margin percentage, growth
over last year, growth in average selling price and
quantity per ticket against store clusters, regions
and corporate
• Evaluate the impact of store size and employee
strength on sales and resultant margins at various
levels of merchandise categories
• Identify sales, margin growth and contribution by sales
channels (regular store, discount store, web, catalog)
Additional pre-configured analysis areas
Specialty
What can ARC do?
You’ll find that ARC is designed to provide you
business transforming answers to merchandising
questions, through pre-built analyses like:

5. How does ARC create value, for my business?
You’ll find that ARC Merchandise Analytics defines the next generation in
decision making technology for merchandisers. With a pre-built approach,
combined with best practice analytic capabilities, ARC truly delivers on the
promise of business intelligence. Some of the unique benefits ARC provides are:
Role-based Analytics
You’ll see that ARC’s role-based analytic applications meet the complete
spectrum of your decision making needs for merchandising. And that it’s
designed to provide specific analytic configurations for the strategic,
tactical and operational needs of all levels of decision makers, including
department
heads,
assortment
planners,
allocators,
buyers,
merchandizing heads etc.
“Not only does this retail
decision-making solution give us
immediate advantages with insights
to improve our performance, but
ARC Retail Business Intelligence
also provides us a lasting
competitive advantage by making it
easy for everyone to use retail
analytics in their roles and
responsibilities. Our decision
makers love ARC’s pre-packaged,
role-based analytic applications.”
- Wendy Reeve, BI Director, Foodland
Completely aligned with your people and processes
…with role-based decision-making capabilities
An example of the ‘category manager’ role
Merchandising
Category Manager
Category
Performance
Scorecards
Key questions a category
manager needs answers to
Marketing
• How is the category plan
performing at region, market and
cluster levels?
Store
Operations
• Which category tactics are leading
to increased revenue and
profitability?
Buying &
Sourcing
• What is the impact of my ongoing
promotions, price changes,
allocation/ re-allocations?
• Which of the category initiatives is
not delivering?
Planning
Customer
Management
Human
Resources
ARC meets the
unique decision
making needs of
every role
Category Initiative
Tracking (Promotion
Dashboards)
Weekly Category
Review Report
Packs
Key Vendor
Performance Reports
• How are the more effective
suppliers driving category growth?
Category
Sell-though Alerts
• Do the category role/ objective
assumptions continue to be valid?
• Which categories are unprofitable?
Competitive/Mark
et Performance
Benchmarking
Roles
ARC provides analytics
that are in line with the
decision making needs of
specific roles. In this case,
a category manager.
Faster time-to-benefits
ARC’s pre-built philosophy allows BI owners to deliver the application in the
hands of business users, in the shortest possible time - a critical determinant
of BI success. Compared with a similar deployment of a traditional BI
platform, ARC can be implemented in a fraction of the time (12-16 weeks).
Faster ROI, Lower TCO
TIME AND
EFFORT
16 months
12 months
8 months
Multi Vendor Management
20 months
Changes,
new requirements,
enhancements
Save costs in delivering changing needs
and maintaining the system
Go-live
User Testing
Performance Tuning
Huge $$ savings in deployment costs
Systems Testing
Reports Development
ETL Development
Deliver BI and Analytics faster
Go-Live
Deployment Planning
1 month
DW or Marts Development
Data Modeling
4 months
New reports, customizations,
functional extension, new data sources
Front end customizations
Requirement Gathering
ETL Development
Requirements Gap & Source System Analysis
Traditional BI
ARC Retail BI
ARC’s ease of
implementation results in
time and cost benefits,
for your business.
Left: A comparison of
traditional BI vs. ARC
implementation

6. Self-Service BI Architecture
Since ARC is designed to maximize usability for business users, this results
in minimal dependency on administrators and tech-savvy power users. With
superior data visualizations, smart utilities, and a highly intuitive user interface
design, you’ll find ARC extremely user-friendly. In other words, ARC makes
analysts of your business users.
Accelerates Analytic Maturity
With a combination of unique characteristics like a highly attractive licensing
model (that doesn’t penalize incremental use of the product), high usability and
high scalability, ARC enables faster adoption of analytic best practices across
your organisation. This in turn, progressively improves your organization’s
analytic maturity, a key strategic differentiator in smarter businesses.
Retail business intelligence /
performance management maturity model
Step 4:
Orchestrating
Step 3:
Collaborating
Step 2:
Anticipating
Enterprise Performance
• Cross functional
Step 1:
Reacting
Process Performance
• Cascading strategy
Point Performance
• Single/siloed process
• Departmental
• Cross departmental
• Project driven
• Consistent/automated
• Common processes and
definitions
• Tool-based (including
spreadsheets)
• Process efficiency
• Process modelling
• Process analysis and
optimization
• Collaboration and workflow
• Quick implementation
Ex: Workforce performance
budgeting and KPI tracking
• Limited scope
Ex: Flash sales reports
• Role-based
• Deep but insular view of
the enterprise
Ex: Merchandise financial plans
flowed to planners;
assortments that meet plans
flowed to buyers; buying plans
executed, and shared with
logistics team
Technical
Multiyear Effort
Inside Out
Focus
New retail dashboards are
action-focused.
Manthan Systems was featured in this
Gartner research focusing on the latest
dashboard technologies. Gartner
Research VP, Mr. Hung LeHong says,
“Dashboards are now more
‘action-focused’. Role-based design
and access to operational data have
evolved the dashboard into something
employees can use in day-to-day
operations. Part of making the
dashboard more operational is making
it tailored to specific operational roles in
the business. Now, getting the right
data to the right person makes these
next-generation dashboards more
relevant.”
(Source: Hung LeHong,
Research VP, Gartner)
Pervasive Performance
• Business value driven
• Performance culture
• Contextual push alerts
• External measures and
collaboration
• Holistic modeling
• Aligned incentives
• Shared risk/reward
• Comprehensive view of the
enterprise
Ex: New product design and
introduction is planned and
executed with suppliers and
across all relevant functional
processes
Culture/Philosopy
Outside In
Source: AMR Research
Low Total Cost of Ownership
ARC’s pre-built approach and a faster deployment save retailers significant
time and money. You can save significant operating and maintenance costs
with ARC’s low administration and affordable scalability.
A proven “Game Changer” in retail businesses
Over 40 retail organizations around the world deploy ARC Merchandise
Analytics to transform the way they operate, compete, and innovate. Analysts
like Gartner and AMR Research recognize ARC as a leading player in the
retail business intelligence space. So it’s no surprise, that ARC has won
several industry awards with ground-breaking innovations that are bringing
about transformational changes in retail merchandising today.
Moving decision-making from wishful thinking to wisdom.
Manthan Systems was featured in this AMR Research report on the
leading vendors in retail business intelligence. The report defines Manthan
Systems as a “Retail BI specialist aiming to take the guesswork and big
decisions out of the equation by predicting much of what retailers need,
based on their understanding of the retail business.”
(Source: Janet Suleski, AMR Research)
What is
Analytic Maturity?

7. “While ARC is a comprehensive solution for all aspects of
decision making, like operational BI and performance
management, it’s ARC’s usability and role-based guided
analytics that has made it a favorite among our decision
makers. In all respects, ARC behaves like it’s built for our
organization, and its thoughtful design and application
are its biggest strengths.”
- Thelma G. Roxas, VP & CIO,
Robinsons
Technology Benefits
• Delivers high performance on large data volumes
• Single, unified architecture and user interface
• Platform agnostic, yet proven to work successfully
on all major platforms
• Retail-centric algorithms and models
• Multi-currency, multi-language and multiple retail
format support
• Designed to handle multiple and parallel hierarchies,
and concurrent time calendars
Cost of Ownership Benefits
• The effort and cost involved with configuration and
maintenance of ARC is 1/10th that of a generic BI
solution
• Rapid 12-16 week deployment lifecycle
• The pre-built proposition of ARC radically alters
traditional DW deployment lifecycle
• Retailers no longer need to appoint multiple external
vendors to manage the deployment lifecycle
• Brings down the hardware and infrastructure
requirements for solution deployment
“The retail-specific capabilities of ARC and its best
practice approach gave us the ability to move much
faster than we would have been able to do with more
generic solutions. In our very dynamic business we need
to be able to keep our finger on the pulse at all times and
ARC will enable us to do just that.”
- Peter Crowne, Finance Director,
GAME Group plc
The Manthan Advantage
• Manthan’s core competency is in the understanding
of retail and all associated technology and statistical
sciences
• Manthan facilitates customer success by adopting
an end-to-end, full-lifecycle approach
• Each of Manthan’s products and services caters to
the entire spectrum of a retailer’s need for BI and PM
Why choose ARC?
Business Benefits
• Entire organization onboard with BI quickly
• Alignment with retail business processes and
practices
• Makes analysts out of business users
• Improves margins, inventory efficiency, promotion
effectiveness, and fewer markdowns
• Unique pricing mechanism encourages higher
BI adoption
• Orchestrates performance management culture

8. What is ARC’s technology architecture?
Built for retail, ARC’s technologically superior engine understands and
anticipates retail data structures, ensures rapid deployment (less than 4
months) and a high return on investment.
The ARC platform offers many ‘industry-first’ technologies, like a Hybrid
OLAP (HOLAP) model with in-memory cubing, aggregate-aware query
mechanisms, n-hierarchy architecture, auto query generation, auto KPI
rendering, and advanced visualization techniques and tools.
The ARC BI platform enables a variety of analytic capabilities like:
• Information delivery of role-based analytics through intuitive dashboards,
reports, and scorecards
• Business activity monitoring through alerts, subscriptions, Q&A engine
• Wide range of built-in analysis capabilities like multi-dimensional OLAP,
scorecarding, benchmarking, trending, comparative analysis and various
other analysis methods
• Pervasive access of the system through web-based and mobile-based
user interfaces
• Comprehensive, industrial strength security and administration capabilities
• Collaborative decision making capabilities
ARC technology highlights.
• Out-of-box single platform for analytical
and reporting solutions
• Extensive pre-built retail metrics and
reports
• High performance, minimal maintenance
• High degree of flexibility; ease of
customization
• Deployment in weeks, not months
Optimized retail enterprise data
warehouse model
• Highly scalable standards-driven BI
platform
• Intuitive web-based front end for users
and administrators
• Unified dimension modeling architecture
spanning ROLAP and MOLAP
capabilities
• Integrates seamlessly with diverse retail
transaction systems – from home-grown
applications to ERPs to spreadsheets
• Platform and database agnostic
construct
In short, the platform offers everything you need for retail business intelligence.
ARC is constructed as a scalable, layered architecture with a tiered business
and analytics engine that enables easy customization. Componentized
architecture permits plug-and-play deployment with prevalent ETL, data
warehouse, OLAP or reporting tools. With pre-built integrators for leading
ERP platforms like JDA and SAP, ARC leverages and extends the
capabilities your existing technology investments.
ARC technology architecture
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