Financial solutions for Retail businesses.

1. In business for people.
Retail business
pains & Unit4
solutions

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The situation
• Fickle consumers, unpredictable
weather, new trends, fashions and
competitors.
• Retailers operate in a constantly
changing landscape.
• Flexibility and scalability are
hardwired into retailers’ DNA.
Their finance system must support that.

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New channels are exploding,
e-commerce is predicted to grow 11.8%
every year to 2019* and m-commerce
even faster, but most retailers don’t have
mobile sites, apps or tablet-optimised
interfaces.
If you ignore these channels and their
revenue, do you think your rivals will
too?
*Ibis World

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But new channels aren’t free and with
consumers able to shop anywhere for the
best deal, there’s more pressure on
margins than ever.
Cost control is vital but not at the expense
of being flexible and able to scale up and
down to respond to demand.
Just ask HMV.
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Costs, profits, losses, revenue, margins.
Everything comes down to money.
Your finance system has to be the eyes
and ears at the core of your operation.
It must give you an accurate, real-time
view of everything that affects your
profitability.

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Having visibility of sales, margins, stock,
profits and cash reconciliation gives you
the ability to analysis performance and
the flexibility to respond to the market.
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Modern challenges demand
technological solutions.
Your finance system must offer
integration, multiple deployment options,
intuitive interfaces and the ability to
support expansion – both here and
across the world.
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Real-time databases, providing essential
retailing information and available to
store staff, web team, warehouse and
purchasing give a single version of the
truth.
SALES REPORTING
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Above all your vendor must have the right credentials
and a track record of delivering success in retail.
Over 350 leading retailers, including the world’s largest
brands rely on Unit4 Financials for precise financial
information and real-time reporting, better process
automation and greater business performance: