M.A.R.S.

Business intelligence Solutions for Retail

There are two reasons why we collect and store information: The first reason we do so is to optimise retail processes. The second reason is to analyse information that will enable us to make more effective decisions in the future. In regard to the second reason, we are able to deliver you our unique solution, encompassing powerful yet user friendly business intelligence (BI or MIS) – the solution is called M.A.R.S. In addition to hundreds of standard analysis functionalities and reports, as retailers you will be able to rely on a solution that will deliver quick and specific analysis, whenever you want and wherever you are M.A.R.S. is the powerful toll and the ultimate solution for all of your retail operation information. So extensive are its functionalities that it provides you with the option of integrating external information and/or data from your other retail systems.

How jou will benefit from using M.A.R.S.:

Act – Check – Do
With M.A.R.S. you are able to compare time periods to monitor your budgets and realisation at any level (e.g.total sales, per product group, sales area). This ensures that you know the status of your operation at any given time. Due to the extensive possibilities and the integration with third party data sources all information is available where you should require it (in the office, at home (laptop or via internet) and is just one “click” away. Whether you need regular reports or ad-hoc information, the requested information is to hand.

Quick response and analysis
M.A.R.S. will answer a large number of your questions. Whether you are concerned about sales, area efficiency, profit generated by an article(s), reflecting on last week, month, year(s) or productivity in the store, M.A.R.S. will empower you as the retailer with a “drop-and-drag” movement to view your retail information in various different ways and discover precisely what is happening. The results of your queries can be shown in report form, graphics or exported to PDF or Excel, depending on your preference.

User friendly
Our development is overseen by a Human Factors Group. This ensures that users will be able to work both easily and efficiently with our software. We can confirm that M.A.R.S. can be operated by inexperienced users and they can make their own reports and queries (questions relating to their retail information). By delivering a flexible design option, the report can be adjusted to either meet the precise requirements of the user or to fit in with the standard created for your retail operation.


The key functionalities of M.A.R.S. are:

Reports & Analysis

  • Sales / Stock / Orders
  • Movement of goods
  • Budget – Realisation
  • Exception reporting

Flexibility
  • Creation of own formulae
  • Integration external data
  • Agents for reporting
  • Export to various formats

What M.A.R.S. delivers to you:
  • All retail information for reporting and analysis is displayed in one complete overview
  • Flexible and extensive reporting possibilities (Selections, Design and Alarms)
  • It is independent from operational retail systems: consequently it can be viewed whenever you want, wherever you are…
  • Budget and Realisation view for all information with comparisons
  • Extremely user friendly for Managers as proven by all of our customers who use the system
  • Based on the very latest market standards in Technology and Retail

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