Systech Integrators, Inc

A Road Map to Becoming Consumer-Driven

Industry Trends

The economic crisis is accelerating consumer trends and creating a greater urgency for consumer product companies to address new marketplace realities. The consumer product manufacturing companies need to innovate and adapt to meet the increasing number of challenges/ opportunities. The consumer product companies are striving for improvements in supply chain, customer relationship and visibility in information.

While the financial performance of the US consumer products industry has fared better in the recent economic times than retailers, many companies continued to face intense competition, slow growth in their developed markets, rising costs, a growth on private label brands and a shift in power to the retailer and waning pricing power. The sector is highly dependent on household income to drive sales and is price sensitive to economic issues such as rising input commodity prices, energy costs, interest rates, unemployment, a weakening dollar and consumer confidence levels.

In order to remain competitive in today's changing world, consumer products manufacturers need to ensure they remain focused on the long-term horizon and are attuned to shifting consumer demographics, discerning purchase behaviour, the increasing influence of digital media on brand information and value decisions, and the importance of corporate social responsibility, all while focusing on driving top line growth and protecting margins.

Learn how Consumer product manufacturing companies are overcoming these challenges and taking advantage of the opportunities with help from Systech

Globalization. Escalating costs. Ever-changing customer preferences and retailer and regulatory requirements. To thrive in this environment, consumer products manufacturers must develop new ways to become more consumer-driven and stay ahead of the competition, while further establishing a foundation for profitable growth.

With its industry-specific processes, best practices, and technology, SAP for Consumer Products serves as a business process platform, enabling innovation of your core business processes.

How Does the SAP's Solution for Consumer Products Drive Business Improvements?
Systech can enable SAP's comprehensive suite of applications, integrated with leading business support and analytical software, to optimize key end-to-end business processes - and achieve key business goals:

Systech for Retail

Retail Management Software by Systech

Industry Challenges

The Retail industry is a consumer-driven industry and the recent economic turmoil and marketplace forces have created a challenging environment. The economic crisis is accelerating consumer trends and creating a greater urgency for retailers to address new marketplace realities. Retailers will be increasingly constrained in their ability to grow and maintain profit margins as a result of high operating expenses, market saturation, the rise of multichannel buying, an aging population, less affluent buyers, diminished consumer loyalty and the rise of digital media to influence purchase decisions.

In order to remain competitive in today's changing world and ensure future success, retailers will need to ensure they remain focused on the long-term horizon and find innovative solutions to create value fiercely reduce operating costs and mitigate risks throughout the entire enterprise.

How Systech can help you overcome the challenges

Retailers are operating in a world vastly different from a few years ago. A challenging market, coupled with competition from around the world and an abundance of information available at shoppers' fingertips, makes today's shopper more powerful than ever. Additionally, retailers need to operate across channels as efficiently as possible, which means breaking down organizational silos that prevent profitable multichannel retailing. Finally, intensified competition and changing technology mean that every retailer must find new and powerful ways to innovate and differentiate as quickly as possible.

The SAP for Retail solution portfolio provides grocery, hardlines, and softlines retailers with a means to turn today's challenges into opportunities with solutions that help drive profitable multichannel retailing by offering retailers the insight to better understand your shoppers and business, the operational efficiency to ensure profit, and the adaptability to capitalize on the best opportunities to grow.

Systech can enable retailers with proven SAP solutions for:

• Business Intelligence
• Customer Loyalty
• Merchandising
• Merchandise and Assortment Planning
• Price Optimization
• Promotion Management
• Forecasting and Replenishment
• Warehouse Management
• Workforce Management
• Point-Of-Sale
• Sustainability Performance Management

Systech for Wholesale Distribution

Solutions for the Challenges You Face Every Business Day

Industry Challenges & Systech's Solutions to Address the Challenges

Faced with shrinking margins, cost pressures, and new competitors, many wholesalers are changing their business models to improve customer loyalty - offering value-added services or outsourcing core business processes to reduce costs.

SAP's solution for Wholesale Distribution addresses the needs of both midsize and large wholesale distribution businesses in a wide range of segments, including food and beverage, healthcare, high-tech, and industrial.

Systech can support the core components of your business, with SAP applications for:

• Planning
• Procurement
• Warehouse management
• Sales order management
• Business analytics