Integration of business management applications

At the centre of every retailer's operations is a suite of management applications designed to help facilitate the smooth running of the business. These commonly comprise a merchandising system such as MMS, a suite of financials, an EpoS system and warehouse stock inventory applications. With increasing frequency retailers are surrounding these with further niche applications designed for very specific purposes. These include range planning applications that feed into replenishment systems, store layout applications that define the management of a store's shelf displays, data warehousing and mining systems for data interrogation and sales synergy tracking applications that help identify purchasing patterns.

Individually useful, these applications benefit from close and effective integration. To achieve this Astech uses its broad knowledge of retail applications to build effective interfaces between them, thereby improving the retailer's return on investment.