ARC from Manthan Systems, is the most comprehensive analytics and performance management solution available to the fashion & lifestyle industry today. The solution is designed to explicitly address the nuances of fashion & apparel retail like seasonality, time sensitivity, demand variability across geographies & customers, as well as merchandise characteristics of style, size, color, fabric, fit, finish to name a few. ARC is an out-of-the-box solution that provides the industry's widest range of analytics for all key roles like merchandisers, planners, buyers, allocators, and operations.
Retailers who are using ARC have realized benefits such as:
Improved margins by reducing product cost, increasing full-price sales and making markdowns more effective
Improved new product performance by improving on-shelf availability and consumer adoption
Optimized pricing of private-label merchandise for better margin performance
Synchronized the supply (buying)and demand (selling) processes to improve shelf availability reduce lead times, increase profits, and reduce losses
Reduced the occurrence of cut-sizes by better allocation based on optimal sell-through and accurate size profiling by store and geo-demographics
ARC Features
Comprehensive library of retail KPIs
Retail-specific Business Intelligence and data warehouse suite
Dashboards and scorecards for performance management
Built-in retail analytics and reporting
Intuitive information access & delivery architecture
Multi-dimensional OLAP cube analysis
Actionable, collaborative and proactive Business Intelligence capabilities
Intelligent Q&A engine
Business activity monitoring
Built-in data integration tool
ARC Benefits
Most comprehensive range of analytics for fashion retailing.
Highest on business benefits index (BBI).
Only solution that supports decision-making planning to buying, merchandising, marketing and operations.
Full-scale Business Intelligence solution - deploys in less than 16 weeks.
Highest proven ROI and lowest TCO in the industry.
Retailers like Gianfranco Ferré, Robinsons department stores and Woolworth department stores use ARC for competitive advantage by optimizing merchandise performance, identifying and fixing recurring problems, analyzing deeper into top and bottom performers, uncovering hidden opportunities through better demand anticipation and superior store executions. Now you can get the power of ARC.