Galleria and Retail Manager Solutions LTD Form Strategic Alliance

Nov. 15, 2010 - PRLog -- Combined, the automated solutions will provide retailers with the necessary tools to successfully communicate and execute in-store activities to improve compliance and customer satisfaction across the chain.

“This partnership provides retailers with a streamlined merchandise planning, assortment and space optimization process combined with the effective communication tools required for successful execution,” said Ian Duncan-Lewis, CEO, Galleria. “We are excited to align Retail Manager’s expertise with our best-of-breed solutions to help retailers efficiently achieve true customer-centric merchandising.”

Galleria’s merchandising solution enables retailers to execute a customer-centric merchandising strategy across hundreds of categories and stores, in full recognition of the constraints applied by the supply chain, inventory requirements and in-store space.  Retail Manager Solutions application suite streamlines communication processes  throughout a retail organization to improve efficiency and effectively manage trading outlets, store employees, store actions, store capacity and trading activities.   Combined, customers will have the technology and communication resources needed to optimize initiatives including category reviews and promotions.

“Our solutions complement each other significantly and provide retailers with a complete store system to achieve significant operational savings,” said Karen Dyke, Managing Director, Retail Manager Solutions. “The best-in-class capabilities from Retail Manager and Galleria enable retailers to communicate and collaborate on promotional activity with full visibility to each store’s assortment and space constraints to ensure successful execution.”

About Galleria Retail Technology Solutions

Galleria is the leading provider of customer-centric merchandising solutions. Galleria’s solutions provide value by integrating with clients’ existing systems and resources to deliver the right product to the right stores in the right capacity. The net result is that retailers and CPG manufacturers realize significant benefits including increased sales, enhanced margins, reduced waste/mark-down and accelerated inventory turns. Galleria currently works with customers including Wal-Mart, Tesco, Safeway, Morrisons, Giant Eagle and several of the world’s leading retailers. It is currently engaged in multiple implementations of its merchandise planning solutions in large-scale live retail environments.

For more information about Galleria, visit http://www.galleria-rts.com or dial 1-866-899-0852.

About Retail Manager Solutions LTD

For over a decade RMS solutions have been enabling operational excellence in distributed environments throughout the world.  In an increasingly competitive marketplace our operational family of solutions are making a fundamental difference to organisations, allowing them to operate with minimal cost and maximum efficiency.  The ever present ambition of expansion and growth can be achieved without cost’s rising in relation to size of the organisation. Resource throughout the organisation is re-focused to core activities such as selling and value added activities rather than time consuming administration and bureaucracy. The RMS solution family relevance is demonstrated on a daily basis by the high street’s most successful organisations who constantly and demonstrably display superior innovation, success, growth and profitability.

RMS solutions are modular enabling customers to pick and choose modules to create a solution that addresses pressing business challenges quickly whilst providing the ability to grow the solution to keep pace with changing business needs, objectives & legislation. The RMS business is driven to deliver business led technology projects that result in our customers being empowered with the new found capabilities and the efficiencies that are intrinsic in our products.

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Galleria designs, develops and delivers automated Customer-Centric Merchandising™, Behavioural Cluster Planning™ and Promotional Display Optimization™ software solutions and consultancy services for some of the worlds best known retailers.