Chief Financial Officer
As a CFO, you would already appreciate that without a good computer system a retail chain cannot be run cost-effectively. Without a good computer system, the retailer cannot meet the standards of proper corporate governance either.
From your perspective, you need a computer system that adds up, works well, reliably, with cost efficiency. You need a system that will assist in informed decision making, that will allow you to exercise proper internal control and that will produce high integrity reports. You will also want it to be modern and flexible, so you do not have put the organisation through the pain of system change every few years.
The proven, retail-specific Retail Directions system enables you to achieve substantial gains in areas such as:
- Warehouse efficiency
- Stock shrinkage reduction
- Capturing detailed and accurate management accounting data
- Stock distribution management to reduce mark-downs
- Fast and flexible reporting
- Easy integration with any financial system you choose.
- Gross profit management and tracking, to improve the bottom line.
The experience of our existing customers shows that our system pays for itself within the first year of operation. This means you could literally fund it from your operating cash flow.
Numerous retail chains use Retail Directions software, some of them publicly listed. The systems from Retail Directions were built exclusively for retail. They work well. They come fully integrated, highly reliable and very cost effective.
From the CFO's perspective, if you want the right IT backbone to support your corporate objectives, to meet the requirements of corporate governance, if you want to optimize your IT and if you want to minimise risk, then the Retail Directions solution should be perfect for you.