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Enhancing customer loyalty Benefits THUS services
Retailers have made significant investment in understanding customers and their drivers via CRM systems. The investment that allows the personalised information to make a real difference in-store includes mobile access to systems and a single view of the customer via improved access to central core systems.  Improved loyalty
 Improved satisfaction
 Optimised customer
    contact
 Improved customer
    retention
 Increased revenue
 Outsourced server
    hosting and data
    hosting
 Distribution networks
    for content
 Security solutions to
    protect customer data
 IPVPN MPLS or
    National Ethernet for
    more effective
    networking
Improving
customer self-help
Benefits THUS services
Technologies such as in-store media and self-service portals that were previously used for revenue generation can be extended to focus on information gathering and customer interaction with their own records.  Real-time information
 Informed customers
 Increased sales
 Greater customer
    usability
 Improved customer
    relationship
 Storage networks
 Outsourced server
    hosting and data
    hosting
 Distribution networks
    for content
 Ecommerce and
    system integration
Improved supply chain decision making / business intelligence Benefits THUS services
Retailers need solutions that will enable them to react quickly to changes in demand or peaks resulting from marketing campaigns. By capturing store sales data in real time, retailers can respond to in-store trends quickly. Joint access to real-time information and collaboration tools, enables retailers and their partners to optimise forecasting and delivery.  Shorter product
    to market times
 Better supplier
    relationships
 Optimum stock levels
 Faster response to
    changing market
    conditions
 Intranets and extranets
 Server hosting
 MPLS IP VPN
 System integration
 National Ethernet
Improved sales performance Benefits THUS services
Effective store sales performance requires coordination of marketing, product information and staff training. Intranets and extranets support effective communication and delivery of marketing and training content.  Faster time to market
 Better return on
    marketing
 Higher levels of staff
    product knowledge
 Enhanced training
    capabilities
 Content distribution
    networks
 Intranet and extranet
 Video on demand
 MPLS IP VPN
Greater staff productivity Benefits THUS services
Retailers can improve sales staff productivity by reducing the administrative burden, ensuring contactability and giving them mobile access to information and tools when they are on the move.  Improved productivity
 Reduced
    administration
 Empowerment
    for mobile staff
 Staff always in contact
 Wireless solutions
 IP communications
 Intranet
 Store connectivity
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