1 Overview

Merchandising refers to both the cloud service version of the solution, Oracle Retail Merchandising Foundation Cloud Service, as well as the on-premise version, Oracle Retail Merchandising System. This document covers Merchandising and some of the key considerations when implementing this solution and touches on impacts to the other solutions in the Merchandising suite, Trade Management, Sales Audit, Pricing, Invoice Matching, and Allocation.

Merchandising is the foundation for retailers that records and controls virtually all data in the retail enterprise and ensures data integrity across all integrated systems. Merchandising includes key functions such as item maintenance, inventory management, and replenishment. This functionality provides easy access to the information that is crucial to the day-to-day merchandising activities within a retail organization, providing the ability to focus on key decisions that help achieve sales and profit targets. Merchandising streamlines business practices and unifies business systems across retail channels to better serve customers. Because Merchandising has been developed as a web-based, scalable product, it fully supports the large volumes found in retail, leaving more time for retailers to concentrate on the bottom line.

This document outlines some of the key implementation considerations that you should review when planning a Merchandising implementation to help configure the solution to best meet your business processes and maximize benefits from the solution.