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ORACLE RETAIL STORE 

INVENTORY MANAGEMENT 

PROVIDES REAL­TIME, 

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KEY CAPABILITIES 

•  Streamline in­store activities, 

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merchandise, conducting 

stock counts, ordering 

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stock  

•  Improve merchandise 

management and productivity  

•  Reduce labor costs  

•  Support remote store 

processes  

•  Manage store­level profit and 

loss 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Figuure 1. Oracle Retail Store Inventory Management Stock Item Detail 

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Benefits of Store Inventory Management

• Prevents stock-outs and overstock using in-store location level tracking

• Helps “save the sale” by using real-time cross-store inventory access

• Maximizes staff availability to customers for improved customer service

and satisfaction

• Streamlines in-store processes for increased efficiency

• Improves control of inventory management, for reduced carrying costs

• Minimizes the need for extensive staff training

• Enables the performance of back-office business functions anywhere in

the store

• Facilitates the rapid delivery of merchandise to the sales floor, so that

customers find the items they want

• Allows the tracking of merchandise movement within the supply chain

for improved visibility

• Assists with maintaining accurate perpetual inventory with full

inventory stock count capability

Key Features of Store Inventory Management

• Near real-time data updates to merchandising systems

• Direct inventory updates from point-of-sale systems

• Create and ship transfers from the store

• Receive Direct Store Delivery (DSD), purchase orders, transfers and

warehouse deliveries

• Receive inbound Advanced Shipping Notice (ASN), cartons and pallets

• Create on the fly supplier deliveries with or without existing purchase

order

• Access item, supplier and container data

• Access key inventory information, including available on-hand stock and

quantities in transit for any store in the company

• Create unit and financial inventory adjustments

• Perform stock counts—24 hours a day, 7 days a week

• Complete in-store shelf replenishment

• Create Return to Vendor (RTV) for sellable and unsellable merchandise

• Setup, receive, track and manage UINs (Unique Identification Numbers)

• Manage with Role-based security; store controlled, LDAP or a hybrid

• Reserve inventory for customer orders

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Figure 2. Oracle Retail Store Inventory Management Role Based Security

Oracle Retail Integrations

Oracle Retail Store Inventory Management is fully integrated with the Oracle

Retail Merchandising System, Oracle Retail Warehouse Management System,

Oracle Retail Price Management and Oracle Retail Point-of-Service to provide

near real-time data communications between individual stores and the corporate

office—eliminating the need for nightly batch processing. With real-time access

to the store data across the organization, Oracle Retail Store Inventory

Management helps ensure that business decisions are based on timely, accurate

information.

Oracle Retail Store Inventory Management, coupled with the Oracle Retail

Merchandising System, provides the power and processes behind day-to-day

buying and selling activities with easy-to-use features that minimize the need for

extensive training, IT experience, or expensive software and hardware

investments. Coupled with Oracle Retail Point-of-Service, it provides an improved

customer experience in store by giving accurate on hand positions within the

store or at another location.

Oracle Retail Store Inventory Management Independence

Oracle Retail Store Inventory Management is able to be decoupled from the

Oracle Retail Integration Bus for customers who want to deploy Oracle Retail

Store Inventory Management in environments in which they do not have the

Oracle Retail Merchandising System or Oracle Retail Warehouse Management

System. Decoupling Oracle Retail Integration Bus introduces a standards-based

set of staging tables, to improve stability between Oracle Retail Store Inventory

Management and Oracle Retail Integration Bus.

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RELATED SOLUTIONS

• Oracle Retail Mobile Store

Inventory Management

• Oracle Retail Merchandising

System

• Oracle Retail Warehouse

Management

• Oracle Retail Price

Management

• Oracle Retail Point­of­Service

About Oracle Retail

Key Features of Store Inventory Management Independence

• Retailers are able to perform maintenance on the Oracle Retail

Integration Bus servers without affecting Oracle Retail Store Inventory

Management online activities

• Quality assurance efforts are able to start earlier during

implementation, because an Oracle Retail Integration Bus deployment is

not immediately required

• Reduces licensing costs and deployment complexity, because the Oracle

Retail Integration Bus does not need to be deployed to integrate with

third-party applications

• Improves messaging maintenance for Oracle Retail Integration Bus

Internationalization

Internationalization allows retailers to implement Oracle Retail Store Inventory

Management in other countries in which they do business. Oracle Retail Store

Inventory Management is currently available in the following languages: Chinese

(Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Dutch, English, French, German, Greek,

Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish,

Swedish and Turkish.

Oracle provides retailers with a complete, open and integrated suite of business applications, server and storage

solutions that are engineered to work together to optimize every aspect of their business. 20 of the top 20

retailers worldwide - including fashion, hardlines, grocery and specialty retailers - use Oracle solutions to drive

performance, deliver critical insights and fuel growth across traditional, mobile and commerce channels.

Contact Us

For more information about Oracle Retail Returns Management, please visit oracle.com/goto/retail or email

oneretailvoice_ww@oracle.com to connect with an Oracle representative.

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