The projects listed below, may or may not be applicable to your industry, however, they are examples of ways other businesses have mobilized their business process to have access to critical information any place, anytime. Peruse these applications to get ideas on how you might revolutionize your business.

Industries: Retail, Grocery
Description: The Contender is a competitive price aggregation tool which supports the implementation of pricing projects designed to assess a competitors pricing for products that are not available on-line. In order to remain competitive in the marketplace a grocery chain may use this tool to compare thousands of SKUs in competitors’ stores to assess the competitiveness of their own products. For decades, this has been a largely manual effort undertaken by retailers to enter a competitor’s location and capture prices on a pre-printed form that would later be faxed and uploaded via data entry for analysis. This process was not only extremely time consuming, but also prone to error and extensive data acquisition delays before the manually entered data was available for organizational analysis.
Solstice has developed a mobile application to modernize the process and provide a retailer with accurate data with a dramatically faster turnaround. Working with handheld devices, shoppers download electronic projects determined by management and electronically capture pricing data for specified SKUs. The device captures the SKU, accurately adds the data to the project in real time and allows the shopper to move on to the next product. When all project-related SKUs have been captured the whole project is uploaded to a database with custom reporting and data organization capabilities. This method effectively eliminates human error while providing a key competitive tool retail industry.
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