Key benefits
Customer testiomnials

Digitrade presale evolution

The development of Digitrade presale is based on Infonor Systems experience from the retail industry and close partnership with our customers. This has resulted in an intuitive, simple to use solution created in response to our customer’s needs.

Digitrade presale includes all Digitrade modules, process support, integration, functionality, and is built using the same infrastructure and tools as for Digitrade. Additional process support, functions and features has been added to support the specific needs for pre-season planning, ordering and follow up. In season ordering (replenishment) is carried-out using the core Digitrade application.

Digitrade presale is a solution designed around the real life issues of retail pre-season ordering and product information management.

Digitrade presale modules

• Sales Fair Administration
• Budgeting
• Profitability calculations
• Product Sales Packages
• Reporting & Analyses
• Import Order Proposals

+ Digitrade with all available modules. See Digitrade for more details.

Sales Fair Administration – in this module you set up and administer the different fairs/sales meetings. For each fair/sales meeting you set start and stop dates for the actual event and delivery time window, which suppliers and customers/shops are approved for participating.

Budgeting – this module helps customers/shops to build up a budget per year and per fair/sales meeting. The Budgeting module helps customer/shop responsible to plan and follow up on their purchasing and avoid them from spending too much in one season compared to another. Follow up and outcome according to the budget are used extensively throughout other modules and functions within the solution.

Profitability calculations – the customer/shop gets a real time overview of a complete calculation and what their earnings will be when all products are sold out of shop. They can view this based on a selected assortment or from their existing pre-order stock.

Product Sales Packages – this module helps suppliers and chain/wholesaler to assemble different products and quantities together into product sales packages. This could be generic sales packages or customer specific sales packages. An example could be product sales packages for small, medium and large shops, consisting of a suitable assortment of alpine ski models in different colors, sizes, quality and quantities.

Reporting & Analysis – this module consist of a range of pre-built reports for overview and analysis. They have been built over time, together with our customers, based on their needs. They are delivered as standards but can easily be customized.

Import Order Proposals – this module consist of a framework for importing pre-built Order Proposals from other business applications (ERP). The order proposals become available for further processing in Digitrade presale.

	Key benefits
	Fast and easy implementation Low start-up and operational cost Easy, intuitive user interface – reduced education and training cost Real time decision data for all involved parties Order entered correct once by customer Avoid time consuming double entering and risk of errors Efficient integration to existing business applications (ERP) Efficient product catalog and assortment management Powerful Ordering Matrix (Model, Color, Size, Delivery week) Efficient information sharing with customers Broadcast alerts and short messages to users, customers or groups
	Why Digitrade presale?
	Better utilization of resources and increased efficiency Activities can be carried out earlier and more efficient – time to market! Our customers report dramatic improvements of pre-sales processes from retailer planning and ordering through supply and manufacturing Availability 24/7/365 from ”wherever”, ”whoever” and ”whenever” Decision support Product Information Product Presentation based on Sails Fair structures Price, calculation, profit Statistics on purchased measured against budget Sails Fair order (Pre seasonal orders) Overview Sales Planning Budgeting Analyze
	Supplier benefits
	More efficient administration of information Upload information from own applications Quality control Present, on the web, before and during the fair/sales meeting Products, Product Sales Packages, Promotions etc. Overview real time sales reports
	Chain / Wholesaler benefits
	More efficient administration of information Present, on the web, before and during the fair/sales meeting Products, Product Sales Packages, Promotions etc. Web based pre order entering by customers/shops Real time status and overview of sales, orders and warehouse stock
	Shop / Customer benefits
	Budgeting module for entering and follow up on Year to date and Per fair/sales meeting Product information related to fair/sales meeting are available on the web earlier Before, During and After Easy and efficient entering of pre orders before and during the fair /sales meeting Real time overview of pre order volume and value Compared against budget Compared against similar fair/sales meeting last year Estimated profit Reports Detailed overview Overview per delivery time Purchased with profit per supplier Delivery Matrix

	Customer testimonials Sport1 have put shop profitability into focus. Most important instruments for retail chain management to realize this focus is to systemize product assortment, quick and efficient build profitable product sales packages and provide shops good advice. Digitrade is one of the most important instruments we have to realize our goal. Digitrade simplifies processes and functions and the work carried out at retail chain management are much more efficient. Information is instantly available to the shops in an intuitive and easy to use web interface. Ole Petter Harv, IT Manager, Sport1 Gruppen
	We are very pleased with the new solution from Infonor Systems. It is much easier to prepare for the upcoming Sales Fairs! We are much more accurate on purchased quantity and delivery times! Harald Bech, Managing Director, Intersport Sortland