"Zero" And Not Dispersed -- New Era Of Information Construction In Retail Industry

Changes in the times, the retail industry business mode is undergoing tremendous changes, traditional department stores

The new stage of informatization construction is turning the store into a turning point.

China's retail industry informatization started earlier. In the early 90s of last century, China's retail industry dropped the abacus and introduced the POS system. However, compared with other industries, the application of information technology in the retail industry is more trivial and the demand is changing.

Some retail enterprises have low level of informatization, lagging management concepts, high cost of logistics distribution, and low utilization of resources and efficiency in retail links.

Under the background of the rapid development of retail industry, with the continuous opening of foreign capital and the further opening of the retail market, especially in recent years, the wireless access of advanced retail enterprises, the efficient interconnection of stores, and the construction of data centers are full of vitality, which poses a great challenge to the IT Department of domestic retail enterprises.

After 2006, the store of China's retail information system reached its peak.

After experiencing rapid expansion, chain enterprises began to pay attention to IT construction and strengthen internal management.

Take Shanghai to Iraq (love house food) for example, more than 2000 stores in East China, Southern China and other places, in the future will develop to 4000 stores nationwide.

With the expansion of the scale, Lai is facing a series of problems, such as the number of lines connected to headquarters, the lack of basic IT skills of store salesmen, the low cost access to new remote stores ADSL, the simple data pmission and so on.

After many considerations, Lai chose H3C's store interconnection solution.

H3C uses a single VPN device supporting 5000 tunnels, which meets its store expansion for 3~5 years, and carries value-added services such as voice and IP monitoring in VPN network.

The branch network intelligent management system (BIMS) is equipped with a simple IT tool for salesmen of large stores. At the same time, the 3G/WLAN flexible access method is used to solve the problem of rapidly deploying network in remote stores.

Similar to Lai, the KFC, pizza hut, Taco Bell, Oriental white restaurant, Suning Appliance and so on, all adopted the H3C VPN access network, which not only solved the problem of interconnection, but also refined management in the process of tapping the potential of enterprises, and comprehensively improved the service level of enterprises.

Wireless application highlights the necessity of retail industry

In the past, the conventional cash registers of retail businesses could only handle simple receipts, invoices and changes. The information provided by the management was only limited to the total sales amount. Information such as business margin analysis, single sales data, unsalable goods, inventory and slew rate could not be obtained.

In the new era of Internet of things, the "unlimited" Application of wireless terminals will link all links of retail business into a network. Every paction operation and information of each item can be obtained at any time. It will not only make the daily management more flexible, but at the same time, it will give consumers a lot of benefits.

Take Cui Wei building as an example, by choosing H3C's enterprise grade AP, Gigabit performance wireless controller and integrated wired and wireless management platform, Cui Wei building has a WLAN supporting network with high reliability, high security and high stability. The shopping mall can add wireless cashier at any time according to the passenger flow situation.

The innovation of this business mode is undoubtedly the best interpretation of the concept of "customer centered" service.

Deepening business management and opening the door of data fusion

Retail enterprises have huge amounts of data, so far, to benefit from refinement, profit from the backstage and development to management, has become the general trend of the industry. Whether fine management or centralized management of backstage management, all information, decision-making and execution will revolve around the data center.

Take Shandong Lu Shang Group as an example, this is a large scale enterprise that takes the modern retail as the main business, and is involved in the diversified development of hotels, pharmaceuticals, real estate, media and investment.

In order to migrate to the new generation of data center, Shandong Lu business conducted a field inspection of H3C's data center construction projects in foreign retail groups and other financial enterprises.

Finally, the Lu business group decided to incorporate the previously decentralized cooperative office system, human resource management, CRM, ERP, SCM supply chain, store access and security monitoring, and financial management into the new data center.

Through the iMC intelligent management center provided by H3C, the components such as EAD, NTA, QOS, iAR and so on are added to realize the construction of the core LAN in Ji'nan's main data center, and the network interoperability between various industries and branches and the main data center of Ji'nan is realized, so that the data pmission needs of the business class system can be satisfied. At the same time, the equipment is integrated with SecCenter and other equipments, and the network is comprehensively analyzed, monitored and managed, thus enabling the data center to enter the intelligent operation and maintenance stage.

H3C's perfect after-sales service system has also played a crucial role in the expansion of the data center in the later stage. The Shandong Lu business group provides the upstream suppliers, manufacturers and downstream retailers together as a whole through the follow-up services, and realizes the frequent exchange and sharing of information between individuals at different levels in the supply chain.

Due to the upgrading of domestic consumption level and the reference of foreign retail business management mode, the retail industry pattern will undergo significant changes in the next few years.

With the comprehensive retail enterprises, such as Lu Shang, Zhong Bai and Huarun, are increasingly committed to the construction of information technology, we believe that with the continuous deepening of mining user needs, the retail industry will continue to improve with the upgrading of the business, opening up a new era of information technology.