Retail

Economic health is directly related to consumer spending, and no one knows this better than retailers. When times are good, store owners reap the rewards, but when times are bad, retailers are the first to suffer. While retailers cannot control global economic forces, they can build a business that enables them to respond quickly to market conditions and take advantage of these opportunities.

Our Approach to Retail

At Ideaca, we evaluate your entire business to create a successful environment, from the back office to your store front. Our solutions and benefits based delivery approach can help improve the efficiency of your supply chain, staff and operations to ensure a competitive position in the market while driving more business with profitable customers.

What Areas Can We Help With?

Ideaca has extensive experience in the Retail industry and has delivered business solutions that help track and analyze product sales, plan more effective promotions, and improve collaboration between storefronts, suppliers and corporate offices. The areas we can help you with include:

  • Robust back-office systems to support core business functions such as finance, merchandising, inventory and supply chain management
  • Integrated solutions with the ability to seamlessly pass information from store level to corporate, partners, suppliers or vendors
  • Timely & accurate customer and product analytics to facilitate more effective promotions planning and enable greater loyalty amongst key consumers
  • Role-tailored dashboards to support retail analytics and better informed decisions from store level to corporate

Our Retail solutions include:

Integrated Retail ERP

Drive Profitable Operations

Drive profitable operations with an integrated Retail ERP solution, delivering rich functionality from the store front point of sale (POS) to corporate office. Learn more about our Connected Back Office Solutions with Microsoft Dynamics AX for Retail.


Retail Analytics

Improve Responsiveness and Business Insight

Improve responsiveness and business insight with consolidated information available via intuitive role-based dashboards. Learn more on Improving Responsiveness and Business Insight with Retail Analytics


Retail Demand Planning & Replenishment

Optimize Retail Inventory

Reduce stock outs and free up working capital by optimizing retail inventory with Ideaca’s centralized demand planning and replenishment solutions. Learn more about ways we can help you Optimize Retail Inventory through Demand Planning & Replenishment Solutions.


Retail Collaboration

Connect the Retail Enterprise

Integrate with existing back office systems to expose critical supply chain and merchandising information. Learn more about how we help with Connecting the Retail Enterprise Through Collaboration.


With over 10 years of experience and 200 active consultants across Canada in Toronto, Kitchener, Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver and USA, we have demonstrated success through our deep understanding of the industry. We have implemented solutions for many of the Retail industry leaders in Canada including: HDS Retail North America, London Drugs, Subaru, Petro-Canada, Sobeys and Kal Tire . We have the experience, depth and breadth of business and technical skills to help your business grow now and into the future.

To compare centralized vs. localized approaches and determine where to strike a balance, watch our Retail Replenishment webinar.

If you prefer to speak to a retail expert directly, call 1-866-816-4332 or contact us online.