Retail System Selection Consulting Services

Shape your retail success with confident technology decisions.

Selecting the right retail technology is crucial for staying competitive. But with countless options and high stakes, how do you ensure you make the best choice for your business?

Most Retailers Face Complex Technology Decisions:

  • Pressure to modernize legacy systems and siloed technology

  • The need to enhance omnichannel customer experiences

  • Demands for improved business efficiency

  • A maze of vendor options and technical considerations

Making the wrong choice could lead to wasted resources, missed opportunities, and falling behind competitors.

Don’t let technology decisions hold your business back.

Our Retail System Selection Consulting Approach

At Parker Avery, we guide retail and consumer brand leaders through a proven, objective retail system selection process to select the ideal solutions for their unique business needs. Further, we bring only experienced retail consultants to your project to solidify confidence in our recommendations and your decisions. Our approach is based on four key principles:

Strategic Alignment

Aligns technology decisions with capabilities needed to support your strategic goals.

Objective Focus

Employs a rigorous, unbiased evaluation methodology, not tied to any specific vendor.

Accelerated Timeline

Strong leading practice and solution experience promotes quicker, more informed decisions.

Balanced Decision

Balances functional fit, technical considerations, vendor partnerships, change impacts and ROI.

Our retail system selection consulting approach includes current state analysis, future process design, requirements definition, vendor demonstrations, retail system selection, and implementation planning. We also recommend starting organizational change efforts to ensure successful implementation and adoption of the new system and ways of working.

Analyze current state

  • Conduct discovery interviews
  • Identify emerging business strategies
  • Define the criteria to decide among the available system alternatives
  • Tailor selection approach to address culture and needs

Define desired capabilities

  • Assess relevant leading practices
  • Define high-level future processes
  • Develop future-state business and technical requirements

Evaluate retail system candidates

  • Assess vendor landscape
  • Develop, issue, and assess RFI
  • Down-select vendors for demonstrations
  • Conduct demos and assess outcomes
  • Make recommendation

Finalize system selection decision

  • Finalize vendor decision with stakeholders
  • Develop implementation roadmap
  • Identify resource requirements
  • Refine investment/business case

Your Path to Technology-Driven Success

Partnering with Parker Avery’s retail system selection consulting experts means:

  • Clarity in decision-making, backed by deep industry expertise
  • Confidence in selecting solutions that fit your business
  • Accelerated time-to-value from your technology investments
  • A roadmap for successful implementation and adoption

Let’s make sure your new system supports your desired business capabilities.

Retail System Selection Consulting: Client Success Stories

New Forecasting, Demand Planning, and Replenishment System Selected to Drive Better Product and Inventory Results

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New Forecasting, Demand Planning, and Replenishment System Selection

Retailer Selects New Core Support Systems to Streamline Corporate Operations

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Retailer Selects New Core Support Systems to Streamline Corporate Operations​

New Data-Driven Solution Strengthens Grocer's Competitive Pricing Capabilities

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New Data-Driven Solution Strengthens Grocer’s Competitive Pricing Capabilities

Retailer Expects Strong Results from Best-of-Breed Merchandising Solution

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Retailer Expects Strong Results from Best-of-Breed Merchandising Solution​

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