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SPI offers world class Services and Solutions across the Retail Value Chain to address all of your OmniChannel challenges.

www.spi.com | [email protected] | 770-904-7720 | Global HQ: 5 Concourse Pkwy, Suite 500, Atlanta, GA 30328

Our mission is to be the technology provider of choice for retailers worldwide

SOLUTIONS ACROSS THE RETAIL VALUE CHAIN

RETAIL INSIGHT | CLIENT SERVICE | DELIVERY EXCELLENCE

Planning Buying Supply Chain Store & Multi Channel

OrganizationManagement

& Support

Demand forecastingSupplier RelationshipManagement

Global ImportManagement

Merchandising

Category ManagementSupplier Collaboration

Assortment Planning

Merchandise ManagementSolution

Procurement Management

IT Operational Support

Analytics & SupplierDashboards

Financials

Human Capital Management

Corporate Services

Master Data Management

Point of Sale

Store Operations

Catalog Management &e-Commerce

Call Center / Help Desk

Multi Channel Customer Service

Multi Channel CustomerLoyalty

Replenishment &Inventory Optimization

Multi Channel OrderFulfilment

Inventory Management

Warehouse & DCManagement

Logistics

Supply Chain Visibility &Tracking

Global ExportManagement

USA (Georgia, New Jersey, Arkansas) | Australia | Brazil | Canada | Nepal | India | Singapore

Software Paradigms International Group, LLC (SPI), founded in 1994, is an award winning products, services, and solutions provider for Retailers around the world. SPI is headquartered in Atlanta, GA, with offices in Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Nepal, and Singapore.

SPI offers complete end-to-end Retail IT solutions across the retail value chain. SPI’s technology and back office solutions leverage innovative approaches to improve profitability and productivity for their retail clients.

www.spi.com | [email protected] | 770-904-7720 Global HQ: 5 Concourse Pkwy, Suite 500, Atlanta, GA 30328

About SPI

WE KNOW TECHNOLOGY. WE KNOW RETAIL.

Key Clients

Custom Application Development &

Maintenance

Infrastructure Management

3rd Party Package Implementation and Integration

QA & Testing

24 X 7 Support

Project Management

Services

IT SERVICES

BWM Merchandising Advantage

Shiloh® Analytics Advantage

Internal Recovery Audit Advantage

Infra-AdvantageMobility Advantage

Vendor Advantage

Retail Solutions


RETAILIT SERVICES


Custom Application Development & Maintenance

3rd Party Package Implementation and Integration

Infrastructure Solutions & Management

Project Management Services

24 x 7 Systems Support

QA & Testing

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CLIENT SERVICEspiProject.com – SPI proprietary engagement management and collaboration tool

Portfolio rationalizationand outsourcing suitability tools and services

Client college: client specific and technology training available to clients and SPI teams

Personal Touch

RETAIL INSIGHTFree diagnostic check bench-marking business case of each project on request

Knowledge DC -Knowledge Store on Retail and Technology

“Store of the future”conceptualizing the store of the 21st century

Thought leadership viawhite papers and blogs available to clients.

100% Retail Focused Organization

DELIVERY EXCELLENCECMMI Level 5; Six Sigma Black Belts; PMP Project Managers

Best-in-class hiring and retention

Guaranteed productivity improvements

Best of breed infrastructure: ISO 27001:2005 certified organization

Retail essentials training: mandatory for all employees

Monthly health check notifications

Early Warning System

The changing Retail IT landscape is demanding new insights, skills and resources. That’s why today’s most successful retailers are backed by trusted partners who can address immediate needs while delivering the ideal combination of technology, processes and people.




About SPI


Key Clients


SPI Project

Early Warning System

SPI Project includes :

Deliverable / Milestone management

Resource & task management

Issue management using electronic signatures

Status updates provides transparency to the client

ENABLESTHE STAKEHOLDERSTO TAKE CORRECTIVE ACTIONSAND CONTINUOUSLY TRACK

REAL-TIME PROGRESS

Retail IT Services

Infrastructure Solutions & Management

Application Development, Maintenance & Support

Datacenters & Enterprise IT Services

Middleware, Operations & End User Computing

Open Systems.NET Client Server

Consulting

QA & Testing

Automated & Manual Testing Services

Functional Testing Services

Performance Testing Services

3rd Party PackageImplementation & Integration

Supply Chain Management

Business IntelligenceData WarehouseMDM & ETLMainframeJ2EE

Legacy

Enterprise Resource Planning

Product Lifecycle Management

Warehouse Management System

Project Management Services

MobilityiOS & AndroidResponsive Design

Merchandising Advantage

How does it

What every retailer knows is that maintaining customer satisfaction while optimizing merchandise performance is essential to success. It’s no secret that getting a merchandise mix that is sensitive to demand at each distribution channel and store location is a key process in supporting that success. Having available an advanced technology to better understand that demand that can execute key functions and processes that will satisfy that demand on a timely and accurate basis, will greatly improve the retailer’s probability of success.

SPI BWM Merchandising Advantage is an innovative decision support software platform developed for merchandising organizations. SPI applies state-of-the-art technology to help relieve planners, buyers, and allocators from tedious and frustrating traditional approaches. BWM is available On-Premise, SaaS (Software as a Service), or BPaaS (Business Process as a Service).


Buyer's WorkMate®(BWM)

SPINActive

Intelligence

Historical Analysis

MerchandisePlanning

StorePlanning

Assortment Planning

Size & PackOptimization

Purchase Order Planning

DemandForecasting

PerformanceTracking

Allocation

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The The primary focus of SPI BWM Suite of software applications is to create, purchase, allocate and manage well balanced assortments. BWM optimizes product selection in order to satisfy local customer demand, while meeting financial goals. Consistent application of BWM processes will mitigate the erosion of margins arising from seasonal markdown and transfer programs.



BWM Merchandising Advantage closes the loop on the merchandise cycle by managing the critical elements and enabling the execution of critical functions in a timely manner. BWM is a highly integrated set of software modules that can be activated separately or as a set. When applied to the various steps of the process cycle, BWM will produce the desired results with reduced effort.

www.spi.com | [email protected] | 770-904-7720

Global HQ: 5 Concourse Pkwy, Suite 500, Atlanta, GA 30328

Increased buyer productivity through effective vendorcollaboration and dynamic purchasing

Protect your investment in and maintain compatibilitywith existing systems

Measurable return on investment

Eliminate the lag time between order commitmentsand processing

Compare performance among vendors and products

Customize plan formats and structure to each merchandisedepartment’s unique requirements

Implement by module, according to the needs of themerchandising organization

About SPI

Key Clients

SPIN® BI

Merchandise Planning

Store Planning

Assortment Planning

Size & Pack Optimization

Purchasing

Allocation

Forecasting

optimizesBWM Suite Modules

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optimizesReap the following benefits through the use of the Buyer’s WorkMate®:

(BWM) Merchandising Advantage

Why offer BWM in a

BWM Merchandising Advantage is an innovative decision support software platform developed for allocation and assortment planning. Now turbo charge BWM by adding a team of planning experts to help retail teams to plan and buy the optimal merchandise mix without software licenses and costly hardware investments.

SPI has created a unique consulting group of planning

professionals oriented to provide the retailer’s merchandising

organization with a series of services designed to assist in the

formulation of Assortment Plans and preparation of Buy Plans.

The primary objective is to assort merchandise consistently with

the demand factors across sales channels and geographic

locations. Ultimately, overall merchandise performance will

improve by increasing gross margins, mitigating lost sales from

stock outs, and providing a higher level of customer satisfaction

through an improved understanding of demographic profiles by

channel and location. As an added benefit, the system’s support

structure connects directly to the retailer’s ERP infrastructure

and enables all processes to work seamlessly while avoiding

redundant data. This optimizes critical business processes

within the merchandise organization. Finally, this program

promotes effective collaboration with the retailer’s vendors and

streamlines the completion of the merchandise purchase

process.


Assortment PlanningService Model for Buyer’s WorkMate®

BPaaS model?


WHAT TECHNOLOGIES ARE IN USE?

The SPI BWM Merchandise Advantage software suite is comprised of three essential modules: SPIN Analytics, Assortment Planning and Purchasing.

ASSORTMENT PLANNING:

Breadth and depth of each assorted season is recommended by a sophisti-cated sort process that gives planners and buyers a rapid and effective start on the new seasons assorting and purchasing processes.


SPIN Analytics

PURCHASE ORDERING

Online Integration to ERP Purchase Order Process—Order Auto Generation




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Four Square Analysis—Sales Performance, Gross Margin, Sell Through, Average Price

Color Analysis—Color Performance by Merchandise Category and Attribute

Size Analysis—Size Performance by Merchandise Category and Attribute

Attribute and Brand Analysis—Applicable Guidelines for New Season Structure

Powerful Trend Performance Wizards—Captures Critical Trends for Seasonal Buy

The following illustrates the critical elements that contribute to the model and its processes:

Plan and Review

Buy/PlanWedge

Style-Out

Size styles by store

Item Create and Allocate

SELL

Recap previous season’s results at

acceptable margin and apply to the next

delivery.

Apply the budget and assumptions to create style depth & breadth

by store.

Assign REAL styles to the placeholders in the wedge. Confirm

the buy.

Using sales history and the depth by

store, calculate order per size to cover

demand.

Using the sizes and depth by store,

create SKUs, allocate and place

the order.

- Big Data Analytics- Actionable Insights

Shiloh® Analytics Advantage is a Demand Signal Repository (DSR) cloud based analytics solution that gathers, harmonizes and streamlines your data. Shiloh also translates the data to speak your company’s unique language. Ultimately, Shiloh turns your data into actionable insights that will help you to identify risks and opportunities across multiple areas of your business

Shiloh is the industry’s go-to analytics solution for both retailers and suppliers. Shiloh is scalable with basic and complex reporting. It will help you to identify your company’s demand using predictive analytics to drive value back to the business in many ways.

Retailers and suppliers have merchandise visibility from manufacturing facilities to the customer’s purchase, generating insights that help drive sales across channels.


Shiloh Analytics Advantage


Shiloh provides topline reporting from the Executive level to the User level. Some examples of our reports include: Executive Summary, Topline Sales Trends, Item Sales Trends, Forecast Variance, Gross Margin Dollars, Sales, and many more.

ENTERPRISE DASHBOARDS/REPORTS

Forward 52 weeks along with historical forecast and actual units sold

Load your company forecast (both POS andmanufacture) which enables Shiloh to provide forecast variance reports and alerts at various levels of the supply chain. (i.e. store level/item level, warehouse level, etc.)

Track against weekly forecast with POS data on a daily basis.

FORECASTING SOLUTIONS

SUPPLY CHAIN SOLUTIONS

Top-Level Standards

Identify locations where your product appears in the system but is not physically present.

Phantom Inventory

Reveal probable causes of low performance,factoring in data such as store comparisons, like-item sales, historical trends and more.

Shiloh brings your suppliers closer to the sale allowing for fewer stock-outs and markdowns especially in an OmniChannel environment.

Potential to Sell


Shiloh Analytics Advantage




About SPI


Key Clients

Launching, tracking, measuring new itemsItem sell-thru by day for any time frame needed

SALES & MARKETING SOLUTIONSData on a Daily, Weekly, Monthly Basis

Executive Summary, Topline Sales, Item Trends, Modular Performance, GEO coding ability, Zero Sales, Sales by category, Warehouse, Sales change, Sales opportunities, Sales trending, Margin, MUMD, Sustainability Scorecard, Store level Merchandiser Performance

Sales/Marketing Reporting

AIM - ANALYZE. INITIATE. MEASURE.Initiates actions to improve upon any opportunities found then measures their effectiveness and profitability.

ADVANCED ORDERINGWrite complex orders for ideal order quantities by utilizing a dataset engine with highly sophisticated logic.

Category ReportingCATEGORY SOLUTIONS

Integrate Space Planning Data

Buyer Scorecards, New Item Tracker, Modular Reporting, automatic daily loads of Store traits and Modular traits, Store/Item Clustering, Store Trait Analysis, superior adhoc capabilities, by category, sub-cat, fineline, brand, item, Mapping Software Integration.

Import and Export to Space Planning along with historical information for year-over-year comparisons. Holding power analysis, Space to Sales by Item, Modular productivity by Item, Heat Mapping, Printable Item/-Store layout cards

Integrate Syndicated DataCompare category for the retailer against national and channel growth with seamless integration between POS, Share data, Category data with various types of syndicated data

SUPPLY CHAIN REPORTINGIn-stock Exceptions, Inventory Tracking, Replenishment Analyzer, Zero Sales, Deseasonalized Demand at default or Zero, Need Aggressive DD

here are major shifts taking place in the retail industry. With customer demands spiking at a rapid pace, retailers need

technology that not only helps them keep up, but also stay ahead of the changes that are coming.

Today’s most successful retailers are backed by trusted partners who can help them navigate the retail landscape while delivering the ideal combination of technology, processes, and people to anticipate future challenges.

SPI understands what it takes to meet the needs of retail today. As your business needs evolve, SPI grows along with you, providing ongoing answers to your IT questions. For larger businesses, whether your needs are short-term or long-term, we can deliver the full spectrum of hardware, software, application migration, integration, and a variety of products and services to keep your organization at the forefront of retail evolution.

Retail is Evolving. Are You Prepared to Keep Up?

www.spi.com // [email protected] // 770.904.7720

The RightRetail Partner

How Can SPI Prepare You for the OmniChannel Revolution?

With over 20 years of experience with retailers, we understand what it takes to meet the challenges of retail today. We’ve helped organizations not only transition from legacy systems to OmniChannel using proven customer-first methodologies, but also maximize their IT investments.

What Makes SPI a Go-to Retail Partner?

Since 1994, we have served the top retailers in the world and our mission is to be the technology provider of choice. We provide products for retailers and suppliers alike, and we don’t repurpose solutions from other industries. Our products are specifically designed and developed for the retail industry.

How Can SPI’s IT Services and Solutions Deliver Results for Your Business?

SPI offers a wide breadth of IT services including custom application development, maintenance, 24x7 support, testing, and third-party package implementation and integration. We offer a suite of products to address assortment planning, merchandise planning, and demand forecasting—across all channels. We also offer cloud-based big data analytics for point-of-sale inventory data that is targeted at retailers and suppliers.

• PureFlex System• BladeCenter• Power Systems

• PowerLinux• System Storage and

Total Storage

SPI INFRA-Advantage

SPI is a premier IBM Business Partner that offers a full suite of cutting-edge hardware, software, and services. We assist retailers in the implementation, migration, and management of solutions that are custom-tailored to the retail industry.

Hardware

• Big Data & Netezza• Cognos• Data Management• Filenet• InfoSphere• SPSS

Middleware

• Tivoli• Tivoli Business

Automation• Tivoli Enterprise Asset

Management• Tivoli Storage

• WebSphere• WebSphere Business

Process Management• WebSphere Core

Contact SPI for more information.www.spi.com | [email protected] | 770-904-7720 | 5 Concourse Parkway, Suite 500, Atlanta, GA 30328

USA • Australia • Brazil • Canada • India • Nepal • Singapore

Our clients include:

The Right Retail Partner

The next generation of Recovery Audit is here. Lower costs, near real-time audit processing, and automated tools for your internal teams. SPI is a technology services and solutions company, not a contingency recovery audit firm. Thus, SPI provides automated technology tools to in-house recovery audit teams, maximizing internal recoveries.

www.spi.com | [email protected] | 770-904-7720 | Global HQ : 5 Concourse Pkwy, Suite 500, Atlanta, GA 30328

Internal

Recovery Audit Advantage


Benefits of SPI Internal Recovery Audit Advantage

Expand and audit the same categories as a traditional post-audit

team thereby reducing post-audit expenses.

Audit closer to the transaction date,

maximizing recoveriesand decreasing the

claim approval time.

Improve your bottom line and vendor relations.

Significantly reduce in Primary and

Secondary Audit Fees

Utilize web-based technology to provide management and vendors with greater accessibility to the entire

claims lifecycle.

Identify new insights and prevent

overpayments.

Increase the efficiency of the internal team with automated processes

versus inefficient and error prone manual processes.


SPI Internal Recovery Audit Advantage helps retailers increase cash flow and productivity, while decreasing external recovery audit costs with best-of-breed audit workflow tools. These tools combined with the insights of highly experienced recovery audit professionals at SPI deliver a best-in-class internal audit.

SPI Internal Recovery Audit modules:




About SPI


Key Clients

The CAMS web-based tool electronically tracks claims through the entire approval process and provides visibility to both the internal recovery audit team and vendors. This module is also capable of processing deductions through your existing AP and AR systems.

Contact SPI to learn how we can help you with your Internal Recovery Audit program.

CLAIM WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT (CAMS)

The Auditor Work Bench (AWB) allows the internal audit team to prioritize and work potential claims that are identified in customized claim queries. AWB clearly shows the status of each claim: approved, in-progress and available.

AUDITOR WORKBENCH


Vendor Advantage


Transforming Supplier Collaboration

Enhancing Business Agility

Flexible Integration Solutions

Your retail collaboration needs simplified.VENDOR ADVANTAGE automates the most demanding collaboration processes. Retailers receive greater transparency and visibility into their activities. Dedicated integration architecture accommodates all ERP and native systems, and provides an exceptional user experience on any browser.

Optimize Business Processes

Integrate Technology Platforms

Enhance Supply Chain Agility

Revenue GrowthMargin Improvement

Regulatory ComplianceRisk Reduction

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Software Paradigms International Group, LLC (SPI), founded in 1994, is an award winning products,-serviceS, and solutions provider for Retailers around the world. SPI is headquartered in Atlanta, GA, with offices in Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Nepal, and Singapore.

SPI offers complete Retail IT solutions including custom application development, integration, maintenance, and analytics products. SPI’s technology and back office solutions leverage innovative approaches to improve profitability and productivity for their retail clients.

About SPI


Key Clients

AGREEMENT MANAGEMENTUsers can store and access agreements in a

central repository, enabling all key stakeholders

to view the most up-to-date documents without

the risk of losing information.

VENDOR ONBOARDINGAutomated, customizable vendor creation and

management workflow processes reduce

complications of new partner onboarding.

AP INQUIRYCollaborating and Communicating AP data

with suppliers is now easier than before.

Users can view a full range of role-specific

data, including payment status, trial balances

and charge backs, to build and distribute

electronic invoices.

ALLOWANCE MANAGEMENTSeamless Integration with ERP systems

for downstream promotion management

and financial accounting,

enabling users to develop and maintain

special purchase allowances.

CONTENT MANAGEMENTAlert and update your suppliers with new

forms, notifications, news, and regulations

though the central portal.DYNAMIC DISCOUNTING

Built-in algorithms automate payment amount

and timing decisions while configuring

early-payment discounts, within a retailer’s

accounting system.

(module available as an add-on to AP Inquiry)

Modules




Direct TechAllChannel™ AdvantageIndustry-Leading Planning SolutionsThe AllChannel Advantage suite of applications delivers advanced, highly focused inventory management and merchandise planning capabilities for multichannel retailers, leading to significant improvements in sales, profits and cash flow. Used by over 100 of the world's top retail brands, AllChannel Advantage provides fast, quantifiable returns on your investment.

MERCHANDISE PLANNINGAllChannel Advantage provides a complete view of historical item performance as part of its robust merchandise and assortment planning application.

INVENTORY OPTIMIZATIONHaving the right inventory at the right place at the right time requires the accurate and efficient planning tools provided in AllChannel Advantage.

OMNI-CHANNEL SOLUTIONSAllChannel Advantage solves the planning needs of all selling channels, store, web, catalog and more.

Right Inventory, Right Place, Right Time!

AllChannel Advantage


USA (Georgia, Nebraska, New Jersey, Arkansas) | Australia | Brazil | Canada | Nepal | India | Singapore


AllChannel™ Advantage is a powerful set of tools that will help you run your business—large or small—more efficiently. It focuses on the area most retailers find toughest to control: inventory and its related functions.

Increase customer demand with comprehensive merchandise planning

Enhance sales with quality assortment planning and timely in-stock inventory

Improve gross margin by reducing overstock markdowns

Improve cash flow through better inventory turnover

Reduce inventory carrying and acquisition costs

About SPI Software Paradigms International Group, LLC (SPI), founded in 1994, is an award winning products, services, and solutions provider for Retailers around the world. SPI is headquartered in Atlanta, GA, with offices in Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Nepal, and Singapore. SPI offers complete end-to-end Retail IT solutions across the retail value chain. SPI’s technology and back office solutions leverage innovative approaches to improve profitability and productivity for their retail clients.

Key ClientsOver 100 successful installations with clients, including:

Rapid Return on Investment

INTEGRATION PARTNERS

AllChannel Advantage integrates seamlessly with the top enterprise

software solutions in use today:

IBM Sterling Commerce

Micros-Retail: CWSerenade & CWDirect

NetSuite

Ecometry (JDA Direct Commerce)

Microsoft Dynamics AX and GP

Financial PlanningAssortment Planning

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Inventory Planning

Allocation & Replenishment

D I R E C T T E C H A L L C H A N N E L A D V A N T A G E

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