Apollo Suite
Design, analyse and optimise planograms
Designer Workstation
Automate the production of store-specific planograms
StorePlan
Design, analyse and optimise entire stores
Web Publisher
Publish your planograms to your stores in no time, with no cost
Merchandising Central
Connect your space planning software to your ERP system
ShelfScan
Use a palmtop PC to collect data in the field
MeasureBox
Build a database of product dimensions
Custom development
Our Products and Services are flexible enough to satisfy all of your needs. Please approach us and we can discuss a suitable solution for you.
Apollo Suite
Building on over 20 years of success, Apollo Suite sets the worldwide standard for sophisticated shelf management. Apollo Suite is an easy-to-use but powerful Shelf Space Management System for creating effective category planograms, analysing space performance, and making merchandising and allocation decisions that optimise sales, movement, profit, and return on inventory investment (ROII).
KEY FEATURES:
- Unparalleled ease of use.
- Powerful analytical features.
- Supports a wide range of fixture types from standard shelves to hanging bars and pallets.
- Offers Realistic 3D and photographic views.
- Supports various industry standard databases.
- Compatible with other space management solutions.
- OLE support for easy customisation.
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Designer Workstation
Every store is different. Even within a chain of seemingly identical outlets, shelf dimensions, customer profiles and performance figures vary from store to store. Traditional space management applications still require a lot of manual work, making store-specific planograming a slow and expensive process.
Designer Workstation is the first and only desktop planogram automation tool that brings store-specific planograming within reach for every retailer and supplier. Based on a single "layout planogram" and a set of merchandising and inventory rules defined by the user, Designer Workstation will produce store-specific planograms automatically in a matter of seconds.
KEY FEATURES:
- Works with store-specific assortment and sales information.
- Handles "must stock" as well as optional items.
- Enables users to easily define the desired placement ("blocking") of segments.
- Handles inventory, facing and packout rules.
- "Reads" merchandising rules from an existing "layout" planogram.
- Manages desired item adjacencies.
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StorePlan
StorePlan is an application designed explicitly to support retailers in the floor planning process. StorePlan streamlines the floor planning process by
- Merging CAD layout plans and sales/product information seamlessly in a single application
- Turning the ”unintelligent” lines of CAD plans into fixtures, departments and categories
- Providing powerful analytical tools to examine department, category and product performance in relation to space allocation
- Offering advanced functionality through a simple, user-friendly interface (as opposed to CAD applications)
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Web Publisher
Web Publisher allows retailers to use their Intranet to communicate planograms and other merchandising information to their stores electronically.
KEY FEATURES:
- "One-click" publishing.
- Eliminates paperwork, cuts planogram publishing time and costs.
- Enables frequent planogram updates.
- Allows space planners to focus on planogram creation rather than printing and binding.
- Through a unique feedback feature allows HQ personnel to monitor the implementation status of planograms.
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Merchandising Central
For a long time, in retail organisations Space & Category Management software tools have been completely isolated from the rest of the company’s IT infrastructure. As a result, time was unnecessarily wasted on exporting, cleaning, structuring and importing data before being able to create or update a planogram or a store layout plan.
Using Merchandising Central retailers can connect Apollo Suite to their ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system, feeding the necessary data automatically into Apollo Suite and StorePlan, and even publish them fully automatically through integration with Web Publisher. Furthermore, Merchandising Central features powerful multi-planogram analytical tools and a clean user interface serving as a single entry point to all planograms and store layout plans stored in its industry-standard Oracle database.
Note for SAP R/3 users: in order to achieve full integration with SAP Retail, please contact MEMRB for further information on Apollo Retail Exchange, the SAP certified interface between Apollo Suite and SAP R/3 4.6c and later.
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ShelfScan
Knowing what’s going on in the stores is a vital part of successful space management. Collecting product, placement and other merchandising information manually is time consuming and often inaccurate. Fast and accurate, Apollo ShelfScan is the perfect tool for in-store data collection.
KEY FEATURES:
- A palmtop PC equipped with a barcode scanner and the unique ShelfScan software
- Capture shelf, product, placement, stock and pricing information in the stores
- Exchange information with the Apollo Suite planograming software
- The information can be used to capture the in-store situation at the beginning of a category management project…
- …or to check if the stores have implemented the planograms accurately.
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MeasureBox
Space planners need accurate product dimensions - and MeasureBox is the ultimate product measurement tool.
Using MeasureBox is a simple 1-2-3 process:
KEY FEATURES:
- Read the product’s barcode using the built-in scanner
- Measure width-height-depth with the digital calliper
- MeasureBox transfers the data to Apollo or Excel automatically
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Custom Development
One size does not fit all. MEMRB has many years of experience in developing Space & Category Management software solutions based on client requests. These "custom" applications can be small "add-ons" designed to modify or enhance the functionality of existing tools such as Apollo Suite or StorePlan, but can also be complete applications on their own right.
