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Retailer: A New, Real-Time Point-Of-Sale System Yields Better Data and More Sales

Overview A retailer wants its point-of-sale (POS) system to respond with greater agility to fluctuating consumer demand. EDS implemented a thin-client environment that enables real-time access to dynamic information enterprise wide. EDS implemented a thin-client environment that enables real-time access to dynamic information enterprise wide. The new system's capacity for dynamic information exchange lets it send purchase information at the moment of sale to the central server, which instantly notifies a distribution center to replace the item. Armed with real-time communications, they can now run a leaner inventory and respond to ever-shifting demand faster and more efficiently.

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Publisher	Electronic Data Systems	File Format	PDF
Date Published	August 2007	Downloads	46
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Thin Clients, CRM

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