C-CORE is an Industry Leader in POS Evaluations and Selections
Point of Sale has quickly evolved into Point of Service. Omni-Channel, integrated loyalty promotions with common deal engines, mobile for employee and customer, CRM, and other new technologies are pushing retailers and vendors to finally upgrade their POS system.
Over 50% of North American retailers are using software installed over 10 years ago and many of these systems have now reached end of life as retailers try to integrate the newer technologies on these aged platforms.
C-CORE has conducted 35+ POS evaluation and selection projects using the POS RAPID Project Toolkit for Tier 1 and 2 Retailers in the $500M to $30B annual sales range.
We specialize in medium to large complex organizations:
- Multi-Banner
- Multi-Country (Language, Standards, Tax, Processors)
- Omni-Channel (Store, eCommerce, Mobile, Call Center, Kiosk, Catalog)
- Multiple Business Models (Corporate stores, Franchise, Wholesale or a mix)
We provide consulting support for each phase of a POS project to accelerate your project timelines and drive the POS application selection process from vendor evaluation to project planning to full deploy.
We have evaluated over 40 POS Software Vendors. The selection of the right vendor for your company requires that you define your critical differentiators - POS Suite vs. basic POS, extensibility requirements, technical platforms, integration requirements, and configuration management tools as examples.
Prioritizing Requirements with the POS Toolkit
Our toolkit methodology provides for an efficient method to quickly define and prioritize the scope of your project. While our toolkit contains more than 4000 requirements for Point of Sale, it is important to determine what is the right approach for your company and project-RFI, scenario/use cases, full RFP or some combination. While we strongly recommend that a full RFP is the only means to validate that your new system will provide both the required "new and cool" functionality but also provide the functions that exist in your current system that are critical to the business.
Our approach has been refined from multiple uses, providing for the most efficient use of your time, tested and proven in more than 20 POS engagements in the past few years. Our methodology has a strong, flaxible scheduling component which ensures all critical activities are performed in the right sequence to ensure project success. C-CORE usually acts as facilitator and assists your project manager during the project, ensuring a smooth knowldege transfer. Our Methodology helps us reduce your project timelines and business time commitment required, while improving the overall quality of the evaluation process.
Once we review and prioritize your requirements, we are able to recommend the best vendors to include in your POS evaluation and selection project. Our POS Rapid Project Toolkit methodology progressively reduces the vendors in scope with our proprietary vendor scoring methodology. We provide for RFI’s, webinar reviews, RFP’s and onsite demos in our POS evaluation process, depending on what is right for your project. We get you to your goal of selecting the best vendor fit for your priorities, typically in 120 days or less, allowing you to use your time and resources to focus on using the technology to drive business improvement.
Our approach has been refined from multiple uses, providing for the most efficient use of your time, tested and proven in more than 20 POS engagements in the past few years. Our methodology has a strong, flaxible scheduling component which ensures all critical activities are performed in the right sequence to ensure project success. C-CORE usually acts as facilitator and assists your project manager during the project, ensuring a smooth knowldege transfer. Our Methodology helps us reduce your project timelines and business time commitment required, while improving the overall quality of the evaluation process.
Once we review and prioritize your requirements, we are able to recommend the best vendors to include in your POS evaluation and selection project. Our POS Rapid Project Toolkit methodology progressively reduces the vendors in scope with our proprietary vendor scoring methodology. We provide for RFI’s, webinar reviews, RFP’s and onsite demos in our POS evaluation process, depending on what is right for your project. We get you to your goal of selecting the best vendor fit for your priorities, typically in 120 days or less, allowing you to use your time and resources to focus on using the technology to drive business improvement.