Case Study – Nik Bakers : Using LS Retail to Increase Sales & Revenue  

Founded in 2006 by an Australia-return chef Nikhil Mittal, his father Mr. Vinod Mittal, Brother Mr. Nittin Mittal, Nik Bakers has rapidly ripened into a famous brand popular for its bread, cookies, cakes, and other mouth-watering delicacies. Chef Nik’s passion for freshly baked delectable and unparalleled designed products is the key component for its success.  His zeal and hard work paid off in the form of a successful venture that received awards such as Indian Restaurant Awards 2012, Times Food Awards, Times Food Awards 2013, and various medals.   Since Nik’s debut, they have strived to provide employment opportunities for women. 90% of its employees are women and 80% of them are new to baking when they join the company. Nik Bakers gives back to the community by sharing his love for baking.   As Nik began to expand, they noticed the inability of their current business management approach and decided to automate their operations. After conducting thorough research and considering various retail management software alternatives, they decided to use the complete LS Retail solution. Trident Information Systems helped them in implementing and attaining their desired outcomes.   Business Problems   Inefficient data due to juggling through different systems such as tally ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), email, and spreadsheets.   Disparate systems demanded dedicated time and workforce.    Using different systems required regular maintenance and upgrades.  Legacy POS (point of sale) systems would not exceed their billing abilities.  Inability to see the real status of inventory at the outlets.  Supply chain planning was hectic and became a tedious task.  Unsystematic communication would disturb the replenishment process.   Their management approach was adding more costs.   Business Needs   A unified retail management solution that brings together every retail management tool within the same platform.   A POS solution that surpasses traditional billing systems and enables additional features.  A solution that requires minimal maintenance and upgrades without disturbing the business’s ecosystem.   Real-time inventory updates and tracking across all the outlets.   A solution that simplifies and automates supply chain planning.  A unified solution that cuts implementation and upgrades costs.    Solutions Provided by Trident Information Systems   Nik Baker’s core targets were customer satisfaction and product availability. It was getting hard for them to achieve this with their management systems. So, they decided to shift them to an all-in-one approach.   A unified front office and back-office solution for a streamlined business ecosystem.  Consolidated finance management to accelerate reconciliation.   Promotion and loyalty program management with reports on clients.  Recipe management for better cost controlling.  Real-time product availability tracking and updating.   Linked replenishment with the POS system to speed up the process.   Automate the planning process with POS.   Predictive sales forecast data with smart shipment planning.    Benefits to Business    After implementing the LS Retail solution, Nik Baker could witness enhanced business productivity. The solution delivered numerous benefits such as:   Financial reconciliation became faster with a consolidated finance management system.   Their working capital could free up and engage in other productive activities.   Witnessed a more rapid return on investment.   With sales forecast data, the business could manage its inventory better.   The planning process became a lot simpler, and the predictive sales forecast added benefits.   Replenishment did not require direct communication between employees any longer, instead, the POS system was efficient enough to manage it.   With reports on customer data, the business could offer more influential loyalty programs, promotions, and offers. Therefore, boosting sales.    Why LS Retail Solution?   When you implement the LS Retail solution, you can access a complete suite of all the retail management functionalities, while saving on your IT costs which includes software administration. In addition, it streamlines your overall business as everything is accessible on the same platform.    An all-in-one POS Solution   The Point-of-Sale solution outraces your legacy billing software. It assists your employees as a smart assistant helping view inventory availability and product details. The ability to work offline adds one more quality to it.   AI-Powered Recommendation Engine  Via an AI-powered recommendation engine, you can help your customer find products they are bound to like. The engine runs through your customer’s shopping history, understands their algorithm, and alters their recommendation list.    Automatic Replenishment with Forecasting   You can now purchase the right quantity of inventory and further distribute them to the stores according to their demand in a particular location using automatic replenishment with forecasting.     Loyalty Programs and Promotions  This system extracts customer data and turns them into actionable reports, which helps create effective loyalty programs, promotions, offers, and deals.   About Trident   Trident Information Systems is a global consulting organization that empowers businesses across the globe to transform and grow their business digitally. With a strong track of accomplishments, Trident became a Gold Microsoft Dynamics365 and LS Retail implementation partner. We are reinforced with a massive team of experts who deliver strategic consultancy, implementation services, and pre-built software solutions.  

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Since opening its first branch in Defence Colony in 1986, Sagar Ratna has expanded and grown, becoming the preferred destination for South Indian cuisines across India. Today Sagar Ratna runs more than 90 restaurants, which include both company-owned and franchised outlets. In an ever-evolving market, Sagar Ratna believes in keeping customers loyal with constant innovations in its menu. Having won numerous awards in the hospitality industry in various categories over the years, Sagar Ratna continues to delight its customers with its authentic South Indian food cooked freshly many times a day. Download Case Study

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Case Study: Devyani International Limited (DIL) Choose LS Retail to Streamline Operations

Devyani International Limited (DIL) is the fastest growing company in the Indian retail Food & Beverage sector, with presence in 9 countries cutting across the Indian subcontinent, Nepal and Nigeria. Devyani International Limited currently has 300+ outlets of Pizza Hut, KFC, Costa, Vaango, Swensen’s, and many other brands. DIL‘s multi-format business includes quick service restaurants, fine dining, home delivery, catering and airport food courts. Looking for an efficient software system to back up company growth As all operations were managed through a legacy system, Devyani found it hard to control its outlets effectively. Download Case Study

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In 2007 HSIL Limited expanded its business portfolio further and Hindware Home Retail Pvt Limited (HHRPL) was incorporated. HHRPL, a 100% subsidiary of HSIL Limited, launched brand EVOK a chain of large retail format stores, offering home interiors & décor merchandise. There are 18 EVOK stores pan India at present. Download Case Study

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Relaxo Footwear finds the perfect fit with LS Retail

Relaxo Footwear, an avant-garde footwear manufacturer is a leading brand in India that used to focus primarily on wholesale distribution and exports. Planning the next spurt of high growth, it entered into company owned company operated (COCO) retail stores. Relaxo identified the need for an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution with an integrated Point of Sale (POS) solution to streamline and remotely manage and control retail operations., Relaxo decided to deploy LS Nav with the assistance of a local Microsoft Partner. LS Nav covers transactions from POS to back office functions to consolidate business operations at the head office. After a successful deployment, the company saves significant person hours each month. In addition, it has seen a reduction in operational costs and high return on investment. Management control over stores has improved with efficient monitoring of sales and profitability data. This high degree of control gives the management confidence to open many more retail outlets. Download Case Study

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SUCCESSFUL SELLING 50+ BRANDS OF LUXURY WATCHES WITH LS RETAIL NAV

With 35 watch boutiques across 10indian cities Ethos watch boutiques India’s largest chain of luxury watch boutiques. Ethos is an authorized retailer of over 50Luxury watch brands such as Omega, Tag, Heuer, Rolex, Cartier, Brieting, Redo, and Loginers Etc. Ethos brings to India the joy of luxury watch shopping by setting up India’s largest chain of fine watch boutiques. In 2003 they started with the first Ethos watch boutique in sector 8 Chandigarh and by 2011 they have 26 watch boutiques across 11 Indian Cities. Download Case Study

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Murata adopts Trident Field Serve: Mobile App for Service Management

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Global Supplier of Corrosion Protection Lubricants & Technologies Systems Provider Implements Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Since its inception in 1995, Zavenir Daubert India has been at the forefront of the Indian Industry in creating awareness towards corrosion management and delivering solutions to mitigate the impact of this menace. In the endeavour to achieve a greater role in the Indian metal working industry, they  have recently partnered with Chemische Werke Kluthe GmbH to manufacture and market their large range of products and technologies in India. Kluthe’s leadership position in the field of metal working fluids and cleaners combined with the Daubert® corrosion protection technologies provides them the a very unique ability to serve their customers with metal working and protection products to cater to their metal working needs giving them greater productivity, quality and overall cost efficiency. Download Case Study

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Education Consultants Speed up Services with Dynamic Real Time Information and Reports

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SHARDA MOTORS – Automotive Manufacturer Improves Inventory Control, Enhances Efficiency with Flexible ERP

Sharda Motor Industries Limited is a fast growing automotive manufacturing company. With multiple disparate systems running across 12 manufacturing plants, it was becoming increasingly difficult for Sharda Motor to effectively manage its business After a thorough search, Sharda Motor opted to migrate to Microsoft® Dynamics™ NAV 4.0 with SP3 to enhance its business processes. Microsoft® Certified Partner, Trident Information Systems assisted the company in implementing the same. Today, the company is using Dynamics NAV to standardize its operations on a common technology platform, helping to improve inventory tracking and make more informed business decisions in real-time. Download Case Study

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Stand alone systems for the different operations hindered Hasti Petro Chemical and Shipping, a logistics solution provider, from an end-to-end view of the business. Lack of real-time data availability not only created process inefficiencies, time and productivity loss but also made it difficult to plan ahead and drive future growth. Moving to Microsoft Dynamics, the company is now empowered with data to better control operations, leading to 100% increase in customer satisfaction Download Case Study

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African Conglomerate synergizes business operations through Microsoft Dynamics NAV

African Industries is a diverse West African Multinational with over 8,000 employees from more than 10 countries worldwide. The Group currently operates in eight different locations within Nigeria, and exports its products to other West African nations and is increasing investments in neighbouring countries. Its origins lie in trading soft and hard commodities imported from Europe and Asia. The Group’s presence in Nigeria is now entering its fifth decade. Investments in manufacturing commenced with the reforms instituted to support industry in the early 2000s as democracy was established. Download Case Study

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Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Limited (IREDA) is a Mini Ratna (Category – I) Government of India Enterprise

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India ‘s Leading Food service provider leverages Microsoft Power BI to gain insights and manage Retail Operation and Supply Chain Operations efficiently

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UTSAV – A Large online E-commerce retailer running Microsoft Dynamics NAV on Azure

With so much of the business riding on Portal, it became very important for E-Commerce Retailer to be able to get the most it could out of the application. There were four key improvements they wanted: lower costs, increased agility, ability to scale, and higher availability. Moving to the cloud addressed all four of those. They considered several cloud providers and eventually it became clear that moving to Microsoft Azure was the best bet. “We had an existing relationship with Microsoft and adding Azure to our services portfolio allowed us to strengthen our relationship and realize  synergies across the entire Microsoft portfolio.” Arvind puts it this way, “Our plan to move NAV to Azure has allowed us to be more cost competitive while at the same time has improved our ability to be more responsive to new business requirements.” Processes that used to take weeks are now completed in just a few days. Furthermore, changes in infrastructure are much more agile than before. Download Case Study

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Thar Dry Port is part of HPCSL’s , A Very well connected to the hinterlands through Road & Rail; the ICD is one of its kind in providing the flexibility of container movement by Rail and Road respectively. The uniqueness of the setup is its existence as the first privatized ICD in the state and country as well. They offer efficient and cost-effective cargo consolidation, warehousing, distribution, container storage and container repair services to meet the logistics needs of manufacturers, global retailers, consolidators and forwarders, shipping lines and container leasing companies. Download Case Study

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