How We View Unified Commerce: 5 Key Elements

Jon Beck

There are 5 key elements to harmonize and align to achieve Unified Commerce, namely: store experience, digital experience, customer service, order management and data management. Each element is critical to optimizing speed, profitability, efficiency, accuracy and customer engagement. In doing so, retailers will achieve end-to-end visibility and an elevated, more profitable shopping experience.

With true Unified Commerce, retailers leverage a single platform, a single view and a single process across channels, in essence, One Truth. With common data and definitions, we can more clearly see how the consumer is shopping our brand.

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What is included in the 5 Components of Unified Commerce?

Store Experience

  • Customer Data & Loyalty
  • Cycle Counts
  • Endless Aisle
  • Full Omni – BOPIS+
  • Loss Prevention
  • Inventory Mgmt 
  • Payment Gateway
  • POS System
  • Pricing & Promotions
  • Private Label Credit Card – PLCC
  • Radio Frequency ID – RFID

Digital Experience

  • Content Mgmt System – CMS
  • Customer Data & Loyalty
  • Digital Asset Mgmt – DAM
  • Dropship
  • Ecommerce System
  • Full Omni – BOPIS+
  • Marketplaces
  • Mobile Devices Inventory Mgmt 
  • Payment Gateway
  • Pricing & Promotions
  • Private Label Credit Card – PLCC
  • Product Information Mgmt – PIM
  • Vendor Mgmt

Order Management

  • Endless Aisle
  • Full Inventory Visibility – POS, ERP, WMS
  • Full Omni – BOPIS+
  • Order Aggregation From All Channels
  • Order Fulfillment – Optimizing Backend Order Orchestration
  • Order Status & History
  • Order Updates – Deletion & Creation

Customer Service

  • Customer Service Representative (CSR) support with Customer
  • Order corrections and customer remediation
  • Order history (current, past)
  • Order on behalf of customer

Data

  • Customer Data & Analytics
  • Customer Data Deduping
  • Customer Data Platform
  • Customer Privacy
  • Customer Relationship Mgmt 
  • Data Governance
  • Data Mgmt 
  • Data Science Modeling
  • Digital Marketing Platform
  • Targeted Customer Interactions

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