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Retail & FMCG · Agency concept
Connected Retail Intelligence
Concept: POS/ERP records, master-data validation, reconciliation and automated exception workflows.
Concept / Proposed ArchitectureSynthetic demonstration
This is a conceptual architecture prepared by the agency to illustrate a combined approach. It is not a delivered client project.
Context & challenge
Retailers detect pricing and master-data problems after they have already cost margin.
Objectives
- Validate records as they change
- Route exceptions automatically
- Report on trusted data
Solution approach
- Scheduled and event-driven extraction
- Rule engine with reason codes
- Exception queue with owner assignment
- BI on validated tables
Architecture
- POS / ERP
- Extract
- Master-data validation
- Reconciliation
- Database
- BI
- Exception workflow
Simplified and anonymised. No private infrastructure details are published.
Important technical decisions
- Validation before reporting, not after
Operational considerations
- Source API limits
- Rule governance
Results
Results pending verification. We only publish outcomes that have been confirmed.
Visual demonstration
An interactive, synthetic demonstration related to this work is available in the laboratory.
Open demonstration