NRF 2021

RPE / Capstone Integrated Solutions

Land O'Lakes,  FL 
United States
https://www.rpesolutions.com/
  • Booth: 4575

RPE and Capstone Integrated Solutions have joined forces to create a powerhouse in retail IT software services and solutions providing a broader and complementary offering. Both companies have a proven track record helping retailers increase sales, improve profits and enhance the customer experience. With over 25 years of experience, RPE offers strategic planning, process improvement, package selection, systems implementation and integration and cloud and managed services. Capstone, a full-service software and digital services company, brings premium engineering, cloud native and AI solutions to the partnership. Together, our team of industry experts is deeply skilled in selecting, designing, building and supporting software solutions across various platforms and verticals. We offer a complete breadth of services, from strategy, change management and software selection to implementation and support, helping clients succeed in an ever-evolving retail landscape. The companies are backed by Conanicut Capital and its IT Services Platform. Learn more at www.rpesolutions.com and www.capstone-is.com.


 Press Releases

  • Land O'Lakes, FL and Middletown, NY (September 4, 2024). Retail Process Engineering, LLC (“RPE), a leading supply chain IT consulting firm, has joined forces with Capstone Integrated Solutions LLC (“Capstone”), a full-service software and technology services company, on the IT Services Platform created by Conanicut Capital. Both RPE and Capstone have grown up in the retail sector and today provide complementary tech-enabled solutions across a growing list of enterprise-level customers, providing the platform a broader offering of IT services and capabilities.

    With support from Conanicut Capital, this partnership between RPE and Capstone is an integral next step in the platform’s long-term strategy to deepen its broad, scalable set of IT capabilities across implementation, development, consulting, and managed services.  Conanicut Capital plans to identify future strategic opportunities for partnership to further scale the platform and drive value for clients and employees.
     
  • LAND O’ LAKES, Florida and DOYLESTOWN, Pennsylvania –[today’s date] -- Maxava, a global provider of innovative high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR), and monitoring solutions, has announced a strategic partnership with Retail Process Engineering (RPE). The partnership will enable RPE to sell and service Maxava's solutions for the IBM i platform.

    As a Maxava partner, RPE, a leading retail consulting, data center and managed services company, will sell and run high availability and disaster recovery software for IBM i. RPE operates IBM Power servers on behalf of IBM i customers in two data centers, in Tampa, Florida, and Norcross, Georgia. Maxava’s software has been implemented at these sites to support customer operations, with plans for further expansion in the coming months.

    HA software ensures IT infrastructure remains operational by eliminating potential points of failure. In the event of a disruption or attack, DR focuses on quickly restoring applications and data center operations to minimize downtime.


     

 Products

  • Merchandise Management
    Merchandise Management is recognized as being a predominant retail solution addressing Purchasing, Allocations, Receiving, Transfers, Physical Inventory, Price and Cost Management, Replenishment and Sales Processing. This complete and integrated solution quickly enables retailers to drive sales, margins and cash flow by getting the right products to the right place at the right time. Retailers can reduce markdowns and better target merchandise allocations providing reliability, accuracy and a flexible configuration. With the visibility to make fact-based decisions and the flexibility to adapt to change, retailers realize value every step of the way. Proven to save time and resources, Merchandise Management can support growth plans and control inventory costs throughout the most complex, multi-channel retail environments.
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  • Planning
    Planning has become critical for companies to optimize all strategic, merchandise, assortment and operational activities across the supply and demand chain. Without an integrated Planning solution, retailers often operate inefficiently and even work at cross purposes. A robust Planning solution allows companies to easily tie enterprise-wide strategic plans to the execution of shared goals. By doing so, this helps to produce the most accurate, insightful, coordinated plans possible. Plus eliminate duplicate data sources, thereby allowing companies to maximize profits and minimize financial risk. Planning gives an organization the ability to focus a planner’s tasks in a clearly defined process, from Top Down through Bottom Up plans.
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  • Assortment
    Assortment is all about creating a superior customer experience and building brand loyalty. Today’s merchandise Assortment software combines in-depth analytics, consumer purchase preferences, assortment lifecycle planning and sizing and pre-pack optimization into a simplified workflow. The right assortment removes the guesswork and drives higher sales and margins across all channels with localized customer insights. With Assortment retailers achieve scalability, flexibility and ease of access to better compete in today’s fast-paced and volatile retail environment. Many retailers are faced with seasonality of products and getting the right inventory mix to meet peak demand without excessive markdowns is a challenge. With retail Assortment, it is easy to build assortments with tools designed to increase efficiency and effectiveness.
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  • Allocation
    Allocation software provides a quicker and more efficient process for creating and executing allocation plans. By translating customer knowledge, Allocation allows retailers to better allocate varying product assortments across the enterprise to increase profitability. Consumers are increasingly expecting seamless and value-driven shopping experiences. Having the right mix of products available at the right time continues to be one of the best ways for retailers to earn repeat business. Improved control of merchandising selection, deeper analysis and reporting features lend improved insight. With Allocation, retailers can create accurate, store-specific allocations for more strategic and tailored inventory and assortment plans. All of this enables retailers to plan, execute and manage complex allocations more effectively and efficiently.
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  • Replenishment
    Replenishment is an important inventory management solution for today’s business climate. It ensures that retailers always have sufficient inventory to meet customer demand and prevent both stockouts and overstocking. Omnichannel retailers find it even more challenging as each channel often requires different inventory items. Replenishment software can help do exactly that. For companies that must manage many SKUs, one of the most effective ways of making store replenishment more accurate, efficient, and cost-effective is by using a replenishment system specifically tailored to operations.

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