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C-CORE has developed the most comprehensive methodology, RAPID Project Toolkits, for evaluating and selection technology available in retail. Our RAPID Project Toolkits methodology provides the framework and we provide the expertise to guide you through all project phases, from evaluation of your current state to defining your scope, objectives and priorities, evaluating and selecting the right vendor solution based on your priorities and objectives and navigates you through a successful project launch in preparation for deployment.

Our RAPID Project Toolkits ™ methodology provides you with a detailed project timeline and resource commitments by week before we arrive onsite. Our tools are customized and ready for your team upon arrival, allowing us to maximize your team’s time by first defining your scope and objectives with our proprietary Process Wheel:

We deliver:
-Scope and objectives
- Key differentiators
- Management priorities
-Detailed , prioritized functional and technical requirements

in a week or less, allowing us to determine the right next steps, and the right vendors to include in the analysis. Depending on your organization, business process design and optimization may require some tough decisions, which we capture with our Key Design Points log, as reference for all stakeholders so we minimize revisiting critical decisions which can impact project timelines.

Vendor demonstrations, webinars, RFI’s, RFP’s, vendor webinars, on site demonstrations, Conference Room Pilots? All of the above? How can your team get through all of this as efficiently as possible and reach the right vendor decision?

The RAPID Project Toolkits methodology provides tools and templates for each phase of the evaluation process, allowing comprehensive analysis of the vendor space and narrowing the possibilities from a large vendor universe of possibilities to the RIGHT CHOICE for you.

Our advanced proprietary scoring methodology enables you to focus on the ability of each vendor to provide your critical differentiators, the key components of your project that are those project drivers deemed highest priority for your company.

C-CORE has evaluated more than 45 POS Software vendors over the past 4 years, and 15 legitimate contenders in the Workforce Management space, giving us the insight to make the best recommendation for your vendor list based on your priorities.

For Fresh Item Management and Store Replenishment, the universe is very small and may require analysis of homegrown applications as well as the limited number of package solutions available today.

Selecting the vendor means the real work gets started. We recommend that a detailed GAP analysis be completed prior to contract signing, and we have the tools and templates to facilitate that process. If the evaluation process is stalled between two contending vendors, we recommend a detailed CRP process with the vendors evaluated and scored head to head by functionality, easily supported by the CRP section of our POS Deployment RAPID Project Toolkits.

C-CORE’s Project Launch and Deployment tools are based on 3 key principles:

1. Many retailers are currently still developing a PMI (Project Management Institute) orientation and lack the capacity for a full PMO (Program Management Office) with a standard library of tools and templates. We provide practical tools for execution that are preloaded with the relevant project content.

2. The project launch phase of the project is a critical period for the retailer to begin PLANNING for project execution to ensure that the change management , training approach and materials, testing methodology and deployment approach are detailed so they are available with your system software and interfaces, so you can reap the benefits of your new system as efficiently as possible.

3. Most vendors are weak on overall project planning elements included in item2 above, so your project may need a jump start to hit the ground running.

NRF-ARTS RFP Partnership

C-CORE Retail Consulting Group, in partnership with IHL Services, are the first consulting companies certified as an NRF ARTS RFP partners , and are contributors to NRF ARTS POS, Payments, Workforce Management and Fresh Committees.

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