Economic uncertainty. Price volatility. An overwhelming number of available solutions for everything from inventory management to loss prevention to source tagging and beyond. With so much changing so fast, it is difficult for a retailer to navigate alone.

Fortunately, there’s a new way to receive guidance from seasoned technologists and experienced retail leaders alongside proven industry-leading solutions – all under one programme with one predictable and easy-to-understand price model.

Introducing services that connect source to store. It is an all-inclusive programme from Sensormatic Solutions that combines the same services and solutions that retailers know and trust in a single package that is easy to implement and even easier to pay for. And there’s no better place to start with services that connect than by leveraging our Professional Consulting resource.

Here’s how our Professional Consulting service works, why it makes sense for retailers hoping to get more from their partnership with Sensormatic Solutions, and how to know if it’s right for you.

The right loss prevention, merchandise tagging or inventory management solutions can help your stores to mitigate shrink, improve the customer experience and even supercharge your omnichannel fulfilment. But the wrong technology integration can be a costly misstep, and replacing it often means sacrificing profit, time and customers.

To help retailers avoid those headaches and find the ideal solutions for their stores, our Professional Consulting service works closely with your team at every stage of the evaluation, procurement and implementation process.

Our business outcome-focused approach starts by defining your goals, needs, challenges and priorities. This approach includes building an in-depth understanding of your organisation, use cases, customers and markets, and evaluating the potential return on investment (ROI) of available solutions at the store and along the supply chain. It also includes delivering cutting-edge and innovative proof-of-concept test-and-learn trials and analysing the impact of new solution deployments as they would be integrated across your retail operations.

After we align on these aspects of your business, we craft a comprehensive roadmap designed to help you execute your technology transformation. It is a globally proven, systematic, reproducible approach to risk management that helps you to pilot, buy and implement with confidence.

But our commitment to service and support doesn’t stop there.

Whenever and wherever necessary, we’ll even provide solution lifecycle management. And since we know that retail today requires more than a ‘set it and forget it’ approach, our Professional Consulting specialists will partner with you for the long term, providing everything from strategic guidance to selection and implementation assistance to troubleshooting and beyond.

In short, our Professional Consulting service starts where your organisation currently is in its digital transformation, works with you from evaluation to execution to phasing out legacy systems, and stays with you as your needs, business and market change over time.

Our stand-alone Professional Consulting service has a decades-long, demonstrated track record of delivering transformative value for leading retailers worldwide, but when deployed alongside the full scope of services that connect, its value to the company is even greater.

This is because services that connect combines the best of our Professional Consulting service with all the hardware and software solutions you already use and trust from Sensormatic Solutions.

That means one technology provider, one point of contact, one point of escalation, one contract and one set of invoices to manage. No more headaches from managing different vendors and their processes, different account managers, different procurement or renewal schedules, and even different technology dependencies.

We’ll make sure everything is interoperable and working smoothly – and when obstacles arise, you will have one point of contact who can help you to find a solution, no matter what the issue may be. And, since all your solutions are within the Sensormatic Solutions umbrella, billing is easier than ever. Instead of paying individual prices for tags or labels, subscriptions, infrastructure and support services, with services that connect, you will pay one price based on a consumption model that includes all your infrastructure, subscriptions and contract services.

Ultimately, you will receive an end-to-end retail solution that delivers value throughout the supply chain and across the company. .

As always, our Professional Consulting service is still available to retailers who don’t participate in the services that connect programme. But many retailers – regardless of size and segment – can see additional value from partnering with us through services that connect.

One way to know if services that connect may be right for you is to consider whether you are already using Sensormatic’s inventory management, source tagging or loss prevention solutions, such as:

• Labeling (printing, encoding)
• Hardware (RFID exit systems, Electronic Article Surveillance [EAS], infrastructure, tags and labels)
• Software subscriptions (TrueVue Cloud, Shrink Analyzer)

If you are, you could easily bundle any – or all – of these solutions with our Professional Consulting service, along with our other offerings, including:

• Design, Deployment and Integration
• Learner Services
• Management and Support Services
• Customer Success
• Retail Consultancy

Best of all, you could get any or all of these offerings through a single arrangement with one price to pay. But even if you’re not already using any of Sensormatic’s solutions or services, you can still take advantage of services that connect. Thanks to the programme’s fully tailored and scalable model, almost any major retailer will be able to see immediate and lasting value from services that connect.

After all, it’s not a ‘one-size-fits-all’ programme – it’s a ‘tailored size that fits you’ programme.

Since our reach is truly global, we can serve retailers in North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region. And because we know that retailers’ needs vary from region to region, we’ll happily customise the programme’s offering to meet your needs..

Services that connect offers retailers the ability to take advantage of end-to-end services and solutions from a provider that is already trusted by countless retailers around the globe, while our Professional Consulting service gives retailers an added boost by leveraging the expertise of our seasoned retail consultants. It is perfect for retailers who want to get more from a partner they already rely on.

Of course, there’s no better way to find out if our Professional Consulting provision and services that connect are right for you than by talking to our experts. We’ll explore your options together and, if it’s a suitable fit, partner with you to build a programme that meets your unique needs and helps to elevate your retail operations.

Contact us today to start the conversation.