Makira brings the experience and insights to help your business realize success in retail investment strategies.
We have the expertise in identifying the risks and gaps with a potential acquisition, can identify quick ROI initiatives helping to reduce operating costs and boost profitability, and can put together a technology roadmap that aligns with the strategies of your investments. We focus on the intersection of People, Technology, and Process to ensure the success of your retail portfolio.
Expertise in both pre-deal strategy & assessment as well as post deal integration efforts. Develop acquisition strategy tools aligned with investment objectives and complete in depth assessments of potential acquisitions identifying risks, opportunities, and recommendations for post deal system and process improvements. Proven tools to quickly integrate mergers including data migration/transformation and integration playbooks to leverage the synergies of the combined business.
Review of investment objectives, project charters and conduct stakeholder interviews
Customized Acquisition Evaluation Scorecard
Target Acquisition Retail Technology Assessment Report
Gap and Risk Analysis Assessment Reports
Retail Systems Financial Assessment Report
Provide project management during the merger process
Manage 3rd party stakeholders and align all parties via a centralized project plan
Perform data migration and implement new integrations as needed to support the merger
Define and implement change management activities associated with the merger
How Makira Can Solve for the Above Items
Focused on core business processes (Logistics, Merchandising, Store Operations, Accounts Payable, Digital Commerce, Reporting & Analytics), lead a full review of existing processes, resources, and systems identifying opportunities for investments and process change to better leverage system capabilities, improve business efficiencies, and reduce operating costs.
Alignment with investment objectives
Benchmark KPI’s with industry leaders
Technology gap analysis
ROI analysis and prioritization of investment recommendations
Project and technology roadmaps
Technology Architecture Review
Resource gap analysis
Provide project management to implement standardization and optimization plans
Perform data migration and ongoing integration work to streamline and standardize systems
Conduct change management to document and train on system changes
How Makira Can Solve for the Above Items
Complete assessment of the retail technology landscape with recommendations on the investments and changes necessary to create a self-sustaining division of the organization in preparation to sell. Focused on the systems and resources needed to support both organizations post divestiture with the change management and project leadership to successfully achieve the objective.
Review customer investment objectives and complete Stakeholder interviews
Review existing Project Charter / Project Goals
Retail Technology Assessment Report
Gap Analysis Assessment Report
Risk Assessment Report
Retail Systems Financial Assessment Report
Provide project management during the company separation process
Manage 3rd party stakeholders and align all parties via a centralized project plan
Perform data migration and implement integrations needed to support the separation
Define change management activities associated with the separation
Manage deployment and ongoing support needed to support company separation
How Makira Can Solve for the Above Items
Deliverables
Retail Technology Assessment Report
Retail Technology Assessment Report
Documentation of existing systems and their ability to support current & future business needs
Document current and future IT landscape / architecture
Gap Analysis
Assessment Report
Gap Analysis
Assessment Report
Document product feature and functionality gaps between existing systems and business requirements
Document product feature and functionality gaps between existing systems and new systems
Risk Assessment Report
Risk Assessment Report
Document risks associated with existing retail IT systems and their support of current and future business processes
Document risks associated with moving to new retail IT systems and solutions
Work with 3rd party vendors to conduct Cyber Security analysis and Business Continuity plan
Retail Systems
Financial Assessment Report
Retail Systems
Financial Assessment Report
Document the costs associated with keeping existing systems running vs implementing new systems.
Document the labor, resources and business processes costs to support recommendations.
Review of contracts or license agreements identifying short and long term risks and opportunities.
Technology
Investment ROI Report
Technology
Investment ROI Report
Documentation of the financial return on investment opportunities for recommendations
Acquisition Evaluation Scorecard
Acquisition Evaluation Scorecard
Creates a structured and objective evaluation of potential acquisitions and ensures alignment of any targeted businesses with the growth goals for the organization.
Deliverables
Project Management
Project Management
Project Charter
Project Plan / Integration Playbook
Resource Plan
Change Requests
Risk Plan
Project Retrospectives
Lead RFI and RFP process to solve for existing Retail IT shortcomings
Data Migration
& Ongoing Integrations
Data Migration
& Ongoing Integrations
Integration requirements
Integration architecture diagrams
Integration mapping sheets
Data migrations for one time data conversions
Data migrations for one time data conversions
System connector implementations for ongoing interfaces
QA testing
Monitoring and error reporting
Change Management Documentation
Change Management Documentation
Business requirements gathering and formal documentation
Test plans & test scripts
Training documentation
SOP documentation
Deployment and Ongoing support
Deployment and Ongoing support
Deployment training plan
Systems roll-out plan
Deployment resource plan
Post deployment resourcing plan for long term support for the above items
