SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA ACQUISITION, DATA WAREHOUSING, AND PROVIDING BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE IN A RETAIL ECOSYSTEM

摘要

A method for providing consistently formatted data relating to the exchange of goods in a retail ecosystem. The method may generally include acquiring data relating to the exchange of goods from at least one supplier and at least one retailer, normalizing the acquired data and storing the normalized data in one or more structured databases, and providing business intelligence tools, accessible to the at least one supplier and at least one retailer for accessing the one or more structured databases. The business intelligence tools may provide consistently formatted data from the structured databases to each of the at least one suppliers and consistently formatted data from the structured databases to each of the at least one retailers.

主权项

1. A method for providing business intelligence information relating to exchanges of goods in a retail ecosystem, the method comprising:
acquiring electronic data, through an electronic network, from a plurality of trading partners of the retail ecosystem, the electronic data relating to goods exchanged between the trading partners; transforming the electronic data to a normalized format and storing the transformed data in the normalized format in a plurality of structured databases stored on a computer-readable storage medium, wherein at least one structured database is associated with each trading partner; presenting through a business intelligence tool, accessible to the trading partners through an electronic network and displayable on an electronic display device, at least a portion of the data from one or more of the structured databases in a predetermined report structure.