15th March, 2012 | Ballroom 1 & 2, Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Philippines

Manthan Systems hosted the first ARC BI customer meet in the Philippines, 'Pit-stops in the Aisles', an event where leading retailers from the Asia-Pacific region shared their experiences and insights on strategic business analytics initiatives that have helped them foster competitive advantage and improve operating efficiencies.

Manthan highlighted the strategic use of analytics for more effective decision-making and show-cased the latest additions to its retail-specific product portfolio, ARC, including the new solutions focused on Financial Analytics (for controllers/accounting teams in retail), HR Analytics (for HR teams in retail) and Mall Analytics (for Mall operation / Leasing teams).

Manthan's expert teams shared the latest retail analytics trends and best practices that emerged out of NRF 2012, held recently at New York. They outlined developments transforming the retail analytics landscape such as guided/predictive analytics, mobile BI for the iPad, ABC Analysis and Product Affinity and gave an overview on how these fit into ARC and Manthan's roadmap.

Booth No. 2369 | 15th - 18th January, 2012 | Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York City

Manthan Systems participates at Retail’s Big Show, the NRF 101st Annual Convention & Expo at New York, where it will unveil its revolutionary 3^rdi range of analytics applications. The mega NRF retail event brings together the world’s leading retailers and strategic partners to share ideas, showcase solutions, network and embrace new technologies to drive the industry forward.

Manthan’s game-changing 3^rdi is the first-of-its-kind retail BI application, focused on enabling retailers to move towards business-critical action. Peter Charness, President, Manthan Americas will highlight the capabilities of 3^rdi and explain how it will help retailers assess situations, identify opportunities, simulate alternatives and finally take action on a range of retail situations.

13 October, 2011 | Institute of Directors, London

Manthan Systems, in association with PlanetRetail, hosts an interactive and illuminating discussion 'Collaborating4profit: Supplier Portal & Analytics' that brings together supply chain professionals and C-level executives from the retail industry in UK and Europe to discuss technology initiatives that aid superior supplier collaboration.

Manthan will drive discussions on technology led initiatives that can help retailers take supplier collaboration beyond mere transactional visibility and information exchange to higher levels of collaborative planning and decision-making.

Highlighting some of the benefits of collaborating on higher levels, Manthan introduces Supplier Portal & Analytics (SPA) - the only comprehensive, analytics-aided collaboration platform, exclusively designed for retail. Manthan outlines SPA's unique capabilities to get retailers and suppliers to proactively plan promotions, synchronize stock movements, and manage margins better.

12 July, 2011 | JW Marriott Hotel, Dubai

Manthan Systems hosts a discussion forum entitled ‘Action points in Retail’ in Dubai, targeted at C-level executives and Merchandise Managers of top retail enterprises in the UAE. The interactive session will explore the critical need for actionable intelligence for retailers to stay agile and competitive.

Leading the forum with a talk, ‘Action Points in Retail’, Manthan experts highlight the importance of BI solutions that go beyond mere insights and intelligence to provide retailers with specific guidelines for action.

Manthan presents its award-winning solution ARC to set right common misconceptions about analytics as a business tool disconnected from action. ARC’s success lies in its ability to provide actionable intelligence and on-the-ground decision support on retail functions such as merchandising, inventory, promotions and sales.

29 June, 2011 | Intercontinental, Bangkok

Manthan Systems and Infolyst join together to host an enlightening session “Action Points in Retail” exclusively targeting retailers, Merchandise Managers and C-level executives from top retail enterprises in Bangkok.

The event will highlight the challenges Asian retailers typically face in getting Business Intelligence to tie in with actual on-the-ground decision making. Mr Steven Goh, MD & CEO, The Business Company (P) Ltd and Executive Chairman of Retail Asia Publishing (Singapore) will give an incisive talk on “What keeps Asian retailers awake at night” - a presentation on Retail-Supplier collaboration as a comprehensive remedy to overcome the problem of analytics isolated from action.

Manthan will outline merchandising best practices and highlight the advanced capabilities of its ARC suite designed to help Merchandise Managers draw effective and actionable outcomes from Business Intelligence.

20-21 June, 2011 | Regents Park Marriot, London

Top level Retailers, Supply Chain professionals and CPG Manufacturers come together to network and dialogue on critical Supply Chain challenges. The peer to peer forum will cut across industry divides bringing together a wide array of industry players from UK and Northern Europe.

Delegates will deliberate on pressing issues in supply chains and touch on leading-edge developments and the immense possibilities in the evolving arena of retail supply chains. Leading retailers and CPG Manufacturers will present joint case studies that outline their experiences in successful collaboration.

Manthan will engage delegates in a comprehensive presentation on the ‘Supplier Collaboration Maturity Index’. Hiren Doshi, Product Head & Senior VP at Manthan, will walk delegates through a structured assessment process to measure the maturity of their collaborative efforts and highlight the value of single collaborative portals as against multiple point-to-point ones.

16th June, 2011 | Hotel Nikko, Jakarta, Indonesia

Manthan Systems and PT Karlin Mastrindo bring together top retailers and leading industry players for a comprehensive, in-depth discussion on the topic: ‘Supplier Collaboration’ to be held at Jakarta.

A wide range of executives and decision makers from across retail enterprises in Indonesia will interact and deliberate on key supply chain challenges faced by the industry and explore technology options that address these.

Manthan will focus on advanced portal-based technologies and highlight the use of Supplier Portals towards enhanced supplier collaboration and increased productivity. The discussion will emphasize the potential of such portals to establish automated and collaborative workflows among retailers and suppliers and provide them with near-real time visibility and efficiency gains at every level of the retail supply chain.

9 June, 2011 | Kuala Lumpur Convention Center, KL

Manthan Systems and Wincor Nixdorf will engage with Retailers, Merchandise Managers and CEOs of leading Retail Enterprises in Malaysia at this interactive session at KL titled 'Action Points in Retail.'

The session will highlight the urgent need for analytics and action to converge in meaningful ways to provide retail professionals with powerful decision-support that will help them take specific actions on a wide range of strategic, tactical and operational aspects of their business.

Manthan will outline Merchandising Best Practices and explore how leading global retailers are integrating intelligence with action to effectively manage their decision-making with the power of action oriented Business Intelligence.

17th May - 19th May, 2011 | The Fairmount Scottsdale Princess, Scottsdale, Arizona

The Next Generation Retail Summit 2011 held at Arizona, USA served as a forum for senior level executives to engage in clear and focused dialogue with their peers and examine their management objectives in a relaxed and vibrant environment.

At the recently concluded event, Peter Charness, President, Manthan Americas gave pointers to leading retailers and industry players on 'Measuring Success within the World of 24x7 Social Retail' at a well-attended workshop.

He spoke on best practices for decision support and highlighted the need for Operational Business Intelligence (BI) for retailers to ensure that their Marketing and Merchandising methods are selected, tested, measured and moved forward or dropped based on BI and Analytics.

13th April - 15th April, 2011 | Orlando, Florida

The Fourth Annual Business Executive Summit 2011 is a peer-to-peer networking summit focusing on “Innovation in Action” brings together a wide range of executive leaders across the retail enterprises. Manthan Systems will be previewing ARC Action Points, a unique and completely novel series of Retail Business Process Execution Modules at the event.

At RTC 2011, Peter Charness, President of Manthan Americas, will discuss how to "Turn information into action". ARC Action Points extends ARC's strong, guided analytical capabilities to allow for simulation and modeling of "best outcome" decisions, and then through collaborative workflows provides the capabilities for decisions to be reviewed, approved and executed. ARC Action Points provides the first truly packaged set of capabilities for Retailers to exploit "Operational Business Intelligence (BI)".

16th March - 17th March, 2011 | Earls Court, London

An exclusive opportunity provided by Manthan Systems at Retail Business Technology Expo in UK to view next generation analytic and BI solutions specifically for retailers and CPG organisations. 

Retail Business Technology Expo is the major new solutions exhibition in UK providing a combination of an exhibition with an independent education programme incorporating seminars, workshops and a host of networking opportunities for all categories of retailers and merchandisers. 

26th February - 2nd March, 2011 | Dusseldorf, Germany

Manthan Systems showcased its range of ARC retail analytics solutions at the EuroShop 2011 & how the ARC Retail BI suite reduces the deployment lifecycle and the total cost of ownership of deploying a business intelligence platform, while bringing best-practice analytics and data warehousing standards to the retailer’s enterprise BI platforms.

With more than 1,00,000 delegates from 93 countries in attendance, EuroShop 2011 hosted some of the leading stalwarts of the retail trade industry; providing an ideal platform for productive networking among retailers and suppliers.

27th February - 1st March, 2011 | The Fairmont Turnberry Isle Resort & Club, Florida, USA

RetailConnections is a peer-to-peer networking event providing quality opportunities for networking, brainstorming; including thought-leadership presentations and discussions for decision makers and business heads.

Join Peter Charness, President of Manthan Americas at RetailConnections as he provides a preview of Manthan's ARC for Action points and discusses how to "Turn information into action".

28th January, 2011 | Hotel Nikko, Jakarta, Indonesia

Build or Buy: this is the key dilemma that enterprises have to resolve while evaluating options in Retail BI solutions. Manthan Systems took the delegates on a walkthrough of the two scenarios and provided a framework for decision-making. 

The Buy option offers you prebuilt Retail BI solutions created by domain experts using industry best practices. These business ready solutions are good to go at one-third the cycle time with granular level customizations. At the same time, the incentive for ‘Build’ is a custom-made solution with no redundant features, lean, cost effective and completely suited for the organization’s unique needs

Booth No. 1477 | 9th - 12th January, 2011 | Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York City

Manthan Systems previewed the ARC Action Points, a unique and completely novel series of Retail Business Process Execution Modules at NRF 2011. ARC Action Points extends ARC's strong guided analytical capabilities to allow for simulation and modeling of "best outcome" decisions, and then through collaborative workflows provides the capabilities for decisions to be reviewed, approved and executed. 

The Big Ideas Session this year was by Peter Charness, President- Manthan Americas. Peter talked about Assortment Management and providing powerful insights on techniques to help perfect assortment management & planning. 

NRF is the world’s largest retail trade association, with membership that comprises all retail formats and channels of distribution. Retail’s Big Show is their Annual Convention & EXPO, the largest show in retail industry and is attended by over 18000 delegates.