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Commodity Management & Trading

Transforming trading ecosystems through data-driven insights and secure, agile platforms that empower global commerce.

Customer & Marketing Strategy

Reimagining customer engagement with personalized, connected experiences that build trust and long-term value.

Digital Engineering

Turning ideas into scalable digital solutions—accelerating transformation through design, technology, and engineering excellence.

Station Studio

Redefining mobility hubs with digital innovation to create smarter, sustainable experiences for people and businesses on the move.

Supply Chain & Industry 5.0

Building resilient, intelligent supply networks that anticipate change and deliver efficiency with purpose.

Sustainability

Driving responsible innovation to help organizations achieve net-zero goals and create a positive impact for future generations.

Physical AI

Physical AI gives machines, robots and physical operations the ability to perceive their environment, decide what matters and act in real time. Factories, plants, stores and infrastructure become systems able to sense conditions, learn from them and improve on their own, closing the gap between the physical and the digital world.

Next-Gen Infrastructure

From networks as infrastructure to connected platforms that enable critical, autonomous and intelligent operations.

Real-time sales and stock for grocery stores, with fraud and food-safety alerts

A grocery store needs to hear about a pricing error or a food-safety issue while the shift is still running. This grocery retailer processed sales and stock in batches, so its stores worked with yesterday's numbers. NTT DATA redesigned the architecture for real time and added fraud, pricing and food-safety alerts, plus analytics by store and cashier.

Real-time sales and stock for grocery stores, with fraud and food-safety alerts

Profit per square meter, now on the sales floor of 13 department stores in Mexico

Every square meter in a department store has a cost, and the sales team decides what fills each one. A Mexican department store retailer built a report with NTT DATA linking profitability to floor space across 13 stores and 11 divisions. Sales teams use the report to decide on space and follow each action on the floor.

Profit per square meter, now on the sales floor of 13 department stores in Mexico

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Real-time sales and stock for grocery stores, with fraud and food-safety alerts

Sales and stock data: Real time

Stores see transactions and inventory as they happen.

Alerts: 3 types

Fraud, pricing and food safety, built into daily store operations.

Analytics: By store and cashier

Sales and productivity views for every point of sale.

Inventory management: Faster and more accurate

Stock levels follow what sells during the day.

Real Time Sales Inventory

Store decisions based on what is happening today

Objectives

Give stores real-time visibility of sales and inventory, and make store decisions faster and more accurate.

Opportunity

Real-time data supports alerts and analytics beyond the reach of batch processing.

Decisions on yesterday’s data

Stores managed stock, prices and risk with information from the day before. When a problem showed up in a report, the loss had already happened.

Key Challenges

1: Batch processing. Sales and stock data reached central systems in batches, hours after each sale.

2: Late fraud detection. Suspicious transactions surfaced late, often after the cash count.

3: Pricing and food-safety risks. Price errors and food-safety issues had no real-time warning.

4: No productivity view. Managers had no analytics on sales and productivity by store and cashier.

Solution

A real-time data and inventory architecture

NTT DATA diagnosed the limits of the existing systems, designed a real-time architecture and implemented a redesigned sales and inventory solution with advanced analytics and alerts.

Data flow assessment

The team assessed how sales and inventory data moved from the stores to central systems.

Real-time architecture

NTT DATA designed a new architecture to process sales and stock as each transaction happens.

Alerts

The solution sends fraud, pricing and food-safety alerts to the people who need to act.

Store and cashier analytics

Managers follow sales and productivity by store and by cashier.

Impact

Faster, safer store decisions

Inventory management is faster and more accurate, operational and compliance risks went down, and commercial decisions rely on real-time data. Alerts are now part of daily store operations.

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