Solutions designed for Retailers
Tahola specialise in providing Performance Management solutions for retailers and we have developed a solution called EposMart. This is a proven solution which won a European Retail Solution award in 2001. EposMart is a datamart application developed using Microsoft SQL Server and will link to most retail systems.
Tahola's retail experience means a quick understanding of your requirements, fast solution delivery and on-going assistance to help you see the maximum return. The typical ROI is less than 18 months and in some cases is significantly shorter.
What are the benefits?
- Understanding performance right across your business, whether you are interested in products, stores, areas, brands, staff and suppliers, etc. All the information is easy to access and readily available to help you make more informed decisions.
- Timely information that allows you to react quicker by being able to spot irregularities and to correct them quickly.
- Giving you greater visibility across all stores to help you secure new customers and increase revenue streams.
- Knowing where demands for products are increasing or declining helps you to ensure that stores are stocked with the right products at the right time when the customers want to buy them.
- Understand your customers and the most profitable markets by having information about sales, stock, margins, products, stores and possible fraud at your fingertips.
- Saves you time as you are not waiting on others to provide you with information.
Use EposMart to:
- Interrogate epos, stock and audit data; Cognos tools are provided.
- Deliver information automatically to users.
- Present a birds eye view of the business using Key Performance Indicators compared to a target.
- Drill into detailed information down to SKU and transaction level.
More specifically, our customers use EposMart to:
- Compare performance against plan, last year, forecast.
- Understand like for like and capex performance.
- Understand the results of promotions and plan the next one.
- Spot products that are declining before they become a problem.
- Monitor waste, till and operator performance.
- Analyse margin by product, supplier, area, brand, store, and category.
- Review stock cover by category, store and fascia.
- Conduct range reviews.
- Basket analysis and monitoring of the ATV.
- Provide hourly, daily, weekly and monthly performance statistics.
EposMart can be integrated with our AccountsMart application for the analysis of the profit and loss account and InvoiceMart for mail order and e-commerce retailers for the analysis of customers. We can also integrate data from payroll, HR, loyalty, customer counting, supply chain, and any other system to provide a holistic view of the business.
See the ROI download for more detailed information about where our customers have seen a return on their investment.


