Frequently Asked Questions

Features & Capabilities

What features does Priority Retail Management offer to address retail management challenges?

Priority Retail Management provides a comprehensive suite of features designed to overcome common retail challenges, including: dynamic digital consumer analysis, omnichannel services, end-to-end supply chain visibility, and tools to prevent retail margin erosion. The platform includes modules for CRM, POS, e-commerce integration, inventory management, replenishment, order management, procurement, and workforce management. These features enable retailers to unify operations, analyze consumer data, and optimize inventory and order fulfillment across all channels. Learn more.

How does Priority help retailers implement omnichannel services?

Priority enables retailers to fuse physical and digital experiences, supporting unified shopping journeys. Its retail ERP integrates POS with e-commerce, allowing customers to continue their purchase experience seamlessly across channels. Retailers can offer consistent discounts and promotions online and in-store, ensuring data is synced in real time and customer engagement is maximized. Learn more about omnichannel CRM.

What advanced analytics capabilities does Priority provide?

Priority offers hundreds of pre-defined reports and no-code reporting tools, enabling actionable insights for better decision-making. Retailers can analyze consumer data from social media, in-store visits, and support interactions to generate valuable reports and forecasts. These analytics help businesses optimize operations and respond quickly to market changes.

Does Priority support industry-specific features for retail?

Yes, Priority provides tailored functionalities for retail, including centralized inventory management, omnichannel order fulfillment, customer loyalty programs, advanced promotion engines, and POS solutions. These features are designed to meet the unique needs of retailers and support multi-location, high-volume environments.

Pain Points & Solutions

What common retail management challenges does Priority help solve?

Priority addresses key retail management challenges such as poor quality control, lack of data flow across the organization, poor inventory management, margin erosion, manual processes, integration complexity, fragmented data, customer frustration, operational inefficiencies, and complex order fulfillment. The platform centralizes data, automates workflows, and provides real-time visibility to help retailers overcome these issues and drive business growth.

How does Priority help prevent retail margin erosion?

Priority's retail ERP accounts for factors that can negatively affect margins, such as internal errors, theft, fraud, market upheavals, and regulatory changes. By providing real-time data and analytics, retailers can identify causes of margin erosion and take steps to mitigate risks, ensuring profitability and long-term success.

How does Priority improve supply chain visibility for retailers?

Priority provides modules that enable end-to-end visibility of the supply chain, integrating procurement, production, packaging, delivery, and warehouse management. This ensures products are available, deliveries are timely, and stakeholders are aligned, reducing stockouts and delays.

Use Cases & Benefits

Who can benefit from using Priority Retail Management?

Priority Retail Management is ideal for retailers of all sizes, including niche online and offline stores, multi-location chains, and businesses seeking to scale operations. It is especially beneficial for CFOs, IT Directors, and Operations Leaders looking for a reliable, scalable ERP system that streamlines operations and avoids risks associated with legacy software. Learn more about Priority ERP.

What business impact can retailers expect from using Priority?

Retailers using Priority can expect enhanced operational efficiency, reduced costs, improved decision-making, and long-term adaptability. Features like integration simplicity, no-code customizations, advanced analytics, automation, and scalability help businesses achieve measurable results and support growth. Learn more about Priority.

What feedback have customers shared about Priority's ease of use?

Customers consistently praise Priority for its flexibility, high customizability, and intuitive interface. Allan Dyson (Merley Paper Converters) noted full process automation and ease of use. Martyn Young (Cherwell Laboratories) found Priority matched their needs out of the box. Tomer Lebel (Cyberint) stated Priority is much easier and simpler to operate than other leading ERP solutions. These testimonials highlight Priority's user-friendly design and adaptability. See more customer stories.

Competition & Comparison

How does Priority Retail Management compare to ERP competitors like Microsoft, Oracle, Acumatica, and Sage?

ERP competitors often offer generic, industry-agnostic capabilities and lack specialized retail management features such as head office controls, POS, and omnichannel commerce. Priority Retail Management delivers a comprehensive ERP suite enhanced for retail, supporting multi-location, omnichannel, and high-volume environments—all in one platform without requiring additional integrations.

How does Priority Retail Management compare to POS and unified commerce providers like Aptos, LS Retail, Retail Pro, Enactor, and Oracle Retail?

POS and unified commerce providers focus on retail management and POS but lack full enterprise management functionality, often relying on integrations to cover ERP needs. Priority Retail Management offers an end-to-end solution with ERP, retail management, unified commerce, and POS natively integrated, eliminating costly integrations and ensuring smooth operations across the retail chain.

Why should a retailer choose Priority over alternatives?

Priority stands out due to its integration simplicity, single source of truth, cloud-based scalability, no-code customizations, advanced analytics, industry-specific features, automation, and recognition by leading analysts like Gartner and IDC. Trusted by companies such as Toyota, Flex, and Teva, Priority delivers efficiency, adaptability, and long-term value. Learn more.

Implementation & Support

How long does it take to implement Priority Retail Management?

Implementation times vary based on business size and complexity. Industry-specific off-the-shelf solutions can be deployed within a few weeks, while tailored workflows, multi-site setups, or legacy data migration typically take 1-6 months. Professional services include configuration, data migration, and training to ensure a smooth process. Learn more.

What training and technical support is available for Priority customers?

Priority offers comprehensive support, including professional services for configuration, data migration, and training during implementation. Customers have access to on-site and virtual training, Priority Xpert (knowledge base, video tutorials, support tools), and multilingual support resources. Post-purchase support includes troubleshooting, system optimization, and assistance with updates or customizations. Learn more.

How does Priority handle maintenance, upgrades, and troubleshooting?

Priority provides automatic software updates and zero-downtime maintenance for aiERP. SaaS customers receive updates outside work hours, with upgrades tested before deployment. On-premises customers install updates themselves. Troubleshooting is available for the latest and second latest versions, with extended support for older versions for an additional fee. Learn more.

Customer Proof & Recognition

Who are some of Priority's retail customers?

Priority is trusted by leading retailers such as Ace Hardware, ALDO, Kiko Milano, Estee Lauder, Columbia, Guess, Adidas, and Hoka. These companies rely on Priority for retail management, ERP, and operational efficiency. See more customers.

Has Priority received industry recognition?

Yes, Priority has been recognized by leading analysts such as Gartner and IDC, and ranked #1 by TEC in 2025. This recognition highlights Priority's reliability, innovation, and value in the ERP and retail management space.

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May. 01, 2022
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How to overcome the biggest retail management challenges

Moti Lichi

Head of Strategy and Retail International Markets
Retail Management Challenges

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A recent Deloitte report revealed an expected GDP growth of 3.5% in 2022, suggesting rapid growth in the retail industry. The same report found that of the 50 executives surveyed, most were optimistic about enhanced margins and revenue growth. 58% of those interviewed felt that although there was inflation all around, it was an opportunity to strengthen margins and rethink strategies.

These strategies include winding operations in unprofitable locations and focusing on key methods to improve agility. The report stresses the importance of supply chain resilience and digital technologies to offer omnichannel retail services. In addition, focusing on retail margin erosion and implementing digital consumer analysis is crucial to success. the execution of these four strategies is challenging for most retail companies. However, they can be easily untangled using a dedicated retail ERP solution.

This article takes a quick look at how retail ERP can help overcome some of the biggest retail management challenges. 

1. Comprehensive and dynamic digital consumer analysis

Running a profitable retail business depends on several factors, including access to timely and accurate reports & forecasts. An insight-driven business strategy is essential for making retail businesses profitable.

Retail ERP's customer relationship management (CRM) module helps collect dynamic consumer data, both online and offline, and during customer interactions. These datasets allow you to gather valuable information, comprehensively analyze it, and gain deeper insight.

Data from social media, in-store visits, and various interactions with support teams can be analyzed to generate valuable insight-driven reports and forecasts.

2. Implementation of omnichannel services

The Deloitte paper stresses the importance of fusing physical and digital experiences to create unified shopping experiences. They noted that consumers still prefer alternating between visiting physical stores and ordering products from e-commerce stores.

It makes sense to use a tool that helps customers continue their purchase experience from where they left. Retail ERP comes with essential Point-of-Sale (PoS), integrated with e-commerce stores, allowing retailers to adapt to innovative and new ways of consumerism.

For example, when customers choose a product on an e-commerce store, then visit a physical store to evaluate it, and go back to ordering it online at a discounted price. With a retail ERP, you can avoid the loss of these customers by offering similar rates of discount on your website after they visit your store. In other words, retail ERP helps you expand your footprint at any customer touch-point.

3. End-to-end supply chain visibility

One of the biggest challenges of running a retail business is one's inability to manage stock and inventory in line with consumer demand. It is also difficult for companies to liaise with various stakeholders such as procurement, production line, packaging, delivery, and the warehouse.

Retail ERP comes with specific modules to enable these disparate business processes to help you gain end-to-end visibility of your supply chain, ensuring that your customers rarely see unavailable products or experience delays in deliveries.

4. Prevent and offset retail margin erosion

Margin erosion is the loss of margin that takes place over time and refers to the gradual loss of profits due to internal and external errors, theft and fraud, significant market upheavals, and changes in policies and regulations.

A retail ERP accounts for these different factors that could negatively affect your margins over time. Consequently, you can learn what is causing your retail margin erosion and take the necessary steps to mitigate risks.

Retail ERP is an effective way to tackle operational challenges.

A modern ERP can be easily customized to suit niche online and offline stores and scale up as your business grows. For example, You can initially choose modules that impact your operations most and gradually add features. This allows for quick implementation of omnichannel services, making your business available to your customers across channels, with all data synced in real time. It also helps to continuously gather essential consumer data, enabling you to implement ongoing digital consumer analysis for better insight.

Retail ERP's most crucial function is probably to provide you with end-trend supply chain visibility. These factors help you thwart insidious vulnerabilities that lead to retail margin erosion. Contact us today to find out how you can start using retail ERP to tackle modern challenges. 

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Moti Lichi

Head of Strategy and Retail International Markets

With extensive experience in product marketing, business development and product management, Moti has a proven track record of driving growth and innovation. He has held significant positions at CNext Ventures and Fundtech, focusing on financial services technology and corporate development. Moti's expertise lies in understanding retail market trends, and leading strategic initiatives. His leadership is marked by a commitment to excellence and a deep understanding of the dynamic nature of international retail markets.

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