Submitted To: Subbmitted By:

Prof. Nidhi Natrajan Manoj Kr. Verma

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 Siddhant Jain
Abdul Haseeb Khan

Big Bazar
Big Bazar , is the chain of retail stores of the Big banner Pantaloon Retail (India) Ltd., which in
turn is a segment of Kishore Biyani, regulated Future Group of Companies. Moreover the
customer friendly ambiance and the organized retailing of products also makes Big Bazar one of
the successful retail companies in India. The chain was inspired by Saravana Stores, a hugely
popular shop in Chennai which made huge profits by selling everything under the sun at prices
much less than other shops.

Big Bazar Overview:

Big Bazar, a part of the Pantaloon Group, is a hypermarket offering a huge array of goods of
good quality for all at affordable prices. Big Bazar with over 50 outlets in different parts of
India, is present in both the metro cities as well as in the small towns. Big Bazar has no doubt
made a Big name in the retail industry of india, moreover shopping here is further made a
memorable experience with the varied rates of discounts on products as well as discount
vouchers available in a variety of amounts, like INR 2000, INR 3000, INR 4000, INR 5000 and
INR 10000 on all Big Bazar products and accessories.

BOARD OF DIRECTOR
Mr. Kishore Biyani, Managing Director
Mr. Gopikishan Biyani, Whole time Director
Mr. Rakesh Biyani, Whole time Director
Mrs. Veda Prakash Arya, Director
Mr. Shailesh Haribhakti, Independent Director
Mr. S Doreswamy, Independent Director
Dr. D O Koshy, Independent Director
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Mrs. Anju Poddar, Independent Director
Mrs. Bala Deshpande, Independent Director
Mr. Anil Harish, Independent Director

IT Essential For Growth

As with all businesses, after a certain amount of growth there is a need for IT. For consolidating
growth, the retail segment in India is also doing the same. The recently-formed Retail
Association of India’s first annual national conference had the theme of IT as an enabler to the
retail business.
The attitudinal shift of the Indian consumer in terms of "Choice Preference", "Value for Money"
and the emergence of organised retail formats have transformed the face of Retailing in India.
With a growth over 20 percent per annum over the last 5 years, organised retailing is projected to
reach US$ 23 Billion by 2010.
The Indian retail industry though predominantly fragmented through the owner -run " Mom and
Pop outlets" has been witnessing the emergence of a few medium sized Indian Retail chains,
namely Pantaloon Retail, RPG Retail, Shoppers Stop, Westside (Tata Group) and Lifestyle
International.
Given the attractiveness of the Indian retail sector, foreign retailers like Wal-Mart, Carrefour SA,
Europe's largest retailer and Tesco Plc, the UK's largest retailer, were keen to enter this growing
market, despite the Indian retail sector being closed to foreign direct investment (FDI).
In the last few years, Indians have gone through a dramatic transformation in lifestyle by moving
from traditional spending on food, groceries and clothing to lifestyle categories that deliver
better quality and taste. Modern retailing satisfies rising demand for such goods and services
with many players entering the bandwagon in an attempt to tap greater opportunities.

Which type of data used by Big bazar

The purpose of this document is to describe an integration between Openbravo ERP and a
business intelligence server for the purpose of providing business intelligence dashboards and
reports based on Openbravo ERP content.

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E technology in Retail store
Over the years as the consumer demand increased and the retailers geared up to meet this
increase, technology evolved rapidly to support this growth. The hardware and software tools
that have now become almost essential for retailing can be into 3 broad categories.

Customer Interfacing Systems

• Bar Coding and Scanners
Point of sale systems use scanners and bar coding to identify an item, use pre-stored data
to calculate the cost and generate the total bill for a client. Tunnel Scanning is a new
concept where the consumer pushes the full shopping cart through an electronic gate to
the point of sale. In a matter of seconds, the items in the cart are hit with laser beams and
scanned. All that the consumer has to do is to pay for the goods.
• Payment
Payment through credit cards has become quite widespread and this enables a fast and
easy payment process. Electronic cheque conversion, a recent development in this area,
processes a cheque electronically by transmitting transaction information to the retailer
and consumer's bank. Rather than manually process a cheque, the retailer voids it and
hands it back to the consumer along with a receipt, having digitally captured and stored
the image of the cheque, which makes the process very fast.
• Internet
Internet is also rapidly evolving as a customer interface, removing the need of a
consumer physically visiting the store.
Operation Support Systems
• ERP System
Various ERP vendors have developed retail-specific systems which help in integrating all
the functions from warehousing to distribution, front and back office store systems and
merchandising. An integrated supply chain helps the retailer in maintaining his stocks,
getting his supplies on time, preventing stock-outs and thus reducing his costs, while
servicing the customer better.
• CRM Systems

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 The rise of loyalty programs, mail order and the Internet has provided retailers with real
access to consumer data. Data warehousing & mining technologies offers retailers the
tools they need to make sense of their consumer data and apply it to business. This, along
with the various available CRM (Customer Relationship Management) Systems, allows
the retailers to study the purchase behavior of consumers in detail and grow the value of
individual consumers to their businesses.

• Advanced Planning and Scheduling Systems

APS systems can provide improved control across the supply chain, all the way from raw
material suppliers right through to the retail shelf. These APS packages complement
existing (but often limited) ERP packages. They enable consolidation of activities such
as long term budgeting, monthly forecasting, weekly factory scheduling and daily
distribution scheduling into one overall planning process using a single set of data.
Leading manufactures, distributors and retailers and considering APS packages such as
those from i2, Manugistics, Bann, MerciaLincs and Stirling-Douglas.

Strategic Decision Support Systems

• Store Site Location
Demographics and buying patterns of residents of an area can be used to compare various
possible sites for opening new stores. Today, software packages are helping retailers not
only in their locational decisions but in decisions regarding store sizing and floor-spaces
as well.
• Visual Merchandising
The decision on how to place & stack items in a store is no more taken on the gut feel of
the store manager. A larger number of visual merchandising tools are available to him to
evaluate the impact of his stacking options. The SPACEMAN Store Suit from AC
Neilsen and ModaCAD are example of products helping in modeling a retail store
design.

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What are the benefit to use data were in Big Bazar

First steps with Openbravo

Logging in
When you log into Openbravo ERP for the first time you will use the following authentication
details:
• Username: Openbravo
• Password: openbravo
All usernames and passwords in Openbravo ERP are case-sensitive.
When you create a client, Openbravo ERP creates a specific client admin account and role that
you will use to configure the rest of the clients.

Configuring the Instance Purpose

The first time that you login, the system invites you to set the instance purpose, the available
values are: Production, Testing, Evaluation and Development.
The purpose is shown on the home page so, in case of using different instances, it will help you
to easily differentiate which one is in Production status and which are Development or Testing
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instances. The purpose is also mandatory to activate Professional/Basic Edition instances, the
value of the drop down menu is defaulted from the selected option. If you enable heartbeat this
information is also send.

Configuring the Heartbeat

The first time that you login, after setting the instance purpose, the system invites you to
configure the heart beat.
The heart beat collects anonymous information about your installation and periodically sends it
to Openbravo. This helps us improve the quality of the software and understand its worldwide
use.
Additionally, some Openbravo features require the heart beat to be enabled.
We strongly recommend that you enable the heart beat for your system upon your first login. To
do so:
• Click Continue
To learn more about the heart beat and learn how to change your initial heart beat configuration,
please consult the Heart Beat section of the User Manual

Activating your instance

Initially, Openbravo ERP is distributed as a Community Edition configuration. To start enjoying
the benefits of a Professional/Basic Edition deployment, we recommend that you acquire a
Professional/Basic Edition subscription.
Learn more about the Openbravo Professional/Basic Edition options and how to acquire them.

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Once you have acquired a Professional/Basic Edition subscription, follow these instructions to
activate your instance.
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Data Warehouses
Dramatic advances in data capture, processing power, data transmission, and storage capabilities
are enabling organizations to integrate their various databases into data warehouses. Data
warehousing is defined as a process of centralized data management and retrieval. Data
warehousing, like data mining, is a relatively new term although the concept itself has been
around for years. Data warehousing represents an ideal vision of maintaining a central repository
of all organizational data. Centralization of data is needed to maximize user access and analysis.
Dramatic technological advances are making this vision a reality for many companies. And,
equally dramatic advances in data analysis software are allowing users to access this data freely.
The data analysis software is what supports data mining.

The Benefits of Data Warehouses

There are a number of reasons why many large corporations have spent large amounts of money
implementing data warehouses. The most fundamental benefit of using data warehouses is that
they store and present information in such a way that it allows business executives to make
important decisions. nstead of looking at an organization in terms of the departments that it
comprises, data warehousesallow business executives to look at the company as a whole.
Another benefit of data warehouses is their ability to handle server tasks connected to querying
which is not used by most transaction systems.
The vast majority of companies wish to set up transaction systems so there is a good chance that
these transactions will be completed within a desirable time frame. The Biggest problem with
reports and queries is that these entities can reduce the chances of a transaction being made
within a good time frame. It should also be emphasized that running reports on a server via
transaction systems can be quite challenging. Because of these challenges, many companies seek
to alleviate the problem by implementing a data warehouse system. Another powerful benefit of
data warehouses is that they allow compnies to use data models for querying tasks that are quite

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difficult for transaction processing.

There are a number of ways that data can be modeled, and the goal of modeling it is generally to
speed of reporting. This will often be done via a star schema, and it is generally not
recommended fortransaction processing systems. The reason for this is because certain modeling
methods can slow downtransaction processing systems. At the same time, the server units may
speed up the transaction process, but they will slow down the querying process. Perhaps one of
the most important benefits of data warehouses is that they set the stage for an environment
where a small amount of technical knowledge about databases can be used to write queries and
speed of the maintenance of these queries.

Simplicity plays an important role in the success of a data warehouse, and this is something that
companies will want to pay attention to early on. Most data warehouses can be set up in such a
way that simple queries can be written by workers who do not have a lot of technical skill. Even
then, workers who do not have a lot of technical skill will often run into problems when trying to
perform certain tasks. Data warehouses are unique in the fact that they can act as a repository, a
repository fortransaction processing systems that have been cleaned. The data can be reported
against them, and it may not require the transaction process systems to be fixed of calibrated.

How does data mining work?

While large-scale information technology has been evolving separate transaction and analytical
systems, data mining provides the link between the two. Data mining software analyzes
relationships and patterns in stored transaction data based on open-ended user queries. Several
types of analytical software are available: statistical, machine learning, and neural networks.
Generally, any of four types of relationships are sought:
• Classes: Stored data is used to locate data in predetermined groups. For example, a
restaurant chain could mine customer purchase data to determine when customers visit
and what they typically order. This information could be used to increase traffic by
having daily specials.
• Clusters: Data items are grouped according to logical relationships or consumer
preferences. For example, data can be mined to identify market segments or consumer
affinities.
• Associations: Data can be mined to identify associations. The beer-diaper example is an
example of associative mining.
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 • Sequential patterns: Data is mined to anticipate behavior patterns and trends. For
example, an outdoor equipment retailer could predict the likelihood of a backpack being
purchased based on a consumer's purchase of sleeping bags and hiking shoes.
Data mining consists of five majo
Why data werehouse used by Big bazaar

Data, Information, and Knowledge

Data
Data are any facts, numbers, or text that can be processed by a computer. Today, organizations
are accumulating vast and growing amounts of data in different formats and different databases.
This includes:
• operational or transactional data such as, sales, cost, inventory, payroll, and accounting
• nonoperational data, such as industry sales, forecast data, and macro economic data
• meta data - data about the data itself, such as logical database design or data dictionary
definitions
Information
The patterns, associations, or relationships among all this data can provide information. For
example, analysis of retail point of sale transaction data can yield information on which products
are selling and when.
Knowledge
Information can be converted into knowledge about historical patterns and future trends. For
example, summary information on retail supermarket sales can be analyzed in light of
promotional efforts to provide knowledge of consumer buying behavior. Thus, a manufacturer or
retailer could determine which items are most susceptible to promotional efforts.

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