G Suite Helping Retail Industry Win the Digital Race

By now you no longer need an introduction to G Suite. It is a cloud based collaborative and communication platform which connects businesses together in real time and also helps to increase the productivity and efficiency of any organization. Due to the current pandemic scenario most of the organizations are switching to cloud where the future is.

Now let us see how G Suite is revolutionizing the retail industry.

G Suite helps you to collaborate easily with your partner to reach the last mile customers very easily and quickly whether you are selling furniture, food, fashion items anything. It helps you to stay in touch with your wholesaler very easily. Now let us consider some important points which will give you a better understanding of the G Suite and its implementation in the retail industry.

1. Bring New Products to the Market faster through Tighter Collaboration and better Task Management.

You can share and collaborate on product designs, quality guidelines, mock ups and KPIS easily through Google Drive. You need to just upload your file on the drive and you can access it from anywhere on any device at ease. Your data will be stored in the cloud. 

Many employees can work on Google docs, sheets, slides which will help you to collaborate on a real time basis. Employees from different locations can work on the same sheet. Just give the share access to the concerned person and the work will be done very quickly. It will boost the productivity and efficiency not only of the employee but also of the organization. Most importantly you can use the Google Calendar to set up important reminders and also use it to invite others outside the organization as well as inside your organization. 

Moreover , you can use Google Meet to schedule meetings on the go and live video conferencing with your employees, suppliers, wholesalers and everyone.

2. Recruit, Interview and Onboard New Employees quickly and easily.

G Suite can help you to increase your revenue and the hiring process as well. Using G suite you can speed up the hiring process even during times of high employee turnover. Candidates can apply through Google forms for the positions the company is hiring. . Based on that the HR can schedule a meeting through Google Meet and take the interview accordingly. Virtual meetings have become the new normal now. Also you can use the Google forms to run campaigns on certain products and take feedback from the customers which will help in increasing the revenue of the company.

3. Manage your store or restaurant operations from anywhere using a laptop, tablet or smartphone or any device.

You can now store your product launch videos, marketing campaigns, store policies, promotions and everything in Google Drive and access them through Google sites. Promote your business.

by giving online training for multiple locations using Google Meet, record the meeting and make the video available on-demand. Also what you can do is create a self service training portal for employees for all locations and all shifts.

4. Securely create and manage new marketing material and digital brand assets with your partners.

Collaborate easily and securely with your partners, wholesalers, suppliers, external agencies, vendors by using Drive to sync shared content to the cloud in real time. Manage with your company logos, images across every retail channel and with your suppliers, vendors. Also you can create catalogs or publish lookbooks for the latest products launched and distribute them with your vendors, suppliers through mails or through Drive.  

5. Make it easy for employees to find everything important in one place.

Teams can use shared drive to store important documents like catalogues, product launch brochures and videos so that any employee can access it at any time without any hassle. Create Google groups for announcements for important projects or anything which needs to be done on an urgent basis. Also groups can be created on Hangout chats for a particular department which will help in communicating with your employees across all locations. Also easily search and find any information you need on the go across G Suite and other content with cloud search.