FINANCIAL SERVICES

Financial Services products are centered largely on payment processing for Sears, Kmart, Home Services, and Online channels. Real-time payment authorization, refund management, settlement, and reconciliation are some of core functionalities offered by these products. The authorization system processes real-time payment requests for Credit, Debit, and Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT), Sears Gift Cards, third-party Gift Cards, and associate discounts. Other important solutions include Sears Rapid Credit, layaway, lease applications, account number lookup, ID validation, and long term storing of customer receipts in a secure way. While some of the products are vendor managed solutions, others are custom built using open source technologies, cloud-based services and mainframe platform. The division continuously engineers these systems to keep them secure, robust, and pertinent to changing business needs.

MARKETING, PRICING, & SIGNAGE

The Marketing, Pricing, and Signage division provides technology solutions that enable creation, planning, and management of multi-channel promotional offers supported by optimized, accurate, and consistent prices derived from advanced algorithms and transmission of these offers to stores in digital and paper format signage to increase brand value, enhance perceived value, create interest, and engage members. The group serves delivery of data to Kmart.com, Sears.com, and Kmart, Full-Line and Hometown format of physical stores.
The Item/Vendor Management Services division responsible for the Product Master, enhances, maintains, and supports over 20 applications for managing items and vendors for Sears/Kmart stores and online business. This covers a wide range of services/applications including item build/manage platform, online content handling, asset management, integration services, vendor relation management services (including onboarding and legal aspects of the vendor associations) along with the various other B2B services.

WAREHOUSE MANAGEMENT

The Warehouse Management division offers a wide range of technology solutions in diversified areas for B2B and B2C platforms. These solutions a) Enable warehouses to process vendor shipments, fulfil orders, and transfer items to other warehouses; b) Integrate legacy and new age ordering and fulfilment systems within the organization and third party partners; c) Provide supply chain business with a single access point in the form of user interface portal for order management and tracking; d) Enable home delivery business to update item prices via user interface portal.

SUPPLY CHAIN AND LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT

The Supply Chain & Logistics Management division is responsible for managing a broad range of applications for Inventory Management, Assortment & Allocation, Transportation & Logistics, and Demand Forecasting Services. It continues to improve application performance across the SCM lifecycle and, thus, enhance member experience through a mix of latest and traditional technology, from Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform to a strong footprint of ‘Big Data’ technologies including Hadoop, Python, GCP, and Airflow.

TELECOM EXPENSE MANAGEMENT

The Telecom Expense Management division is responsible for managing all telecom expense related services (invoice management, call accounting, asset management, reporting services, vendor set-up, account set-up, product set-up, cost center set-up, GL code set-up, and dispute management) for Transformco. The division provides services for all Telecom services types, which include local, conferencing, toll free, VOIP, data services, long distance, managed services, broadband, and wireless services. The team reviews all invoices to ensure they are accurately processed and the payments are made to the vendors on time. The team is also required to determine and disconnect services that are no longer required to ensure the company is not paying for services which are not being utilized, thereby saving costs.

ECOMMERCE & MARKETPLACE OPERATIONS

As technology partners to the Online division of the parent company, this division is at the forefront of providing application framework and infrastructure to power ecommerce & mobility solutions that provide Transformco members a rewarding and seamless multi-channel shopping experience. Whether members shop from their desktops, tablets, and mobile devices or use Transformco’s Android/iOS native applications, they will see an easy-to-use, fast, and engaging user interface. The division has enabled several cutting-edge fulfillment flows in the omni-channel retail industry to help customers get a large assortment of products in a cost-effective and timely manner. The Business Operations support teams continuously strive to streamline operational processes and provide round-the-clock monitoring support to ensure high availability of applications and services. The Marketplace & Business Operations teams provide critical business operations, finance & accounting support, which are core to business.

INVENTORY MANAGEMENT

The Inventory Management division takes care of end-to-end replenishment for Kmart and Sears stores across the US. It is responsible for ordering, demand planning, and maintaining optimum stock levels at all times. The Item Setup team is responsible for setting up items while the Global Sourcing team ensures that the orders are processed on time for timely delivery. The Buying team will liaise with suppliers to negotiate and secure value for money on a full range of goods and services, and build effective stakeholder relationships, ensuring a high service level in terms of quotations, quality compliance, and lead times. The Analytics team works on analyzing the sales trend data and root causes for low stock levels in stores, which enables crucial business decisions. Moreover, there is a dedicated Robotic Process Automation team that works on simplifying the processes for optimum productivity.

HOME SERVICES

The Home Services division delivers state-of-the-art technology solutions on 40+ B2B/B2C platforms and serves over 4 million homes per year (~850,000 5-star ratings on average). These platforms enable a broad range of retail-related residential and commercial services – from home improvement, home cleaning, home appliance purchase, warranty, and repair – across all 50 states of the US, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands. The division constantly endeavors to make the platform and application robust, flexible, and scalable for a better customer experience. The entire system is enhanced, maintained, and supported by over 150 highly experienced IT professionals, who are looking to introduce more automation to enhance efficiency and customer experience through better UI/UX. The division is also working on automating their testing and release management to achieve application modernization, reduce technical debts by moving towards more manageable code, and increasingly leverage AWS services.