With an ever growing middle class, rapid urbanization and proliferation of internet, the past few years have witnessed the Indian retail industry moving along an upward growth trajectory. Keeping up with global trends, organized retailing has become a business necessity in today’s highly demanding market environment. The trend has transcended the metro cities and has reached tier 2 and 3 cities, making it tougher for retailers to maintain quality and uniformity across geographies. Pro-TEAM Solutions, a Bangalore based management consulting organization has built its capabilities in rendering audit services to retails across the country, irrespective of the location.

“Usually showrooms and shops are spread widely across tier 1 & 2 cities and we are required to cover all the audits irrespective of the location. This calls for our resources to be available locally at these cities,” explains Jayaram DR, Founder & CEO, Pro-TEAM. To counter the same, the company has built a geographically diverse local team and uses them for audits that happen around their base locations. With employees located at more

than 25 cities across the country, Pro-TEAM has penetrated through deep pockets PAN India. Founded in 2014, the 550 people strong organization possesses the capability to perform any audit that requires up to 50-100 members per day.

Pro-TEAM’s well distributed retail team is adept at rendering a wide range of services pertaining to inventory, assets and compliance

All-encompassing Robust Retail Services
Pro-TEAM’s well distributed retail team is adept at rendering a wide range of services pertaining to inventory, assets and compliance. Aimed at increasing productivity and removing inefficiencies, the company holds expertise in showroom audit, compliance audit, fixed asset audit and warehouse audit. Armed with a well-established audit process, the company has built a customized software tool to increase audit effectiveness.

Pro-TEAM consultants also look after verification of return stock before it is dispatched to warehouse; audit of dispatches at warehouse and inward verification. With a vision to build an all comprehensive retail service roster, the company also provides large format audit supervision along with verification of destruction of expired stock. Additionally, the firm also

helps client with reconciliation of franchise, vendor and others, and manpower support. Pro-TEAM brings immense flexibility to the process and can manage audits across all time frames.

Leveraging Technology to be Future Ready
Owing to its quality and robust roster of retail centric services, Pro-TEAM has carved an enviable position for itself in the industry within a short span of time. Having recognized the technological renaissance that the entire ecosystem is going though, the company intends to use technology as an enabler. “We have been working on designing tools and system to increase productivity and reduce errors,” says Jayaram. For an instance, the company has developed an auto validating software to ensure that the correct barcode is read. Pro-TEAM has also developed an automated reporting software that tracks the closure of audit findings.

Unlike other service providers in the industry, Pro-TEAM makes use of the latest scanning devices. The forward looking firm is working towards automating audit scheduling and reporting processes. “This would help us save substantial time in completing the reports and will also provide us with analytical data for our customers to get various reports online,” Jayaram adds. Having worked with industry stalwarts such as M&S, Arvind, Madura, Titan, Bata, Addidas, Pantaloons, forever21, Max, Puma and Relaxo, Pro-TEAM is now striving towards becoming the most preferred service for retail segment across India.