NeuRMS, an integrator of software program and {hardware} options, has launched a neighborhood software program answer geared toward aiding the over 48 million Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Nigeria to retain overseas foreign money spent on buying foreign-developed retail administration purposes.
Nigeria spends greater than $300 million on the acquisition of overseas software program and laptop providers.
On the NeuRMS launch in Lagos, Lanre Olaniyan, CEO of NeuRMS, famous that many retail enterprise house owners use overseas software program packages to run their operations. He added that this presents a major problem provided that the greenback to naira alternate price is at the moment driving at N1,000 per greenback.
“SMEs in Nigeria commerce in Naira; they promote and purchase in Naira, however on the finish of the day, the purposes they’re utilizing to run their enterprise is being paid in foreign exchange. It doesn’t actually make sense,” Olaniyan mentioned.
At the same time as he revealed that almost all Nigerian retailers use as much as 45% of the capabilities of overseas purposes however pay for them, the CEO claimed that many worldwide software program options usually are not created for Nigerians.
There are not any center floor customers in most purposes; you’re both the proprietor or the cashier. For those who insist, for instance, that you simply want your supervisor to carry out sure duties, it’s essential to pay further for that, he continued.
These and different issues led NeuRMS to develop the NeuRMS software program utility, which was meticulously created with the distinctive traits of Africa’s totally different economies and societies, in accordance with Olaniyan.
“We checked out all these issues and we attempt to remedy them with an answer that’s contained in a single phrase NeuRMS. NeuRMS is an ordinary for contemporary retail administration. It’s a retail administration software program that helps SMEs carryout their enterprise in an efficient and seamless manner.
It provides visibility, in that it comes with an internet site presence, the place retailers can promote their merchandise.
“The app, helps retailers to handle their employees, together with their pay roll, planning their shift, planning their go away, their roasters and many others. It additionally has a POS system that displays what retailers are promoting. It is going to inform them when they should restock a product.
The app provides them perception into their enterprise every day. It makes retailers extra smarter. Every little thing retailers would wish to run their enterprise seamlessly is on NeuRMS. We additionally provide technical help 24 hours to resolve most technical points that may come up,” the CEO averred.