Webinars

In this webinar we introduce CentralConnect, the integration that enables retail and hospitality businesses to use LS Central as their retail or point of sale solution, and seamlessly connect it to an enterprise ERP or head office platform. This means companies can get the best of both worlds, combining their preferred back-office system with the rich industry functionality that has made LS Central famous.

Join this webinar to understand

• What CentralConnect is
• How it works
• Benefits for retail and hospitality businesses
• General availability
  
  

Speakers: Dadi Karason, LS Retail CTO and Saevar Jonasson, Solution Architect

85% of customers will abandon a line if they have to wait more than five minutes. At the same time, retailers find it increasingly hard to find and retain employees.
Self-service and self-checkout technology can help retailers solve both challenges at once, at the same time saving money. It’s a win-win-win!

In this webinar, Sigurdur Ari Sigurjonsson, Business Development Director at LS Retail, shows you how you can use LS Retail solutions to offer self-service and self-checkout options to your customers:

- See how you offer both manned and self-service options using the same system and database
- Find out how you can add standard self-service options within both your retail and F&B operations
- Learn how you can add ScanPayGo to your operations

Presenters: Olafur Jonsson, Product Owner and Andri Fannar Freysson, Mobile Developer

Learn how you can make the entire physical shopping experience digital and completely contactless using LS Central’s ScanPayGo.

Key takeaways:

• Experience the new ScanPayGo solution and see how it's a part of the overall LS Central unified commerce experience.
• See ScanPayGo in action, from scan-to-pay with shopping lists and other exciting features
• Learn about ScanPayGo deployment options on customer-owned devices and retailer-owned devices
• Find out how you can brand the app with your logo and colors

Matthias Matthiasson goes over the latest innovations and capabilities in LS Central to help you confidently move to the cloud and unlock the insights needed to adapt faster, work smarter, and perform better, and how to create differentiated, contactless, insightful retail experiences for every customer.

Key takeaways:

• Get a complete overview of recent developments in LS Central
• What’s unified commerce and why it’s necessary to offer fantastic experiences online and in store
• How to offer contactless options like self-checkout, self-scanning, ScanPayGo and more
• How you can always be on latest technology and functionality with LS Central SaaS

Watch this webinar to discover how LS Central for hotels can help hotels and resorts put their guests at the center and take your hotel business into the future with outstanding hospitality, and most importantly, support a smooth guest journey.

Key takeaways:

• Discover how to achieve a 360-degree view of your guests
• Introduction to the main and latest functionality of LS Central for hotels
• Insights into how all sizes of hospitality businesses, from smaller B&B to larger resorts, can use LS Central for hotels
• Understand how LS Central solutions can support your business growing and expanding

Presenters:  

• Petur Thor Sigurdsson, Product Director LS Retail
• Brede Bjerke, VP Sales Dynamicweb
• Nicolai Gosvig, Pre Sales Consultant Dynamicweb

Watch this session to get to know the Dynamicweb platform and how it integrates to LS Central.  Learn where to position the Dynamicweb solution, how to embark on a project and see their strong suite of additional components and services - keeping you ahead of the competition.

Key takeaways:

• Introduction to Dynamicweb
• How Dynamicweb integrates to LS Central
• Live demo of the Dynamicweb solution 
• How to get started with Dynamicweb

Presenter: Martin Kleindl, Product Director

LS Retail has substantially improved and optimized the performance of the statement calculation and posting functionality in LS Central 17.4. Watch this session to learn about of these improvements and how you can save valuable time on your end-of-day processes. Also see results from our test lab and a customer environment.

Key takeaways: 

• Get an overview on end-of-day processes in LS Central
• Best practices to reduce Statement calculation time
• New features to reduce Statement posting time
• Learn about the new parallel Batch Posting
• LS Retail’s Consulting services for SQL Server audits and tuning

Presenter: Sigrun Marta Sigmarsdottir, Product Owner LS Express

If you want to sell (more) LS Express licenses, this webinar is for you.

Discover the business value of LS Express and find out how to spot the ideal customer for LS Express, and get ideas of how you can expand your customer portfolio.

Discover the business value of LS Express:

• How to spot the ideal customer for LS Express
• How you can expand your customer portfolio
• How to spot opportunities and laser-focus on the ideal target group for LS Express
• Which kind of retailer would benefit most from LS Express
• How LS Express can help your customers overcome the challenges of a post-Covid world

Watch executives from Color Line, Incisiv, Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions and LS Retail in this video webinar as they outline strategies for retailers to:

• Leverage technology to create a unified experience for their customers.
• Make sales associates more agile with better real-time data and intuitive solutions that require little to no training.
• Align operational processes and merchandising techniques that augment and enrich the brand promise.

Panelists:
Marianne Gade Gørbitz, CIO, Color Line
Carsten Wulff, VP, LS Retail Europe
Robin Lyon, Director - ISV Relations, Europe - Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions

Moderator:
Gaurav Pant, Chief Insights Officer, Incisiv

Presenters:  

• Waddah Laham, LS Retail VP,
• Affan Al Khoori and Manoj Vijayan from aswaaq

Grocery and supermarket organizations have been among the few winners during the difficult times of the Covid-19 crisis. To keep up with fast-changing government regulations and consumer expectations, they have had to transform their business models, quickly.

Watch this webinar to learn how aswaaq in the UAE has addressed the challenges of this new reality.

Presenters:  

• Hana Sediva, Senior Sales Executive, LS Retail
• Gabrielle Hase, Board Memeber at LS Retail partner, and CEO Soleberry Advisory
  
  

COVID-19 has made many of our retail business models irrelevant.  There is however a silver lining in the opportunity for retail leaders to paint in broad strokes and make the change that needs to happen in every single part of their business.  Although this session is focused specifically on the UK market, retailers around the globe need to address their post-COVID business success.

Presenter:  Martin Kleindl, Product Director, LS Retail

LS Retail’s Intelligent Cloud Solutions is a family of products, which extend LS Central to bring your data to meaningful insights or actions. Today, this includes LS Insight, our data warehouse and BI solution, LS Recommend, our basket analysis and recommendation tool and LS Forecast for advanced sales demand forecasting. Join this session for a walk-through of these products and learn about our mid-term vision and plans.

Key takeaways:

• Get an overview of LS Intelligent Cloud solutions
• Advanced Reporting with our free of charge LS Insight product
• Key benefits of using advanced sales forecasting and basket analysis

Presenter:  Arnthor Magnusson, Software Developer

Go Current simplifies and speeds up the rollout of new stores, and lets you easily keep them up to date with your customizations.
Follow our experts in a step-by-step demonstration of how to get started with Go Current and LS Central, and understand how Go Current can simplify your work from system implementation through maintenance and upgrades. 

Some of the of the webinar topics:

• Discover how to simplify deployments and upgrades of LS Central  
• Get the knowledge you need to start using Go Current

Presenter: Olafur Jonsson, Product Owner and Andri Fannar Freysson, Developer

With unified commerce, retailers moved from siloed information to unified channels. In this new world, is there any space for the LS Retail mobile apps as we have known them, and what is LS Retail’s strategy for them? 

Join this webinar to get an answers and to discover the power of the LS Central mobile inventory app and of ScanPayGo, our mobile self-checkout solution. Learn the differences between the LS Central mobile POS app and running the LS Central POS on a mobile device.

Some of the of the webinar topics:

• Get an overview of LS Retail strategy on mobile solutions 
• Learn about the functionality of the LS Central mobile inventory app  
• Get a glimpse of the future with ScanPayGo, a mobile self-checkout solution

Presenter: Petur Thor Sigurdsson, Product Director

The world of payments is constantly evolving, with merchants often struggling to keep up with the demands of the modern consumer. Join this session to learn about LS Pay, where we enable global payment support right out of the box, whether that’s just for your Point of Sale or in a true omni-channel manner, providing a seamless payment experience across your channels.

Some of the of the webinar topics:

• Introduction to LS Pay
• Supported geographies and Payment Service Providers – Current situation and roadmap 
• Omni-channel payments: seamlessly support online and in-store payments

Presenter: Bjarni Asmundsson, Regional Director

This webinar reviews potential solution architecture of LS Central installations (On-Premise/Azure, Hybrid, or Cloud), general housekeeping and must-do’s and don’ts. The main focus will be on On-Premise/Azure setups, but we will touch base on Hybrid and Cloud setups as well.  
It is fundamental that the solution is running on appropriate hardware and both database- and service tiers are configured to support the clients' needs.  

Some of the of the webinar topics:

• Get basic overview on the existing solution architecture and environment of LS Central installations
• Get general housekeeping rules, things that should and should not be done

Presenter: Jasvinder Singh, Technical Consultant

In this webinar, we will show how the LS Mobile Inventory app and LS Central Store Inventory compliments each other to ensure inventory processes are a breeze.
See how the Inventory management in LS Central along with LS Mobile Inventory can help you control and maintain your inventory in a productive manner. Better understanding of the LS Mobile Inventory matrix in order to know which suits best for your LS Central.   

Some of the of the webinar topics:

• Get an overview of the various functionality options available
• Get an overview of the various inventory processes and configurations
• Store Inventory vs InStore Management
• Walkthrough of LS Mobile Inventory configuration and related inventory processes

Presenter: Bjarni Asmundsson, Regional Director

This webinar reviews customer related functionality within LS Retail solutions covering different modules in LS Central, LS Insight and Loyalty/eCommerce using Magento.  We demonstrate and review functionality that is available in our solutions.
We track usage from new loyalty member sign ups, to different transactions on POS and/or eCommerce, to data review in LS Insight and how we can use that back in LS Central for example Campaign Management – in this process our Member Management is at the center in all channels.

Some of the of the webinar topics:

• Get an overview of LS solutions that strengthen customer loyalty and engagement
• Understanding the benefits of Unified Commerce solution like LS Central

Presenter: Martin Kleindl, Product Director

Would you like to be able to optimize stock in your stores and warehouses in the easiest, most accurate way possible? Join this session for a walkthrough of our brand-new advanced sales forecasting solution LS Forecast. Discover our innovative SaaS solution, built on Microsoft’s Cortana Intelligence Suite and fully integrated to LS Central. 

Some of the of the webinar topics:

• Get an overview of LS Forecast functionality
• Key benefits of using advanced sales forecasting
• Comparison between traditional calculation methods and LS Forecast
• Learn how to easily implement LS Forecast  

Presenter: Kerim Karan, Functional consultant

In this webinar you learn about the different functionalities of the Replenishment module within LS Central. The goal is to give participants a basic understanding of LS Replenishment, what it is, and its main features, as part of the LS Central retail solution.  Explaining how easy it is to use, that you can use it for all or part of your assortment.  How efficient it is for repeated fulfillments and good tool for avoiding out of stock days or overstocking expensive items.  It uses your historical data and periodical sales trends to adjust procurement suggestions.

For larger installations in can even be scaled out for increased performance.

Some of the of the webinar topics:

• Get an overview of LS Central Replenishment
• Get a view of the different functionalities and setups in LS Replenishment
• Core concepts of LS Central Replenishment and basic understanding

Presenter: Matthias Matthiasson, LS Central Product Director

How does the LS Central POS work in the cloud? What do you need to run an offline POS and keep it automatically up-to-date within a cloud solution? How can you and your customers benefit from our cloud offering? Get an answer to these questions (and more) during this  presentation.   

Some of the of the webinar topics:

• Overview of LS Central POS in the cloud, its technical components and architecture
• Clear understanding of the licensing and purchasing process
• Technical and practical matters regarding LS Central POS in the cloud, SaaS and hybrid

Presenter: Olafur Jonsson, Product Owner

Get an introduction to the assisted setup and implementation processes in LS Central. Watch this session to discover how the LS Central Implementation Guidelines methodology can help you understand the basics and processes of LS Central, and how it will help you speed up implementation time, reduce risk, and ensure project success. During this session you will also learn how you can use Go Current to create your own services, to simplify customer upgrades. 

Some of the of the webinar topics:

• Get an overview of LS Central POS and Hardware Station
• Get a view of the different setup options of the POS on all devices
• Understand how to connect the LS Central POS to retail devices   

Presenter: Gudrun Olafsdottir, Product Director and Development Manager

Get an introduction to the assisted setup and implementation processes in LS Central. Watch this session to discover how the LS Central Implementation Guidelines methodology can help you understand the basics and processes of LS Central, and how it will help you speed up implementation time, reduce risk, and ensure project success. During this session you will also learn how you can use Go Current to create your own services, to simplify customer upgrades. 

Some of the of the webinar topics:

• Discover how you can simplify deployment and upgrades of LS Central
• Get a clear understanding of LS Central Implementation Guidelines and Go Current 

Presenters: Stefan Georgsson and Henrik Thordarson

With LS Central for pharmacy, modern pharmacies get a holistic solution for both their prescriptions and retail needs. Check out this webinar to get  a demo of the solution and for a demonstration of how it is localized using the LEGO™ brick methodology.​

Some of the of the webinar topics:

• Country-specific integrations​
• LEGO™ methodology​
• Demo of prescription handling

Presenters: Kristinn Thor Sigurjonsson, Jonheidur Isleifsdottir and Jon Halldor Unnarsson from the LS Insight team.

Watch this webinar to discover what new functionality we have introduced in our data analytics solution LS Insight, and learn how it can help you determine where your business is heading, and what you need to do to differentiate yourself from everybody else.

Some of the of the webinar topics:

• How to get started with LS Insight 
• Discover how to use LS Insight to get deep knowledge of your data
• Understand LS Insight’s architecture and how it integrates with existing technology

Presenter: Petur Thor Sigurdsson, Product Director
Check out the below links to get an answer to the following questions and many more: How does LS eCommerce work?  What does it look like on the Magento platform? How to get started?

Some of the of the webinar topics:

• End-to-end demo of all the main processes of LS eCommerce 
• See how to merge online and in-store 
• How to get started: Establish a local test environment
• Learn about our new LS eCommerce license promotion

Presenter: Petur Thor Sigurdsson, Product Director
Check out the below links to to learn how LS Retail is enabling eCommerce in a truly unified commerce manner.

Some of the of the webinar topics:

• How LS Central helps you follow the modern customer journey – merging one and in-store (discovery, purchase and returns) 
• Supported eCommerce platforms and 3rd party options on LS Central:  Magento, Dynamicweb, Avensia & Shopify 
• Learn about our new LS eCommerce license promotion