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How The Body Shop Unified Omnichannel Retail Operations Across UAE and KSA with Juleb

Customer Overview The Body Shop is a global beauty and personal care retailer recognized for its ethically sourced skincare, body care, hair care, and fragrance products. With a strong retail presence across GCC, the company operates more than 100 branches across United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia markets powered by Juleb ERP, alongside the e-commerce platforms.

Operating across multiple sales channels requires seamless coordination between customer engagement, loyalty programs, inventory management, reporting, and financial operations. As customer expectations for personalized and consistent shopping experiences continued to grow, The Body Shop required a technology platform capable of supporting its omnichannel retail strategy while maintaining operational efficiency across both markets.

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Challenges

Before implementing Juleb, there was limited visibility which slowed decision-making, and constrained the ability to deliver a consistent omnichannel customer experience. And some operational limitations on sales reporting relied heavily on manual processes, requiring business teams to consolidate information from multiple systems before generating performance insights and increased dependence on IT teams for business intelligence and operational reporting.

Maintaining consistency between Online and physical stores experience also important as customer activity expands across online and offline channels. Customer profiles, loyalty points, stock, and transaction data needed to remain unified to provide customers with a seamless shopping experience regardless of where they chose to shop.

In addition, the existence of CRM aligned capabilities can enhance and enrich the company's growing customer engagement strategy. The Body Shop required country-specific loyalty programs, tier-based rewards, automated customer journeys, pending points management, and scalable loyalty capabilities across both UAE and Saudi Arabia. Replacing the legacy system environment while maintaining uninterrupted retail operations also presented a significant challenge. The migration required careful planning to preserve business continuity while modernizing the technology platform.

Why Juleb

The Body Shop requires an integrated retail platform capable of modernizing operations without disrupting existing business processes. Juleb was selected to replace the legacy POS environment while unifying sales, customer management, CRM, loyalty, reporting, business intelligence, and e-commerce operationswithin a single platform. Through seamless integrations with online ecommerce on Shopify, payment providers, and customer engagement systems, Juleb enabled a connected retail ecosystem that provides real-time visibility into business performance while supporting consistent customer experiences across every sales channel.

Solution Overview

Juleb manages the core modules for the retail of The Body Shop which are:

• Point of Sale (POS)

• Inventory Management

• Business Intelligence

Accounting and warehouse management integration with the warehouse ERP Customer Relationship Management (CRM) which has the rewards Management Systems, Loyalty and cashback management

Supporting of different Payment Methods include also the BNPL (Tabby, Tamara) And integration the payment terminals (Geidea, Alhamrani) E-commerce Integration (Shopify) Integrated compliance Services (Governmental & retail like ZATCA, E-invoicing, Planet Tax)

Together, these modules and integrations established a connected retail ecosystem across UAE and Saudi Arabia with unified customer experience.

Implementation

Juleb implemented an integrated retail platform across The Body Shop's UAE and KSA operations, connecting the systems that support day-to-day retail activities. A key component of the implementation was the integration between Juleb and Shopify, enabling automatic synchronization of products, customers, orders, and loyalty information between e-commerce and physical stores. This ensured customers receive a consistent shopping experience and maintained access to their loyalty benefits across every sales channel.

Juleb POSreplaced the legacy solution while maintaining uninterrupted business operations throughout the migration. Careful planning, phased deployment, and extensive testing ensured a smooth transition without disrupting store operations.

The implementation also introduced Business Intelligence dashboards and self-service reporting capabilities, providing business users with immediate access to operational and commercial insights without relying on IT teams to generate reports.

On the CRM side, Juleb redesigned the platform to support country-specific loyalty cards, tier-based loyalty programs, pending points, automated welcome journeys, and instant synchronization of new customer registrations across all channels. Extensive regression testing protected existing customer implementations while parallel delivery enabled multiple workstreams to progress simultaneously within tight project timelines.

To complete the omnichannel ecosystem, Juleb integrated with Tabby and Tamara, enabling Buy Now, Pay Later services across both physical stores and e-commerce and unify the loyalty points across sales channels.

Results at a Glance

Since implementing Juleb, The Body Shop has achieved:

Real-time visibility into sales performance through automated dashboards and reporting. Seamless synchronization of products, customers, loyalty, and order data between Shopify and physical stores.

Full synchronization of loyalty points across online and in-store channels.

768% growth in loyalty program enrollment between March and May 2026.

Processing of more than half a million POS receipts.

Generation of more than 600 business reports every day, enabling self-service access to business insights.

More than 183,000 report executions, demonstrating strong adoption of real-time reporting across the organization in 10 months (August – May) Approximately 2% improvement in Average Transaction Quantity (ATQ) following implementation while maintaining uninterrupted business operations. Elimination of routine reporting dependencies on IT teams. Faster operational and commercial decision-making. A consistent omnichannel customer experience across UAE and Saudi Arabia.

Customer Testimonial

"Juleb has been an efficient and flexible ERP to work with especially compared to our legacy ERP system. All the data we need on our customers and sales transactions are available for us to view and it's handy to be able to write SQL questions to create dashboards on the go ... The highlight of working with Juleb is definitely the customer support. I have always received the support I have required swiftly and fully. The team was always on standby to offer support in the moment whether through teams or email..."

Dana Mehyar CRM Manager The Body Shop UAE & KSA

Business Impact

Link By centralizing sales, customer management, CRM, loyalty, reporting, and business intelligence within a unified platform, The Body Shop has strengthened its ability to operate efficiently across multiple countries and sales channels.

The integration between Shopify, POS, CRM, payment providers, and reporting systems has created a connected retail ecosystem that delivers a consistent customer experience regardless of where purchases take place. Real-time reporting and self-service analytics have improved organizational agility by enabling business users to independently access the insights they need for both operational and strategic decision-making.

The successful migration from the legacy system to Juleb POS also demonstrated that large-scale retail transformation can be achieved without compromising business continuity. Throughout the implementation, stores continued operating seamlessly while customers experienced uninterrupted service across both physical and digital channels. These improvements have established a scalable technology foundation that supports continued growth, enhances customer engagement, and improves operational efficiency across the UAE and Saudi Arabia.

About the Solution

Juleb ERP provides an integrated platform that combines Point of Sale (POS), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Inventory and stock, Business Intelligence, Accounting, and other operational capabilities within a unified ecosystem.

Designed with a modular architecture, Juleb enables retailers to deploy individual modules independently or integrate them into a comprehensive platform that supports end-to-end retail operations. The solution provides real-time visibility across business functions, helping organizations streamline operations, improve inventory control, enhance customer engagement, and make faster, data-driven decisions.

To support uninterrupted retail operations, Juleb POS is designed to operate seamlessly in both online and offline environments, with automatic synchronization of transactional data once connectivity is restored, eliminating the need for manual intervention. For more information about Juleb's retail and ERP capabilities, visit:

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Looking Ahead

With a connected omnichannel retail ecosystem now in place, The Body Shop is well positioned to continue expanding customer engagement initiatives, enhancing loyalty programs, and supporting future growth across the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia while maintaining a consistent customer experience across every customer touchpoint.

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