System and method for data acquisition, data warehousing, and providing business intelligence in a retail ecosystem

A system for providing business intelligence information relating to exchanges of goods in a retail ecosystem, the system comprising:

• a communications subsystem, operably connected with an electronic network, acquiring electronic data, through the electronic network, from a plurality of trading partners of the retail ecosystem, the electronic data relating to goods exchanged between the trading partners;
• a data warehousing subsystem transforming the electronic data to a normalized format and storing the transformed data in the normalized format in a plurality of structured databases stored on a computer-readable storage medium, wherein at least one structured database is associated with each trading partner;
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• a business intelligence tool, accessible to a given trading partner through an electronic network and displayable on an electronic display device, the business intelligence tool presenting at least a portion of the data from the at least one structured database associated with the given trading partner in a predetermined report structure.