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HP rp5700 Point of Sale System Streamlines Operations | 2009-03-01 | Hewlett-Packard (HP) |
| In an industry largely taken over by giant chain stores, Fraese Drug and Soda Fountain has thrived independently in downtown Hutchinson, Kan., since 1939. Fraese Drug and Soda Fountain wanted to streamline, speed transactions to improve customer service and eliminate billing errors. The company deployed HP rp5700 Point of Sale system with the Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System and the Nova Libra software interface to the Speed Script Pharmacy Management System.
Tags: Enterprise Planning, Wholesale - Retail |
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Chinatex Corporation Achieves Unified Management of 20 Subsidiaries | 2009-03-01 | Oracle |
| Founded in 1951, Chinatex Corporation is a state-owned enterprise engaged in the trade, production, and research and development of raw materials for the textile and agricultural industries. The company needed an IT system to manage this growth and meet strategic goals while minimizing risk. In 2007, Chinatex engaged Oracle Certified Advantage Partner HAND Enterprise Solutions to deploy Oracle E-Business Suite. Today, 20 Chinatex subsidiaries use the Oracle platform to manage finance, inventory, manufacturing, and distribution processes.
Tags: Wholesale - Retail |
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Microsoft Dynamics NAV Test Drive | 2009-02-05 | Microsoft |
Microsoft Dynamics® NAV is a line of customizable business management solutions that automates and streamlines financial, customer relationship, and supply chain processes. Microsoft Dynamics NAV offers growing businesses a powerful yet cost-effective solution that can be tailored for your company. It can support customization and add-in software to meet industry or other specific needs. In addition, it can adapt as a growing business needs more power and functionality. Microsoft Dynamics NAV:
Microsoft Dynamics provides powerful software that helps organizations drive down costs, improve operations, retain and build customer relationships and continue to innovate in challenging economic times. Tags: Wholesale - Retail, Customer Management, Enterprise Planning, Data Tools, Customer Management |
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Dalekovod d.d. Achieves Procurement Savings of More Than 20% | 2009-02-01 | Oracle |
| Dalekovod d.d. wanted to find standardized software solution with construction industry functionality to aid regional and global expansion and reduce risk of losing application support for antiquated legacy applications which rely on increasingly hard-to-find expertise. The challenge was to replace existing software, which did not allow for precise control and oversight of supply chain management processes and harmonize financial modules to local business culture standards and practices. Dalekovod d.d. worked with Oracle Consulting to introduce global best practices and enable better control of project management, using logistics modules such as Oracle Order Management, Inventory Management, and Purchasing as well as achieved procurement savings of more than 20% by gaining comprehensive control over SCM processes.
Tags: Business Functions, Enterprise Planning |
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Reduces Stock Distribution Time by 80% | 2009-02-01 | Oracle |
| The Ministry of Foreign Affairs wanted to achieve 24-hour-a-day stock level visibility at the ministry's warehouse, which stores stationery, furniture, and electronics and improve stock control and rapid ordering of new stock. The challenge was to ensure optimum use of the ministry's fixed government budget and deploy a financial management system that manages at least 10 currencies supporting the ministry's international mission. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs consolidated data stores from six departments, including finance, planning, stock information, and HR into one database to enable greater visibility and more accurate data and reduced the time required to distribute stock by 80%, using Oracle Warehouse Management to achieve insight into stock availability and location of items.
Tags: Wholesale - Retail, Business Functions |
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Elliott Reduces Annual Job-Costing Expenses by US$1 Million and Improves Inventory Management | 2009-02-01 | Oracle |
| Elliott wanted to replace aging legacy, text-based enterprise resource planning solution with Web-based, fully-integrated solution able to automate job costing and enable efficient workflow processes to improve collaboration between Elliott Company and its suppliers. The challenge was to ensure continued global competitiveness as the export market represents 70% of the company's business. Elliott deployed Oracle E-Business Suite to determine job costs in minutes - ultimately saving the company more than US$1million in annual staff costs related to this function as well as decreased monthly financial close cycle from two weeks to two days with integrated and automated financial processes.
Tags: Wholesale - Retail |
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Targeted Marketing Campaigns Result in e-Commerce Sales Spikes of Up to 500% for $450 Million Tommy Bahama | 2009-01-28 | Epicor Software |
| Tommy Bahama has 82 retail locations that offer upscale men's and women's apparel, accessories and gifts, as well as home furnishings. Tommy Bahama barely used its CRM (customer relationship management) module or the data it generated for six years. The advent of its e-commerce platform required the retailer to use CRM. The CRM system in place at the time had to be replaced with a new, updated model for the retailer to realize increased sales. The retailer chose Epicor's CRM offering. It enables centralized integration with the retailer's POS system, and it captures real-time customer data.
Tags: Wholesale - Retail, Business Functions |
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Escaping PCI purgatory. Compliance roadblocks and stories of real-world successes | 2009-01-21 | IBM |
| By now, any companies driving high volumes of credit card transactions that are not compliant with the payment card industry (PCI) data security standards (DSS) faces steep penalties. This white paper deals with the PCI DSS compliance challenges organisations face and the 4 phases to meeting PCI DSS requirements
Tags: Financial Services, Wholesale - Retail, Data Infrastructure, Wholesale - Retail |
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Three Steps to Increasing Profit in the Economic Downturn With Help From a Warehouse Management System | 2009-01-14 | |
| Businesses across many industries are focused on maintaining and increasing profitability in times of modest revenue. The typical response is to stop all process improvement and technology projects and concede that "one just can't afford it now." This line of thinking is a trap. The best time to focus on customer satisfaction, process improvement and perfect order performance is when business conditions require strong profitability. Perfect order performance is tightly tied to profitability metrics. Improvements in order performance - percentage of orders fulfilled on time, complete, and of the highest quality - yield financial improvements in return on assets and operating margin. The best way to achieve desired levels of profitability is through strong supply chain processes supported by flexible technology.
Tags: Customer Management |
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Google In-Game Advertising | 2009-01-01 | |
| Playfish is one of the world's largest and fastest growing social games companies. The company combines creativity, innovation and originality to create games for friends to play together over social platforms such as Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Yahoo!, iPhone and iPod Touch. Playfish's audience is casual gamers on social networks who are looking for fun entertainment and who spend an average of 35 minutes per day playing games, generating more than 1 billion minutes of engagement every month. Playfish deployed Google AdSense that enabled easy access to standardized media inventory means. It also let Playfish to address advertisers' needs in international territories from day one.
Tags: Wholesale - Retail |
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