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Ceska lekarna Achieves a Permanent Increase in Profitability With Key Performance Indicators | 2008-05-01 | Oracle |
| Ceska lekarna wanted to enable central management of business activities with detailed sales analysis of the data that was previously stored in local database and manage inventory mix and levels. The challenge was to standardize product masters to facilitate sales analysis across all pharmacies and provide detailed information on costs and revenue across the entire network by integrating data from the sales and finance system. Ceska lekarna consolidated inventory, sales and purchasing, finance, and budgeting data in a central data warehouse as well as enabled distribution of key performance indicators to pharmacy managers so they can use benchmarking and proactively manage inventory and operations in comparison with other pharmacies in the network.
Tags: Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, Finance |
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Freightliner Controls Inventory "Choke Points" With Motorola RFID | 2008-04-01 | Motorola |
| Freightliner-Western Star Trucks is the leading heavy-duty truck manufacturer in North America. Like many modern manufacturers, Freightliner faces constant pressure to improve the efficiency and accuracy of its resource handling in order to better control manufacturing costs. The Freightliner management team, headed by Plant Automation Project Manager Louis Fleischer, was looking for a way to streamline the tracking of parts movement from inventory to the factory floor in the Portland plant. Once the study had defined Freightliner's process requirements, the business case for an RFID solution was easily established and solution development began. Compsee and System Concepts recommended an automated RFID solution.
Tags: Mobile - Wireless Communications, RFID |
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Multi-Branch, Multi-Lingual Local Dealership Unifying System for Leading | 2008-01-24 | MindTree Consulting |
| MindTree Consulting designed and implemented a system that connected the client's vast and disparate network of dealers to a centralized, automated information management system. The centralized system increased accessibility and availability of information, which improved the efficiency of day-to-day operations. The solution, designed for multiple languages, countries, currencies, and pricing parameters, was successfully deployed across multiple geographies. | |||
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Reduced Inventory and Marketing Costs for a Leading FMCG Company Using a Profitability Analysis Engine | 2008-01-24 | MindTree Consulting |
| India's largest FMCG company required an engine capable of effectively and efficiently ascertaining costs and profitability of each of its 75 brands information utilized by the client to make prudent investments on inventory and marketing. MindTree Consulting leveraged its expertise in implementing Business Intelligence solutions and its deep knowledge of the FMCG domain to build a collaborative solution with the capacity to precisely analyze the revenue generated by each brand and SKU within a matter of days.
Tags: Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, Sales - Marketing |
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34-Store Chain Grows 10 Percent Annually With the Help of a New Retail and Financial Solution | 2008-01-11 | Microsoft |
| Phyllis Heppenstall and daughter Kris founded Peekay, Inc. in 1980 as a direct-marketing company. They saw a market for adult products tastefully presented and sold. In six months, revenues had reached U.S.$500,000. Fiscal year 2007 ended with 31 stores and 20,000 daily transactions. As new marketing channels developed, a legacy Apropos point-of-sale and inventory management system proved difficult to modify. When Peekay's initial three-store network of Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System, installed by New West Technologies, demonstrated its worth in speed, ease, and flexibility, the comprehensive retail application was expanded chain-wide. Next, management chose Microsoft Dynamics GP to create an enterprisewide solution. Peekay and Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Tectura rethought and streamlined processes, clearing barriers so expansion can encompass several new stores a year.
Tags: Point of Sale Devices, Windows XP |
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Hundred-Store Cosmetics Chain Smoothly Applies New Retail System in USA and Canada | 2008-01-08 | Microsoft |
| When LUSH Fresh Handmade Cosmetics tallied the pain from two disparate POS systems and five databases covering a hundred stores in the United States and Canada, the mandate for system-wide conversion was clear. Corporate staff spent hours manually polling, normalizing, collating, and verifying store data. Month-end closings took weeks. Store managers had to know their system's quirks and update stock changes by hand. Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System offered a solution that could expand with the chain, yet flex as business demands evolved. Tri-City Retail Systems' experience installing and integrating this Microsoft solution into chain stores helped ensure fast, systematic rollout.
Tags: Windows XP |
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Innovative Retail Concept Integrates Three Microsoft Systems to Run Like a V-8 Engine | 2008-01-07 | Microsoft |
| Three business partners combined skills to create and implement a new retail concept: An exciting venue where customers select a model car chassis, accessorize it with parts, build it, get pictures taken for a "Drivers' license," competitively race their models, see their names in lights, and even combine several complex transactions on one credit card. Owners studied and rejected 20 software approaches, picking Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System (RMS) as the most flexible and customizable retail engine around which to assemble the many parts of their system. Three Certified Microsoft Partners - Merchants Solutions, Retail Information Technology Enterprises, and West Monroe Partners - combined specialties to co-develop a solution that helped Raceline open on time and below system budget.
Tags: Windows XP |
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Specialty Jewelry Chain Boosts Profits by Linking POS, Stock, Purchasing, Accounting | 2008-01-01 | Microsoft |
| Managing the details and intricacies of a multistate jewelry chain with Web sales had outpaced Christian Bernard Jewelers' aging and disjointed IT system. Executives couldn't rely on its sales numbers, stock levels, profit margins, or sales commissions before double-checking data. Support, once costly, was unavailable. After many evaluations, management chose Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System (RMS) and Microsoft Dynamics GP. MPI-Jeweler added niche-specific functionality. Today, the CEO has reliable information at near-realtime speeds. The CFO closes books in days, not weeks, and no longer works late doing verification. Sales staff don't call weekly to query paychecks. Perhaps, most important, purchasing is now based on exact knowledge of which products sell best at each store, so display cases are appropriately stocked and "Negative inventory" cannot occur.
Tags: Point of Sale Devices, Procurement - Purchasing |
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Darden Restaurants Cuts Operational Costs, Speeds Time-to-Market, With POS Solution | 2007-11-01 | Microsoft |
| Florida-based Darden Restaurants - owner and operator of Red Lobster, Olive Garden, and other popular casual-dining restaurants - wanted to replace an aging Point-of-Service (POS) system in its 1,400 restaurants with one that offered higher reliability, greater manageability, and faster deployment to new locations. That's what it has with a solution built on Microsoft technologies. With greater visibility into POS status, automated self-healing, and proactive on-site maintenance, Darden has almost eliminated the time needed to service POS devices, has cut the time to deploy devices to new restaurants by half, and is saving millions of dollars per year in POS-related maintenance and deployment costs. Best of all, according to one executive, IT at Darden is now a driver of the company's continued business success.
Tags: Windows XP |
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Gibson Overseas Serves Customers Better With Streamlined Order Fulfillment and Inventory System | 2007-09-05 | Oracle |
| Founded in 1979, Gibson designs, manufactures, and markets a wide range of products including dishes, flatware, pots and pans, and heat mitts. The company wanted legacy systems could not accommodate user growth, requiring temporary, patchwork systems and inventory system was inefficient and plagued by inaccuracies, making it difficult to find and ship products on time. The challenges were to customers increasingly demanded fully automated processes and legacy systems did not support EDI, requiring manual entry between systems. The company leveraged expertise of DAZ Systems to implement a broad solution footprint in less than five months and improved accuracy of inventory and bin tracking, dramatically increasing efficiency of order fulfillment. |