Krasnobakovsky district consumers society (1C: Trade Management 8)

The Nizhny Novgorod branch of 1C-Rarus company automated shops, wholesale warehouses and the central office of Krasnobakovsky district consumers society based on industry solution "1C-Rarus: Shopping complex. Food products, edition 8" and the 1C: Trade Management 8 and 1C: Accounting 8 programs on the 1C:Enterprise 8 platform. In a project deliverable the management lowered costs of shops, optimized assortment and price policy. Control over work of retail chain stores is strengthened.

Trade – a primary branch of activity of Krasnobakovsky district consumers society. Number working in it – 282 persons. As a part of retail chain stores of Krasnobakovsky district consumers society – 11 food, 12 nonfood and 25 department stores, including 2 network shops "Sloboda" and 1 Ladya shop. The total area of trade enterprises – about 6,200 sq.m. The shops working in a self-service format – 21. The range is provided more than 10,000 product names.

The management of Krasnobakovsky district consumers society needed to optimize accounting of goods in shops, to increase controllability of outlets, to organize the centralized control of shops. For the solution of these tasks it was decided to create an information system on the 1C:Enterprise 8 platform.

Involved the Nizhny Novgorod branch of 1C-Rarus company which history of work includes many successful projects on automation of trade enterprises in project implementation.

4 shops became focal automation objects: 1 - home appliances, 3 grocery stores, wholesale warehouses and central office.

For creation of a common information space by specialists 1C-Rarus the following software was used:

• "1C-Rarus: Shopping complex. Food products, edition 8" - automation of retail stores and a wholesale warehouse;
• "1C: Accounting 8", "1C: Trade Management 8" and "1C-Rarus: Shopping complex. Food products, edition 8" - automation of the central office.

Between programs data exchange is configured.

During the project the main business processes of retail network are automated:

• Sales management;
• Management of warehouse stocks;
• Purchase management and range;
• Settlement with buyers and suppliers;
• Pricing;
• Monitoring and analysis of a trading activity of network;
• Analytical reporting.

Specialists 1C-Rarus developed the documents and reports allowing to obtain most precisely the data requested in a system regarding selling prices, purchase prices, processes of shipment of goods.

For optimization of work of an information system, data acquisition process simplification a system is integrated with a retail store equipment: printers of labels, fiscal registrars, scanners of the barcode and data collection terminals.

In shops exchange between cash desks and the program "1C-Rarus is configured: Shopping complex. Food products, edition 8". Process of unloading is provided by the following scheme: from the program the nomenclature and the prices at a prikhodovaniye of goods is automatically loaded into cash desk, and from cash desk at the end of the day data on sales in cuts of the sold nomenclature and sales amounts are unloaded.

In a project deliverable it was succeeded to achieve the following results:

• Reduce twice personnel labor costs by preparation and processing of the analytical reporting.
• Optimize a trade inventory in warehouses. Overstocking of warehouses was reduced by 20%.
• Avoid regrading. The percent of regrading is reduced up to 10%.
• Optimize work with more than 100 suppliers.
• Create the transparent logistic scheme which allowed to reduce costs twice.
• Provide control of timeliness and completeness of delivery of orders from suppliers.
• Optimize pricing policy at the expense of the centralized price fixation in shops.

According to Orlova Tatyana Arkadyevna, the chief accountant of Krasnobakovsky district consumer society: "We will organize the work using software products since 2008. For these 3 years we managed to achieve positive results in terms of increase in efficiency. System implementation allowed to bring order to accounting of goods in shops, to establish bidirectional coupling between the central office and shops and also between shops and warehouses. Automation helped us to review pricing mechanisms, to accelerate processes of shipment of goods to buyers, to optimize the relations with our suppliers. All this, certainly, increases loyalty of both those, and others to our retail chain stores. We are glad to continue cooperation with 1C-Rarus company.

Now the implemented systems are followed by forces of specialists of 1C-Rarus company. In process of an exit of new releases of the program are updated, new cuts of analytics are added.