585 Gold automates business based on SAP for Retail

Retail network selling precious jewelry "585 Gold" and CIBER company started since the beginning of 2012 an implementation project of an enterprise management system based on SAP for Retail and SAP CRM.

This project is the first SAP implementation of for Retail for automation of large jewelry Russian retail network. In a project deliverable process automation of retail, production and lombard activity, from purchase planning before final sales, control automation by loyalty of buyers and also managerial accounting and financial accounting based on the IFRS and RAS standards will be implemented. As a result, there will be an increase in controllability of business, and the company will be able seriously to increase the number of outlets without significant increase in costs for maintenance of business processes and also to increase customer service quality. The project is going to be implemented during 2012.

Initially 585 Gold used such programs as 1C and Navision (Microsoft Dynamics NAV). According to information from retail network "585 Gold", the decision on the choice of the new software product for business process automation of the company was caused by what the functionality of these programs did not satisfy to all requirements of retail network, besides, there were serious difficulties with integration of information systems. Data on clients were separated and did not allow to perform a marketing activity systemically. Growth of retail network was limited because of technology problems with IT infrastructure. Besides, when choosing a new solution it was necessary to consider sales opportunities of the features of trade in it jewelry and lombard activity consisting in accounting of gold and subtleties of storage of precious and semiprecious metals, transactions with pledges, loans, the credits, processes of biddings and buying up.

Having carried out the analysis of information systems of SAP, Oracle and Microsoft Axapta, 585 Gold stopped the choice on products of SAP company, the world leader in the field of business applications. The functionality of SAP for Retail and SAP CRM most fully meets requirements of the company. For achievement of complete confidence in a project success the management "585" entrusted SAP implementation to specialists of CIBER, the world leader in SAP implementation of for Retail.

"We selected SAP in connection with the functional saturation of its products. SAP for Retail as much as possible covers requirements of our network, and SAP CRM will allow to build the loyalty program effectively, - Vladimir Gorichev, the project manager from outside 585 Gold tells. - Experience of the partner in implementation and numerous positive reviews about CIBER Russia completely convinced us that all project objectives will be executed, and we will receive the reliable and scalable tool for enterprise management".

"The CIBER company not for the first time acts as the pioneer in the field of implementation of different funktsionalnost of SAP for retail networks. In a jewelry segment of the retail market the project of automation of the 585 trading company is the first implementation project of SAP for Retail. We are glad to act as the partner in implementation and are sure that we will meet and we will exceed customer expectations", - Niznik Alexander, the CEO of CIBER says.