The Aniks trading house implements the project of automation of a retail

The APM-Technology company conducts an implementation project in retail network of Aniks Trading House of a management system for trade – Oracle Retail, the press service of the company reported on October 17, 2012.

Start

At the end of 2011 the management of ANIKS Trading House made the decision on transition to the new automated control system for the enterprise which became the solution based on a modern management system for trade – Oracle Retail. Execution of the project was entrusted to APM-Technology company.

Project objective - creation of an end-to-end system of automated management of retail network and ensuring coherence of different processes of accounting and management at the enterprise.

The developed plan of implementation assumes transition to new software without "Big Bang" and in the minimum terms. Project works began in March, 2012.

Solution

Development of business processes and automation of the following management processes is a part of the project:

• operational accounting
• inventory control
• financial accounting and management
• budgeting and planning
• assortment management, orders, deliveries (replenishment process), settlement
• cash management (operational)
• optimization and demand forecasting planning and production management.

Data management with processes will be provided by the following software applications:

• Oracle Retail Suite.Financials и Retail Suite. Warehouse Retail Suite.ShelfSpace
• Retail Demand Forecasting
• RS.RecipeManagement
• Integration Suite.OR is an integration packet based on ESB jBoss EE.

TD "Aniks" will implement the newest system of optimization and demand forecasting of Retail Demand Forecasting (one of blocks of an optimization packet of RPAS from Oracle).

RDF has following features:

• Creation of forecasts at the level goods/shop/day
• Automatic forecasting taking into account promotion actions
• The scalable automated models
• Management of forecasts due to dynamic aggregation and distribution of data
• Interactive modeling

It will give the chance to get the following advantages:

• More exact forecasts
• Increase in level of service, decrease in lack of stocks
• Decrease in the inventory level
• Reduction of number of manual transactions

In course of execution of the project is planned to automate also production blocks. With respect thereto in a single batch the RS.RecipeManagement system (planning and production management) will be used.

Implementation TD "Aniks" will organize:

• The IT infrastructure directed to maintenance of growth strategy of the company and based on step-by-step implementation of the best world practices of management in retail
• controllability, accuracy and scalability of a management system, on a basis application of modern software tools and technologies
• coherence of different processes of accounting and management at the enterprise