"The Moscow House of Books" completed SAP implementation

On May 5, 2014 it became known of the project executed by SAP CIS company for "The Moscow House of Books" - the Russia's first analytical system on the SAP BW On Sybase platform is created.

Project Progress

For creation of a single system of management of business indicators of the customer solutions SAP BW 7.3, SAP Sybase ASE 15.x, SAP Dashboards are selected SAP Businessobjects 4.1, their implementation was carried out at the same time, with the assistance of specialists of SAP Consulting. Within half a year — from January to June, 2013 — a system was designed, tested and put into operation.

One of factors of success of the project - the profound knowledge of the Sybase platform shown by an IT command of "The Moscow House of Books". Examination of Vadim Safonov, the deputy CEO for IT, and Ivan Yumashev, the head on IT, helped all team in the shortest possible time to achieve results. At the moment in the system of SAP 30 users – the staff of the central office and branches of "The Moscow House of Books" work.

Project Results

"The Moscow House of Books" - the only state book network in Russia, has opportunities for improvement of the processes connected with the analysis and sales planning, increase in efficiency of outlets, receiving a complete picture of a status of sales, etc. Key performance indicators of sales, detailed and aggregated data, including, calculation of average values for checks (to 1 million goods items a month), a commodity remaining balance are available to the management of network in a foreground mode (up to 1.2 million positions). Time of processing of an analytical request is, on average, from two to five seconds.

"The system of SAP provides that level of efficiency and flexibility of management which is necessary taking into account scales of our network, its importance in the book market, popularity of a brand, specifics of the book-selling market. Thanks to SAP BW On Sybase all network functioning now — as the open book" — Nadezhda Mikhaylova, the CEO noted SUE Joint Center Moskovsky dom knigi.

"The book market considerably changed in recent years: in the conditions of the changing demand deeper analytics is necessary for retailers for support of operational solutions on planning and assortment management. For "The Moscow House of Books" the SAP solution BW On Sybase became a basis for the new approach to sales allowing to increase their efficiency and to actually change a landscape of book retail in Russia" — Roman Ganrio (Zhuravlev), the director of consulting and training of SAP CIS emphasized.