Corus Consulting automated inventory management of retail chain stores Basket

On June 24, 2019 the company "CORUS Consulting" reported that Ufa trade the network "Basket" was connected to to cloud service "KORUS ", intended for optimization warehouse of a remaining balance and forecasting of trade inventories. The solution will allow to the retailer to increase sales and efficiency inventory managements in all shops of network.

The management of Basket faced the serious growth of the competition in the local market connected with active expansion federal retail networks to regions – in 2015 in Bashkiria about 500 marketplaces were open. The network began to change the approach to sales, to review price policy and the range of the purchased goods. It allowed the company to find the competitive advantage and to become closer to buyers.

In the course of these conversions it became clear that the company needs also basic change of inventory management. Manual collecting and the analysis data did not allow to estimate quickly a condition of warehouse stocks and a remaining balance of products, to reveal problem zones and to eliminate them. As a result there was a replication of errors and growth of illiquid assets that slowed down profit increase. The company looked for industrial IT- the solution which helps to manage stocks large retail networks, however would not require big financial investments. cloud The solution "KORUS|Inventory management" which is intended for optimization of warehouse stocks and automation of supplier orders became it.

Connection of Basket to service allowed to reduce sharply quantity of manual work in management process: planning and order placement and deliveries and also calculation of stocks and limits are conducted in completely automatic mode. And the solution calculates orders both for each supermarket, and for all retail chain stores by suppliers and different types of goods, including those which have seasonal dynamics of demand. It allows Basket to align inventory condition in warehouses and to increase supply planning accuracy. Process of purchases became completely transparent and managed.

"Cloud solution "of KORUS: Inventory management" can process about 1000 orders a minute that covers requirements retail networks of any scale. At the same time the solution can be scaled without capital costs of IT infrastructure, so, at increase in number of orders or when opening new outlets it is enough to connect additional capacities in a cloud", noted Tatyana Moskvitina, the head "Inventory management", CORUS Consulting Group

"The abundance and availability of information led to the fact that the modern consumer became more exacting and more consciously selects goods from shops. In fight for the buyer retail networks are forced to approach more carefully management of supply and the analysis of sales to provide an uninterrupted and operational supply of products on shelves of shops. "KORUS: Inventory management" will help us to manage trade inventories and stock balance in real time – so, to beforehand make out purchase orders of products and to build the optimal system of vendor interaction", noted Anton the Ninth, the development director of Korzinka supermarket chain