The Oloniya network reduced the missed sales by 27% with service "Korus: Inventory management"

2020: Connection of a cloud service of the autoorder "Korus: Inventory management"

Corus Consulting Group announced on September 1, 2020 automation of one of key business processes of Oloniya grocery chain, having connected a cloud service of the autoorder "Korus: Inventory management". Based on implementation on the first 30 shops of the company it was succeeded to reduce the missed sales by 27% that at once led to growth of revenue. For September 1, 2020 IT solution works more than in 100 shops of network.

The Karelian retail chain stores of Oloniya specialize in sale of perishable farmer products under own trademark. Planning of the order happened in shops of network in the semi-manual mode that led or to the missed sales connected with a lack of goods or to write-offs because of a surplus stock of perishable products. With opening of additional outlets and growth of business the company decided to review approach to order management and to optimize it. For this purpose as the IT partner CORUS Consulting Group was selected.

The IT company connected retail network to service for work with orders "KORUS Inventory management". Connection according to the SaaS model allowed to integrate as fast as possible a system with IT infrastructure of the company – less, than for a month of Oloniya started trial operation of the solution.

After implementation of the tool the company noted increase in accuracy of orders by 3 times and reduction of volume of the missed sales for 27%, and at connection of the first 30 shops it was succeeded to release up to 70% of working time of purchasers and to redistribute their functional tasks. Cloud infrastructure allowed to scale quickly the solution on all retail chain stores – more than 100 shops.

During the work with farmer products with short term of storage planning accuracy is critical. Building forecasts manually, we faced a lost profit and write-offs – so, financial losses. Automation of process helped us to build work so that we met demand of our clients, but at the same time did not incur a loss in the form of an unsold remaining balance. Such change allowed us not only to optimize costs, but also to improve quality of service for our buyers, – the development director of Oloniya network Vladimir Vladimirov notes.

In process of business growth retailers face a serious problem: inventory management manually becomes inefficient because of the errors arising when processing large volume of information. They are come to the rescue by programs for automatic formation of the order. Connection according to SaaS model allows to reduce the missed sales in the shortest possible time and to considerably reduce a role of a human factor. Such solutions can be implemented quickly, to develop easily and conveniently to service without hiring of additional IT specialists", – Aleksandra Moskalenko, the head "Inventory management" of CORUS Consulting Group comments