"Line" continues development of the project of automation of retail chain stores

The third hypermarket of Bryansk opened here on October 17, 2009. As well as all other shops, manage it on a centralized basis from the main office of retail chain stores[1]"Line" in Kursk. The basis of complex IT solution for network management Line is formed by the information systems developed in FIT company and completely integrated, including a management system for merchandising of GESTORI Pro, uniform for all network, and the cash system "POS-FIT-K" Version 5.01 installed on POS terminals of the hypermarkets which are a part of network. Besides, the specialized analytical system of the class BI DiAna is separately used for efficiency analysis of work of the network enterprise in general and each hypermarket : Digital Analytics Pro.

The FIT company equipped hypermarket in Bryansk with POS terminals, having set the line from 32 modern, high-performance and reliable cash OMRON POS FIT-7000K systems.

IT systems from FIT company are constructed using the centralized principle of architecture which is based on the single database and the uniform server for all network. It brings considerable economic effect due to decrease in all cost types, and first of all – on a managerial personnel and IT infrastructure. But the main thing is a real mode of operating time of all users of a system that much increases effective management of purchasing activity, improves quality of supply chain management and gives the chance to quickly check work of remote objects of network.

CEO of GRINN Corporation Nikolay Greshilov: "In our corporation all management: by both the range, and price policy, and an advertizing campaign it is performed from the center. So without intermediaries there are big batches of purchases, all this allows to set low prices".

Olga Pavlovskaya, deputy CEO, director of retail trade: "Thanks to GESTORI Pro I have an opportunity, being in the central office, to keep under control and to manage such difficult objects as the hypermarkets located at huge distances from each other".

In the summer of 2011 the France Informatique & Technologie (FIT) company automated new hypermarkets of Liniya network in Smolensk and Kursk.

The total area of hypermarket in Smolensk which became the first in the city is 14 thousand sq.m, in Kursk – 10 thousand sq.m. In assortment – more than 20 thousand names of food products. If in Kursk the second hypermarket of network is open already, then Smolensk became a new point on the map of development of Line, the tenth region of presence in Russia. One more hypermarket of network works from last year in Gomel (Republic of Belarus).

The basis of complex IT solution for network management Line is formed by the information systems developed in FIT company and completely integrated, including a management system for merchandising of GESTORI Pro, uniform for all network, and the cash system "POS-FIT-K" Version 5.01 installed on POS terminals of the hypermarkets which are a part of network. Besides, the specialized analytical system of the class BI DiAna is separately used for efficiency analysis of work of the network enterprise in general and each hypermarket: Digital Analytics Pro.

The FIT company equipped hypermarkets with POS terminals, having set the line from 32 (in Smolensk) and 19 (in Kursk) the modern, high-performance and reliable cash OMRON POS FIT-7000K systems.

• The Bryansk's third, twentieth – in Line

2013: Development of the project in Kursk

On October 19, 2013 the France Informatique & Technologie (FIT) company announced automation of new, twenty third hypermarket of LINIYa network and the third hypermarket opened in the city of Kursk.

Project Progress

^{The hypermarket of 10 thousand sq.m} is open in the Railway district, on Oktyabrskaya Street. It is the Kursk's third hypermarket of network.

For date of opening in a trading floor are set and 20 OMRON POS FIT-7000K POS terminals delivered by FIT company according to the project operate. However, in the first days of work the cash line had to be increased - acting did not cope with a flow of buyers. At the moment in it 23 POS terminals.