"100" and Columbus announced Taste opening of network of grocery stores

On August 21, 2018 the Columbus company announced start of retail chain stores 100 Taste in Saratov.

Consulting, IT support and all technological solutions were provided for retail chain stores to Columbus. The company was responsible for automation of working activities of retail chain stores and also advised the customer in the choice of systems and a cloud platform, selection of the equipment for shops and the central office.

Business processes 100 Taste are automated using solutions 1C: Retail, 1C: Trade Management, 1C: Accounting, 1C: Payroll and HR Management. As the database management system PostgreSQL which is providing reliable data storage and not requiring acquisition of licenses was selected.

By search of the Taste IT platform 100 was guided by cloud solutions – the company plans further opening of shops of network therefore fast scaling of a system and possibilities of optimization of cost of ownership of IT services were important conditions of the choice. Based on studying of offers of the IaaS-market the retail chain stores selected infrastructure of Mail.Ru Cloud Solutions.

It became possible create retail network which maintains the principles of a healthy power supply and care of buyers thanks to close attention to the choice of the range and careful selection of suppliers therefore automation of a purchasing system became one of the first project tasks. For August, 2018 the solution helps to interact with 50 suppliers of the company. The range 100 Taste forms on the basis of estimates and responses of buyers and about 1,250 SKU include. When forming supplier orders 100 Taste use the functionality of automatic calculation of order sizes configured by specialists Columbus. It allows to support the target objective of existence of fresh products on shelves when preserving high rates of turnover.

The largest volume of works fell on automation of process of retail sales. In addition to implementation "1C: Retail" and 1C: Trade Management this stage of the project included tasks of selection and setup of the POS equipment including fiscal registrars and all periphery.

Start from scratch to retail chain stores became a project deliverable. The project lasted 2.5 months, the staff of all divisions of retail chain stores took part in it. Processes of management of stocks, purchases, retail sales, accounting and personnel were automated.

The retail chain stores are going to scale the project and to open three Taste shops 100 by the end of 2018. Regarding automation the company intends to continue development of a system and to develop management of such business processes as Avtozakaz, Sales planning and Purchase planning.