Service Plus Group translates ESSEN hypermarkets to "Supermag-UKM 4.0"

Moscow, on June 25, 2009. The Service Plus group is the Russian Federation's first Technology integrator, the supplier of complex projects on the organization, technology equipment and management of production - and business processes — announces a project startup the project on transfer of network of ESSEN hypermarkets in the Republic of Tatarstan on the front office system "Supermag-UKM 4.0".

Cooperation of the ESSEN enterprise and the Service Plus Group began a few years ago when the management of retail chain stores made the decision on use as the main instrument of automation of the hypermarkets development Supermagician-UKM2.0.

For last years the ESSEN retail network considerably extended. So, today it contains 12 hypermarkets in nine cities of the Republic of Tatarstan and also in the Kirov region. At the same time the range of the goods provided in shops of network reaches 15,000 names, and in ESSEN hypermarkets about 80,000 daily shop. buyers. Turnover of the company in 2008 made 5.5 billion rubles.

In process of business development and expansion of geography of work of the ESSEN enterprise there was a need of transfer of all shops of network on more powerful and multifunction management system which would allow to manage flexibly on a centralized basis them, including carrying out various discount and marketing. As such system the front office system "Supermag-UKM 4.0" which continued a professional line of solutions of Service Plus for automation of trade enterprises under the Supermag trademark was selected. Let's note that the solution "Supermag-UKM 4.0" combines an exhaustive set of trade functions and collects all necessary data for the subsequent analytical processing.

Besides, within the project in ESSEN hypermarkets cash CheckWay POS 33 system units in a complete complete set, including fiscal registrars of SP101FR-K will be delivered.

"Opening new shops, expanding the range and service quality of visitors, we initially were aimed at use in work only of the most advanced and effective technologies capable to provide that level of management which is necessary for modern trade enterprise for effective conducting geographically distributed business — Raphael Murin, the Director of information technology of ESSEN company says. — For this reason we stopped the choice on the Supermag-UKM 4.0 system. Its previous version well proved in last years, and we are sure that advanced functionality of a new solution will allow us to achieve the necessary level of management of all enterprises of ESSEN network.

"Cooperation with ESSEN company shows what effect can be gained when the customer accurately sets a task, and integrator has technologies and experience, necessary for its solution — Vadim Galimov, the head the Trade Automation direction of the Service Plus Group says. — Consolidation of these approaches, the general aiming at result, a conversation "in one language" — these components made the projects executed by us earlier for network of ESSEN hypermarkets successful. Today, when tasks of this enterprise became even more ambitious, we could propose to it the adequate modern solution which is completely answering to the level of the high requirements set by the customer within this project".

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