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Optimizing processes for efficient RETAIL MANAGEMENT

Lately, the Retail market has registered certain dynamism, especially due to the international stores networks that have opened commercial centres in Romania generating a harsh competition in this area.
In these conditions, one of the main Romanian companies on the Retail market needed to optimize its processes in order to increase its business performance, to insure its sustainability and market share.
The ability of Integrator’s consultants to understand the customer’s business requirements and to model them with SAP system implementation determined, only after 4 months, the increase in operational performance and brought important benefits to the company.

The magic word: collaboration
The success of the SAP system implementation for Retail within the Hypermarket was based, in addition to incontestable systems performance, on the efficient collaboration between Integrator’s and the Hypermarket project team members. The latter team was very motivated at a high level; that allowed the appliance of the best practices, and along with the system implementation they also managed to thoroughly model the internal processes.

The Hypermarket obtained important benefits from the concurrence in operational performance, both of the purchase and product management processes due to the improvement of the cash flow and the relationship with customers and vendors.

An interface of SAP Retail system with POS sales application and other applications for PDA portable equipments was made for receipts and inventory within the hypermarket. Thus, all this information is stocked in SAP system, for easy access, while running certain standard reports, detailed history of sales and profitability on divisions, departments, group of products or products.

A dynamic perspective upon performance
The system allows the Hypermarket management to supervise its financial and accounting processes and optimize its logistic processes.
The Hypermarket is also in the position of thoroughly managing products movement, updating stock reports in real time, updating information on business volume, as well as contracts and purchase orders.