| Soft Solutions designated as top 5 assortment solutions in AMR Research Feb 2010 'Retail Assortment Management Leaders and Contenders -Evaluation Insights Revealed' report by Kevin Sternecket |
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| CVS to implement Soft Solutions's ibs CENTRAL for its Promotions Allocation |
| CVS launched the Promotions Allocations project this year after running live successfully on Soft Solutions' ibs REFERENTIAL for PIM, Vendor and Store master data management and ibs PRICING for the Pricing department. The allocation project will leverage all the master data currently in place as well as Soft Solutions' analytics engine to power the allocation forecast. |
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| Galeries Lafayette deploys the latest version of ibs DEALS for supplier management for use by its subsidiary BHV |
| BHV will be better equipped to manage their suppliers' negotiations and deals conditions like Galeries Lafayette, current users since 2005. The enhanced version of ibs DEALS enables both operating companies to leverage group negotiations, item-level conditions and generate higher return on investments on margins and productivity while bringing visibility to the entire supplier negotiation management process. This will ensure Galeries Lafayette to have superior supplier deals and be compliant to the French retail regulations |
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| Castorama Russia goes into production with Soft Solutions' supplier management solutions in Feb 2010 |
| Soft Solutions' ibs DEALS, used successfully since 2004 by Castorama France and Poland as well as B&Q UK to manage their entire supplier master data, purchasing, negotiation and invoicing process, Castorama Russia follows the other Kingfisher Group operating companies to increase supplier rebates and collection by invoicing and tracking all the negotiated conditions in a more systematic manner in a country where compliance is a rarity. Other operating companies of the Kingfisher Group like Brico Depot, will be next on the agenda for deployment. |
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| Carrefour Middle East upgrades to the latest version of ibs DEALS and ibs CATEGORY to enhance their supplier and category management in 2010 |
| The corporate purchasing center, operating out of Dubai, uses both solutions as well as ibs REFERENTIAL to manage all their category and suppliers negotiations in the Middle Eastern countries like Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Pakistan and Iran. Carrefour Middle East targets to add more than 10 hypermarkets in 2010 bringing its total to 50 for this fast growing region. They will also benefit from Soft Solutions' master data management solution, ibs REFERENTIAL, for better item and supplier management. |
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| Soft Solutions Version 7 release ahead of schedule |
| Soft Solutions' released the first of its ibs SUITE based on the version 7 architecture. Version 7 leverages the Webflow approach to enhance navigation access dynamically to information while addressing the challenges of the underlying business process in place. |
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| O'Key Implements Soft Solutions Suite for their Master Data, Analytics, Buying, Merchandising and Supply Chain Operations in Russia |
O'Key, Russia's fastest growing retailer, implements the complete Soft Solutions Suite. The scope covers Soft Solutions Retail Operations Suite for allocation, ordering, inventory, supply chain and store operations, Retail Business Suite for negotiation, pricing, promotions, assortment and merchandise management, Retail Analytics Suite for demand forecasting and optimization, Retail Collaboration Suite for retailer-supplier collaboration on top of Soft Solutions' proven and powerful Master Data Management Suite (MDM).
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| Soft Solutions’ webcast on “Effective Trade Promotions Management Requires Robust Master Data Management Capabilities” – 21 July 2009. |
| Listen to Mike Griswold of AMR Research and Joe Fakhry of Kingfisher Group and understand how trade promotions management (vendor funding) when done well reduces process costs, increases gross margin, and improves promotional execution. |
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| Intermarché selects Soft Solutions to enhance capabilities for optimizing their category, prices and margin |
| ibs CATEGORY enhances capabilities for their category management strategies, to provide continuity throughout the category management and buying process, ibs PRICING provides Intermarché with advanced price optimization and management functionalities such as competitor management, rules-based simulation and price execution in a single platform while ibs ANALYTICS embedded forecasting engine provides ibs CATEGORY and ibs PRICING the forecasting and optimization capabilities. |
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| AMR - Retail IT Leaders Forum on Master Data Management Feedback |
| 33 executives from 13 member companies participated in the Retail Peer Forum Teleconference: “Master Data Management” held on December 11, 2008. Members shared perspectives on how today’s retailers drive successful master data management (MDM) initiatives within their organizations. The teleconference guest retail co-lead, the Director of Merchandising and Marketing Systems for a chain drug retailer, described the evolution and lessons learned from its current MDM initiative. The call was co-led by Mike Griswold, VP Retail, AMR Research. |
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| Carrefour MAF successfully implemented Soft Solutions’ ibs CATEGORY in August to manage Carrefours vendor buying negotiations for eight of their countries.
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| ibs CATEGORY used in conjunction with ibs DEALS, implemented in 2004, will provide significant return on investment for Carrefour by improving their buying profits and the management of their centralized buying process. |
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| Soft Solutions launched its new embedded V6 ibs Analytics Forecasting Engine, supporting the fast growing Retail Demands. ibs ANALYTICS supports retailers full Pricing, Promotions, Markdown, Assortment and Store Replenishment optimization process. |
| “Soft Solutions’ unique analytics engine safeguards the accuracy of its business application, as it is an embedded module inside ibs RETAIL BUSINESS SUITE , declares Gilles Goldenberg, Global Vice Chairman for Consumer Business Industries at Deloitte. |
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| FNAC (PPR) successfully upgraded Soft Solutions’ ibs DEALS from V5.0.9 to V6.0.3 in August to improve their vendor profits |
| Etienne Bertin, the CIO of FNAC, complimented the joint Soft Solutions and Atos Origin implementation team on the respect of project deadlines, user satisfaction and improved performances. This implementation will be followed by a pricing project to consolidate their market share and price image. |
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| Mosmart, Russia’s fastest growing retailer, successfully implemented Soft Solutions’ ibs DEALS 2nd Batch in August to manage their vendor purchasing negotiations |
| It will continue to implement the rest of Soft Solutions Retail Suite over the next few months to manage its Assortment, Pricing, Promotions, and Store process in addition to providing a solid Master Data Management solution to support its ambitious growth of tripling its growth by end of 2009. |
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| CVS/Caremark successfully implemented Soft Solutions Master Data Management solutions (ibs REFERENTIAL and ibs DATASYNC) to replace their PIM legacy in July |
| This is the first in the series of projects to deploy the rest of Soft Solutions Retail Suite over the next three months to cover vendor, store and price management. According to Ray Augers, VP of Retail Systems, our MDM solution is the foundational application for their merchandising roadmap for the next 10 years. |
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| Canadian Tire Retail (CTR) successfully implemented Soft Solutions’ Master Data Management and Merchandising solutions (ibs REFERENTIAL and ibs PRICING) for use by 400 pricing department nd category managers in July |
| It will enable greater visibility and process improvement of the MDM and pricing process. This is the first phase of the CTR Marketing Change Program to replace its 40-year old legacies systems by Soft Solutions Retail Suite. |
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