Soft Solutions

• “As our business evolves, we must have merchandise information systems that will allow us to quickly and effectively react. Soft Solutions has demonstrated to us that their product capabilities can meet this challenge.”
  

  Raymond Auger Vice President,
  Retail Systems, CVS / Pharmacy.

• “Soft Solutions is a partner who is reactive and capable of addressing our CATEGORY management business needs rapidly. Their multiple client references, project methodology and the professional commitment of their team were key success factors in our project.”
  

  Frank Witek.CEO, Carrefour MAF.

• “O'Key has an ambitious expansion strategy and we need a strong partner with worldwide experience and local presence who can accompany us in our aggressive plan,” states Sébastien Verhaeghe, OKeys executive director, corporate functions. We selected Soft Solutions over other big-name vendors because of their expertise in retail, functional coverage and their capacity to deliver results in a short time.”
  

  Sebastien Verhaeghe
  Executive Director, Corporate Functions

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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 2011

The corporate purchasing center, operating out of Dubai, uses both the ibs Deals and ibs Category solutions, intelligently complemented by ibs Referential, to manage all their category and supplier negotiations in the whole Middle Eastern region i.e. Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Pakistan and Iran. Today, Carrefour Middle East operates 50 hypermarkets in this region, and they all benefit from Soft Solutions' Master Data Management, using ibs Referential, for better item and supplier management.

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.

Canadian Tire Corporation successfully deploys the Vendor Management system from Soft Solutions

San Bruno, CA: Canadian Tire Corporation successfully deploys the Vendor Management system from Soft Solutions, a leading provider of global Intelligent Retail Systems.
ibs Referential, part of the Soft Solutions' Retail Suite, was selected by Canadian Tire for its business advantages, its unique foundation for providing a 'single version of the truth' for their information management, and for its seamless integration with their external systems. The deployment was a success and resulted in optimizing operational efficiencies.

Castorama Russia goes into production with Soft Solutions' supplier management solutions

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.more [+]

Soft Solutions, an innovative, leading provider of merchandise management and decision support software for global retailers, offers a comprehensive suite of web-based applications to support pricing, promotions, deals and category management.

Soft Solutions' applications are installed at group and store level, in hypermarkets, supermarkets, convenience store chains, hard discounters and a variety of specialty store formats including consumer electronics, sporting goods and DIY.

Our software supports merchandise operations in both food and general merchandise categories from apparel (size, color, style, collections) to prepared food (recipes), and is designed to be used in multi-country, multi-banner and multi-format retail organizations.

Our systems are in production at leading food, hypermarket, and multi-format retailers supporting over 100,000 users.

Soft Solutions is the only merchandise management package being implemented worldwide by Carrefour, the world's second largest retailer.

The Soft Solutions Suite complies with J2EE open system standards; the software has been benchmarked at 3500 simultaneous users.