Convenience store supplier Nisa-Today's expects to make
extra sales of at least £7.5m a year after modifying its core Retek
system.
The company, which supplies Costcutter and many regional
convenience store chains, has spent £8m over the past three years
modifying its Retek Merchandising System (RMS) 10, and has
completed the addition of an Order Capture System from supplier
Enabler.
Users can access the Order Capture System through standard
interfaces on the Retek application.
The company has started to connect all its 5,000 stores to a
virtual private network to access the system. The VPN roll-out will
take 12 months.
The system changes should lead to extra sales at the 5,000
stores that buy their goods from Nisa-Today's because they will be
automatically notified of promotions when they place orders.
Nisa-Today's IT director, Wayne Swallow, said, "There are all
sorts of upselling opportunities that had never previously been
possible."
Nisa-Today's also expects to reduce the cost of its in-store
promotions by at least £1m a year because the Retek application
will send all of the information that a store needs to each shop's
electronic point-of-sale system.
The two systems have been integrated using Sun's SeeBeyond
technology.