Morrisons signs strategic core retail platform deal
Morrisons plans to create a core
retail platform to support its future growth.
Morrisons has decided not to develop its systems in-house, after
identifying that its existing systems could not effectively support
the company's plans for growth. The supermarket chain has entered
into a strategic relationship with
Oracle covering an
extensive range of solutions.
Morrisons has purchased: a Retail suite of merchandising,
planning and stores applications the E-Business Suite for
financials, HR/payroll and manufacturing Siebel CRM Fusion
Middleware including SOA Suite and Identity Management and a
database.
The company plans to implement the products over the next five
years to help enable its business transformation programme, and
provide an improved shopping experience for customers in its 375
stores across the UK.
Gary Barr, IT director at Morrisons, said, "We expect the
solutions to offer a breadth of functionality and a level of data
that will promote a more accurate assessment of business
performance.
"This will help us to turn information into profitable business
decisions and deliver an enhanced experience to the nine million
customers that walk through our doors each week."
The value of the deal has not been disclosed.
