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Musical retailer improves stock visibility
Case Study Prior to that, the company was using Claris Filemaker, a simple database to manage stock. This system had to be polled every night and was little use to sales staff in the stores that wanted to check availability and condition of stock in other... [08 Apr 2008]
Retailer takes stock with business intelligence
Case Study Christopher Moseley, head of IT at Pearsons, told silicon.com: "The biggest single benefit [of the software] is that we know what stock we have at any one time.silicon.com Retail & Leisure Moseley said: "We know the stock instantly at the touch of... [10 Sep 2007]
Tesco.com takes stock with Windows Vista
Case Study Online shopping giant Tesco.com has migrated 2,000 desktops to Windows Vista with increased security and energy saving among the key reasons for the switch. The retailer migrated the PCs to Vista Ultimate edition in January, following several... [31 May 2007]
It's good to talk, says supermarket chain
Case Study Somerfield has reaped the benefits of improved communication flow by upping its use of conference calls, including improvements in stock availability. Sales information flowed down to the store and stock management issues flowed up to HQ.silicon... [13 Jun 2007]
Meadowhall retailers profit from warehouse tech
Case Study The ARC is a 24,000 square foot facility which offers storage space for the Meadowhall retailers and additional services such as preparation of merchandise for the shop floor including stock-tagging and deshrouding. [15 Jun 2005]
Mothercare tears up paper-based store comms
Case Study What was required was a system that could relay instructions, offers and stock data to stores in an up-to-date manner without removing staff from the shop floor for any longer than was necessary.silicon.com Retail & Leisure [03 Jul 2007]
Betfair betting engine goes supersonic
Case Study The concept is similar to a stock exchange. Even with a traditional betting engine, Betfair processes five million transactions per day - much more than the London Stock Exchange's transaction processing system is capable of. [15 Nov 2007]
American Golf drives expansion with store system
Case Study But the stores ran a different system and the two systems couldn't be integrated, which meant that head office and the stores were reconciling sales and stock reports manually. It also means that there has been an improvement in stock allocation. [14 Sep 2007]
St Paul's Cathedral upgrades shopping tech
Case Study More importantly, the new till system integrates the Epos with back-end stock management and replenishment. The Cybertill system allows us to have much more control on stock. We can support the faster selling lines much better and don't have to... [09 May 2007]
Carpetright rips and replaces to keep up with growth
Case Study Information about availability of stock and delivery times is also much more accurate. Stock is now scanned into the store, rather than recorded on a paper trail. Stock checks are made on a more regular basis because they take less time and are... [25 Jun 2007]
Standard Life goes virtual
Case Study The Edinburgh-based group provides assurance services such as banking, pensions and healthcare, and floated on the stock market about a year ago.silicon.com Financial Services Standard Life has found server virtualisation an effective way of... [11 Jul 2007]
Hasbro sorts its SOX with content management software
Case Study We are a US stock exchange-listed company so that hit us right between the eyes. Toy manufacturer Hasbro has extended the use of its content technology to help it also ensure Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance. [16 Sep 2005]
Wireless prescription helps doctors speed up treatment
Case Study Staff now use wireless scanning devices to send information on stock levels directly into the hospital's systems so more supplies can be ordered when necessary. The Royal Group of Hospitals in Belfast is using a new £150,000 secure wireless network... [06 Oct 2005]
How Norwich Union computes pay-as-you-drive
Case Study However, with in-car devices and customers now numbering more than 100,000, the kind of serious number crunching that needs to be done is based on software from datawarehousing stalwart Teradata, an independently NYSE- (New York Stock Exchange... [27 Nov 2007]
Woolworths slashes costs with supply chain tech
Case Study Until recently the processes for order picking and stock distribution remained less than cutting edge, with many processes being fairly manual and labour intensive. High street retailer Woolworths has streamlined its distribution with supply chain... [02 Jun 2008]
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