Delivering effective decision making - Getronics implements Sun and Oracle data warehousing for Booker

Sector: Retail

• Consolidation and integration of corporate decision support systems
• Management and migration to new standards

• Transaction level data warehousing based on Sun servers and Oracle applications
• Continuous service management

• Faster, easier access to key management information (sales, stock and intake) both to the business and its suppliers. In particular allowing Booker to drive up customer services by improving stock availability, and driving up performance throughout the supply chain process with a view to driving down overall stock levels to release cash flow back into the business.
• Improved business decision-making and planning providing visibility of branch service levels, product availability and profitability as well as supplier performance
• Stability, reliability and scalaibility in the data warehouse

Booker is the UK's largest food & drink wholesaler, offering branded and own-label goods to over 400,000 customers, including independant convenience stores, grocers, pubs and restaurants. The company currently lists over 18,000 lines of product, covering branded and own label grocery, fresh and frozen food, beers, wines, spirits, tobacco and non-food items. It operates 173 branches in the UK.

"OUR BUSINESS IS SHAPED BY CHANGE, BOTH STRATEGICALLY AND TACTICALLY. WE REALLY HAVE TO ADAPT RAPIDLY TO SHIFTS IN PATTERNS OF DEMAND, WHILE PLANNING IN LINE WITH DEVELOPING TRENDS, GETRONICS HAS DEVELOPED A DEPTH OF UNDERSTANDING OF OUR PROCESSES AND PRESSURES THAT HAS GIVEN US A STABLE, AVAILABLE AND RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE, CAPAPBLE OF DEALING WITH WITH THE SPIKES AND TROUGHS CREATED BY OUR BUSINESS MODEL. THE SUN-ORACLE IMPLEMENTATION GETRONICS OPERATES FOR US HAS PROVED CONSISTENTLY RELIABLE AND HAS ADAPTED SEAMLESSLY TO OUR EVOLVING BUSINESS NEEDS"

Kevin Hembrow (IT Director)

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