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Carrefour
"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
CVS / Caremark
On the go-live of the CVS PIM Project in Sept 09: Of all of the components in the merchandising roadmap, this one was the most important and hardest to implement. By establishing a firm but flexible foundation, we are now in great shape to positively impact the business. Congratulation to all!
Raymond Auger Vice President, Retail Systems
Canadian Tire
"Soft Solutions worked through extremely challenging conditions to deliver an incredible vendor management. This is a major milestone to move a fundamental piece that will enable future capabilities for Canadian Tire."
Duncan Reith Senior Vice President, Merchandising
O’Key
“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
Carrefour
"Carrefour Spain was the natural first candidate to implement the Soft Solutions Retail MDM Suite as a core foundation for our IT System. We have been impressed with Soft Solutions' dedication and retail industry knowledge, and expect a successful deployment. This deployment will be completed by the first semester of 2007 when the legacy systems will be completely replaced by ibs REFERENTIAL."
Christophe de Nays CIO Carrefour France
Deloitte
“Soft Solutions’ unique analytics engine safeguards the accuracy of its business application, as it is an embedded module inside ibs RETAIL BUSINESS SUITE,”
Gilles Goldenberg Global Vice Chairman
Auchan
"Soft Solutions have a unique understanding of the master data requirements of large retailers, the certification by GS1 is a further demonstration of their commitment to Global Standards and underlines the fact that they are the leading software company in Europe in enabling retailers to capture the benefits of Data Synchronisation."
Daniel Malouf CIO

Canadian Tire Corporation deploys with success the Vendor Management system from Soft Solutions

San Bruno, CA - January 11, 2012. Canadian Tire Corporation deploys with success the Vendor Management from Soft Solutions, a leading provider of global intelligent retail systems.

ibs Referential Vendor Management, is the latest module that Canadian Tire has licensed from Soft Solutions, to accomplish the full coverage of their Master Data Management (MDM).
The main benefits of this implementation are:
Guarantee the purchasing system transparency, Optimize the daily cost management, Simplify the vendor contract management.

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.

Analytics Business Suite – The science at the service of the business

Following its strategy to provide accurate simulations, forecast and optimizations to business users in a transparent manner, Analytics Business Suite continues its efforts to be fully transparent, now exposing the complete process embedded within the ibs Suite to provide top-level accuracy results. Including i3v7 concepts, the Analytics Business Suite now provides a central access to KPI indicators for the whole business real-time, allowing anticipating business changes.

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 solutions as well as ibs REFERENTIAL to manage all their category and suppliers negotiations in the Middle Eastern countries like Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Pakistan and Iran. Carrefour Middle East targets to add more than 10 hypermarkets in 2010 bringing its total to 50 for this fast growing region. They will also benefit from Soft Solutions' master data management solution, ibs REFERENTIAL, for better item and supplier management.

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.

Monoprix France selects Soft Solutions' to manage its Category Management and Supplier Negotiations

The latest version of ibs DEALS enables the Monoprix to leverage negotiations, item-level conditions and generate higher return on investments on margins and productivity while bringing visibility to the entire supplier negotiation management process. This will ensure Monoprix to have superior supplier deals and be compliant to the French retail regulations.

Soft Solutions, worldwide leading retail technology, has appointed Dr. Fady Garabet as a General Manager of its North American Operation

Boston September 22, 2010 - Soft Solutions, the worldwide leading retail technology provider, has appointed Dr. Fady Garabet as a General Manager of its North American Operation. This move affirms its commitment to the North American Market.

This is a great accomplishment. With MDM (item / store / supplier) now operational, we are now well on our way to having a world class master data management system at CVS!!
quoted Ray Augers, CVS Vice President of Retail Systems.

CVS recently completed the last phase of its Master Data Management (MDM) transformation with the production of its items, vendors, hierarchy & location masters using Soft Solutions' ibs REFERENTIAL and ibs DATA SYNC. The CVS MDM will be the foundation of their pricing and promotions optimization projects scheduled for completion the next few months.

Soft Solutions designated as top 5 assortment solutions in AMR Research Feb 2010 'Retail Assortment Management Leaders and Contenders -Evaluation Insights Revealed' report by Kevin Sternecket

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.

Galeries Lafayette deploys the latest version of ibs DEALS for supplier management for use by its subsidiary BHV

BHV will be better equipped to manage their suppliers' negotiations and deals conditions like Galeries Lafayette, current users since 2005. The enhanced version of ibs DEALS enables both operating companies to leverage group negotiations, item-level conditions and generate higher return on investments on margins and productivity while bringing visibility to the entire supplier negotiation management process. This will ensure Galeries Lafayette to have superior supplier deals and be compliant to the French retail regulations

O'Key Implements Soft Solutions Suite for their Master Data, Analytics, Buying, Merchandising and Supply Chain Operations in Russia

O'Key, Russia's fastest growing retailer, implements the complete Soft Solutions Suite. The scope covers Soft Solutions Retail Operations Suite for allocation, ordering, inventory, supply chain and store operations, Retail Business Suite for negotiation, pricing, promotions, assortment and merchandise management, Retail Analytics Suite for demand forecasting and optimization, Retail Collaboration Suite for retailer-supplier collaboration on top of Soft Solutions' proven and powerful Master Data Management Suite (MDM).
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AMR - Retail IT Leaders Forum on Master Data Management Feedback

33 executives from 13 member companies participated in the Retail Peer Forum Teleconference: “Master Data Management” held on December 11, 2008. Members shared perspectives on how today’s retailers drive successful master data management (MDM) initiatives within their organizations. The teleconference guest retail co-lead, the Director of Merchandising and Marketing Systems for a chain drug retailer, described the evolution and lessons learned from its current MDM initiative. The call was co-led by Mike Griswold, VP Retail, AMR Research.

Soft Solutions launched its new embedded V6 ibs Analytics Forecasting Engine, supporting the fast growing Retail Demands. ibs ANALYTICS supports retailers full Pricing, Promotions, Markdown, Assortment and Store Replenishment optimization process.

“Soft Solutions’ unique analytics engine safeguards the accuracy of its business application, as it is an embedded module inside ibs RETAIL BUSINESS SUITE , declares Gilles Goldenberg, Global Vice Chairman for Consumer Business Industries at Deloitte.

For the 10th consecutive year, Soft Solutions is participating in the NRF 101th annual convention & Expo on January 15-18, 2012 New York, NY.

You are invited to join Soft Solutions at booth #2860 and #1951 to test drive our Application Suite and experiment our state-of-art software that top retailers worldwide such as CVS, Carrefour, Auchan, Okey are currently using. Please join us and meet our executive, technical and field team members for hands on demonstration and product presentation of any area of the suite. Our staff will be available to answer your questions and share with you the unique experience of driving our applications.

Don’t take our word for it, please visit us at #2860 and #1951 (ARTS/Soft Solutions) and discover what Soft Solutions can deliver for you. See you in New York.