Fashion Retailer Cuts Overnight Processing While Delivering Accurate and Timely Intelligence
To remain competitive, the French Connection Group needed accurate, up-to-date business intelligence to provide dynamic information on inventory movement and margins. French Connection had been relying on a manual, error-prone processes to support retail service and business intelligence. Every day, each retail outlet transmitted large amounts of data on sales, inventory, and other critical business details to the main datastore in the headquarter offices. There, two people waited for this information and compiled it into a paper “run sheet” for the day.