Accenture to Help Streamline Technology Operations at Bharti Retail,
Enabling Advanced Planning Systems with Analytics
NEW DELHI -- (Business Wire)
Bharti Retail Limited has selected Accenture (NYSE:ACN) to implement
SAP® solutions to enable the retailer to more efficiently plan, monitor
and track the flow of merchandise and information throughout its supply
chain. Bharti Retail currently operates 212 neighbourhood stores and
compact hypermarket formats across 11 Indian states.
By rolling out the SAP ERP application and data management software,
along with solutions for merchandising, forecasting, promotion
management and fulfillment, Bharti Retail will be able to better react
to shifting retail trends and better serve its customer base across all
touch points.
Under the contract, Accenture will also implement advanced analytics,
planning and financial solutions from SAP, designed to improve the speed
of reporting across the organization. This will provide Bharti Retail
with actionable business insights and lay a foundation for better
decisions for operational and business planning.
“The retail industry today is facing challenges of poor consumer
sentiments, supply chain inefficiencies and rising costs,” said Raj
Jain, MD & CEO, Bharti Retail Limited. “We believe that Accenture’s
systems integration capabilities and deep retail industry knowledge,
combined with its unrivalled understanding and experience in
implementing SAP solutions, will help us simplify and strengthen the
efficiency of our business operations and support our efforts to rapidly
scale up our business.”
Avinash Vashistha, chairman and managing director for Accenture India,
said, “Retailers need to create better business insights and become more
dynamic and agile in order to compete as a high-performance
organization. Using advanced analytics and implementing a central
planning platform will provide Bharti Retail the insights, flexibility
and transparency it needs in its IT operations and supply chain, thereby
helping the company to streamline its operations expenditure and improve
its profitability.”
About Bharti Retail Limited
Bharti Retail Limited, a wholly owned company of Bharti Group, one of
India’s leading business groups, owns and operates neighbourhood
supermarket stores called Easyday and Compact Hypermarket stores called
Easyday Market, which bring together a wide range of relevant goods,
high-quality products and great in-store experience and service – all
under one roof. Easyday supermarkets cater to every family’s day-to-day
food and grocery needs. Easyday Market stores range up to 55,000 sq. ft
and feature a wide assortment of goods including apparel, home
furnishings, Appliances and other electronic products, stationery,
household articles as well as daily-need Fresh (meat & poultry and fresh
produce), groceries, staples, processed foods, bakery & dairy products.
About Accenture
Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and
outsourcing company, with more than 293,000 people serving clients in
more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience,
comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions,
and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies,
Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance
businesses and governments. The company generated net revenues of
US$28.6 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2013. Its home page
is www.accenture.com.
Contacts:
Accenture
Rony Thomas, + 91 9845 540 592
rony.a.thomas@accenture.com
or
Aleks
Vujanic, + 44 7500 974 814
aleks.vujanic@accenture.com
Source: Accenture
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