100Vkus is a new supermarket chain that opened in Saratov. This is the first and only retailer in the city that offered residents a new format of grocery stores: the company stands for a healthy lifestyle and the sale of only healthy, natural and safe products at affordable prices. There are no products containing harmful food additives in the assortment of "100Vkus", 99% of the assortment of the retail network are products of domestic manufacturers. By the end of 2018, 100Vkus plans to open 10 stores in the city.
Consulting, IT support and all technological solutions for the new retail chain were provided by Odyssey Consulting Group. The company was responsible not only for automation of working operations of the trading network, but also helped the client at all important stages of the formation of a new business: she advised the customer in choosing systems and a cloud platform, selecting equipment for stores and the central office.
"The opening of the 100Vkus chain of stores is the brightest project of the Odyssey Consulting Group, which will take its rightful place in our portfolio of success stories. This is even more than digital transformation, we built the entire business model from scratch, created the basis for future development and prosperity! We wish every resident of the city to discover "100Vkus" and in the very near future leave the network store with a huge package of healthy and wholesome food", - comments Nikolai Dorogov, Director of the Retail practice at Odyssey Consulting Group and Human Resources Management. PostgreSQL was chosen as the database management system, which provides reliable data storage and does not require the purchase of licenses, and the cloud platform was the Mail.Ru Cloud Solutions infrastructure.
focused on cloud solutions: the company plans to open new chain stores, therefore, the rapid scaling of the system and the ability to optimize the cost of ownership of IT services were important selection conditions. According to the results of the study & nbsp; of the IaaS market proposals, the trading network chose the Mail.Ru Cloud Solutions infrastructure.
The successful start of the 100Vkus project became possible thanks to the well-coordinated work of our teams: 100Vkus and Odyssey Consulting Group . Specialists of several consulting practices of Odyssey Consulting Group worked with us at once: Retail, Business Development, 1C and IT solutions. Odyssey Consulting Group specialists have demonstrated their high professionalism, reliability and in-depth knowledge of the industry, which allowed us to launch our project with high quality in a very limited time time demonstrated their high professionalism, reliability and in-depth knowledge of the industry
Create a retail network, which supports the principles of healthy eating and caring for customers became possible due to close attention to the choice of assortment and careful selection of suppliers, so one of the first tasks of the project was the automation of the procurement system. Currently the solution helps to interact with 50 of the company's suppliers.
The 100Vkus assortment is formed based on customer ratings and reviews and currently includes about 1,250 SKUs. From the first days of the network's operation, when placing orders with suppliers, "100Vkus" uses the automatic calculation of order volumes set up by Odyssey Consulting Group specialists. shelves while maintaining high turnover rates.
The largest amount of work fell on the automation of the retail sales process. In addition to the implementation of "1C: Retail" and "1C:Trade Management", this stage of the project included the tasks of selecting and configuring POS equipment, including fiscal registrars and all peripherals. “Absolutely all divisions of 100Vkus participated in the launch of the project. However, today we do not have a large IT department, so we really needed the services consulting of our partner - what the Odyssey Consulting Group team is especially strong in. Partners supported us in all directions and at every stage of the project from building a new business as a whole to such seemingly small, but important tasks for us, such as selecting, ordering and setting up trading equipment ”, adds Andrey Banshchikov.
The result of the project was the launch from scratch of a completely new retail chain a unique format for the city: the company stands for a healthy lifestyle, selling only high-quality and healthy products; ;There are no tobacco products on the shelves of the stores the company's assortment includes only safe products from Russian suppliers.
The project lasted 2.5 months, it was attended by employees of all divisions of the retail chain. Inventory management processes were automated, procurement, retail sales, accounting and staff.
The trading network plans to scale up the project and open three 100Vkus stores by the end of 2018. In terms of automation, the company intends to continue the development of the system and develop the management of such business processes as auto-order, sales planning, and procurement planning.