White Stuff Starts Planning with Island Pacific
August 03 2009 - 12:30PM
Business Wire
Island Pacific Systems, Inc. (Island Pacific), a 100% owned
subsidiary of 3Q Holdings Limited (ASX:TQH) announced today that it
recently signed an agreement for Island Pacific Planning, the
cornerstone of Island Pacific’s Assortment Management solution,
with White Stuff, a United Kingdom based retailer with 60 locations
that offers quality clothing and accessories for men and women –
“lovely clothes for lovely people.”
The Island Pacific Planning solution will interface with White
Stuff’s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and will be used across
all channels, including retail, web, mail order and wholesale. It
will help to manage inbound stock, freight times and allocations –
providing the retailer with a “one view” system.
White Stuff, which was founded in 1985, now has 60 stores across
the United Kingdom. The retailer is currently opening – on average
– one shop each month, and Island Pacific’s appointment is intended
to help underpin its aggressive growth strategy.
Island Pacific Planning consists of Merchandise Planning
(incorporating Price Points and Category Mix Analysis and Key Item
Planning), Store Planning (incorporating Store Clustering and
Grading) and Assortment Planning.
White Stuff grades its stores, to see what option counts are
required (including men’s, women’s and accessories). The retailer
currently operates a manual Excel-based system, to support its
planning and merchandising activity, and relevant information is
keyed in by the merchandising team for the options to be
allocated.
Venn Luscombe-Mahoney, head of IT at White Stuff, commented:
“Approximately one week per month is dedicated to manually updating
the spreadsheets, and that this is likely to increase with our
planned growth, we realised that system needed to be updated with a
sophisticated planning tool.”
“We started to look into planning systems some time ago, and
have since followed a comprehensive due diligence process, which
covered off areas including functionality, support, supplier
experience, site visits and price performance.”
Mike Dotson, Managing Director, Europe for Island Pacific,
added: “The Planning solution will not only remove the manual
processes, but it should also help to minimise issues related to
human error.”
“Over the coming months and years, we will work with White Stuff
to improve business intelligence, accuracy and efficiency – helping
the retailer to maintain its ‘best of breed’ status.”
Commenting on the selection of Island Pacific, Venn
Luscombe-Mahoney said: “The team has been very reactive, and
transparent in their approach. They are proud of their product and
confident in the service they provide, and this was corroborated by
a number of their clients.
“One of the main reasons we opted to work with Island Pacific
was its “follow the sun” support system. If we log an issue at any
time of the day or night, we can rest assured that the company will
work to correct this with immediate effect.”
About White Stuff
White Stuff is the charming boutique retailer selling “lovely
clothes for lovely people” via 60 United Kingdom shops, over 100
wholesale accounts and through a thriving home shopping
business.
Established in 1985 – the brand now sells men’s and women’s
fashion lifestyle clothing and accessories.
About Island Pacific
Island Pacific is a global leader in retail merchandising and
store operations software solutions. For 30 years, Island Pacific
has been a thought leader in retail software solutions, and has
developed a reputation for delivering high-quality,
high-reliability software to the retail industry. As a result,
Island Pacific is a leading resource for scalable, flexible and
affordable solutions for retailers around the world.
Island Pacific, a division of 3Q Holdings Limited
(www.threeq.com.au) was founded in 1978. The company is
headquartered in Irvine, California, and has offices in the United
States, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.
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