REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Jan. 14,
2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading clothing and homewares retailer
Matalan has chosen Oracle to help maximize its data insights and
improve inventory availability and customer service. Matalan's
dynamic growth, planned expansions, and evolving consumer demands
across an omnichannel environment drove the need for an integrated
planning solution that could provide a single source of truth for
its business. With Oracle Retail Cloud solutions Matalan will be
able to accurately map inventory assortments against consumer
preferences and seasonal trends across 225 stores in the UK and 25
in international markets.
"We continue to invest in innovative technology and tools that
enable us to present our customers with a fantastic product range
that is accessible where and when they choose to shop," said
Howard Reed, Chief Technology
Officer, Matalan.
Matalan continues to innovate more efficient retail experiences
that support the needs of the modern family with late operating
hours, free click and collect service and a wide assortment of
products. As Matalan strives to become the omnichannel leader for
family value, the team craved a more efficient approach to planning
that would allow them to offer customers a broader range of
products with iterative, coherent assortment plan. With the
implementation of Oracle Retail Merchandise Financial Planning
Cloud Service and Oracle Retail Assortment Planning Cloud Service,
Matalan will be able to leverage a single version of truth for
inventory and assortment planning, enabling the business to better
align to customer preferences while expanding the assortment of
relevant products at a macro and store level.
"Our SaaS solutions provide retailers like Matalan with a quick
and consistent path to adopt innovations, standardize business
processes, and leverage best practice templates through our
continuous delivery model," said Mike
Webster, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Oracle
Retail. "We look forward to continuing to support the Matalan team
in their continued growth as they begin to capture the value of
more dynamic inventory assortments for customers."
Matalan has previously implemented Oracle Marketing Cloud to
support online and in-store traffic levels with data-driven
insights, build effective campaigns and tune the mobile
experience.
About Oracle Retail
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retail. Oracle provides retailers with a complete, open, and
integrated platform for best-of-breed business applications, cloud
services, and hardware that are engineered to work together.
Leading fashion, grocery, and specialty retailers use Oracle
solutions to accelerate from best practice to next practice, drive
operational agility and refine the customer experience. For more
information, visit our website at www.oracle.com/retail.
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