E.J. Pope & Son, Inc. Selects RedPrairie's BlueCube Enterprise Mid-Size Retail Solution(TM)
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Milwaukee, WI - RedPrairie Corporation, a world leading consumer driven optimization company, today announced that E.J. Pope & Son, Inc. (dba Handy Mart) has purchased RedPrairie's BlueCube Enterprise Software for mid-sized convenience store retailers. Handy Mart will implement the Supply Chain Management, Financial Management, Learning Management, Time and Attendance, & Scheduling solutions in all 43 locations. The solution will help Handy Mart improve labor cost, inventory management and customer service.
The RedPrairie solution will provide Handy Mart with the necessary information to identify trends, analyze customer buying behavior, optimize inventory levels and react quickly to changes at the sites. The implementation will revolutionize store operations by enabling store, field, and corporate managers to manage by exception. They will rely on BlueCube Enterprise alerts to notify them that operational challenges exist and need to be resolved. The scheduling solution will enable Handy Mart to efficiently schedule labor to improve service while reducing cost.
"We were to the point that we needed a cost effective way to improve the efficiency of our supply chain," said Judson Pope, E.J. Pope & Son, Inc.'s President. "RedPrairie's subscription model allows us to implement back office technology affordably by reducing our up front costs. We are certain that this effort will allow us to improve our customer service and result in increased profitability."
David Bunch, Vice President of Operations added, "We're excited about implementing RedPrairie's integrated features of store level forecasted ordering, time and attendance, and electronic employee scheduling to reduce costs in those areas, and we will use the learning management and e-Courses to quickly deliver training to employees so we can realize rapid adoption of these features."
"We're pleased to offer our solution to mid-size convenience store retailers so they can realize the return on investment that large chains have seen with their adoption of the RedPrairie BlueCube Enterprise solution," states Kevin Saum, VP and GM of Back Office Store solutions for RedPrairie.
Saum continues, "Integrating to Verifone's Sapphire allows us to take advantage of its true open system architecture and allows us access to richer data, enabling us to implement forecasted ordering, item level inventory control and full electronic replenishment at E.J. Pope and Son."
About E.J. Pope & Son
E. J. Pope & Son, Inc. is a third generation family-owned business founded in 1919, and currently operates 43 Handy Mart convenience stores supporting Exxon, BP, and proprietary gasoline brands. Handy Mart also offers food service at 14 locations including proprietary deli, Subway, Pizza Inn, and White Swan Chicken & Barbeque programs.
About RedPrairie Corporation
RedPrairie is a world leading consumer driven optimization company. Built on an advanced Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) developed over the past 10 years, the RedPrairie integrated suite of solutions offers on-demand capabilities to over 25,000 sites worldwide for many of the world's largest companies.
RedPrairie's E2e(TM) solutions synchronize people and products throughout the customer buying cycle to ensure goods reach the right place at the right time. At the point of sale, this means consumers have access to desired products and that the store is staffed with the right people to help them make their purchases. In the production cycle, it means suppliers and manufacturers time and synchronize shipments and production based on demand signals from the retailer. And in the back room of the store, it means having the least amount of inventory, solving the "last yard" problem of the retail supply chain.
With 20 global service sites and standard service methods that have been validated over the last 30 years, RedPrairie provides unparalleled service and support. For additional information, call 1.877.733.7724, or access www.RedPrairie.com.
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