CIBER in the press
Oroton and CIBER
November 2011 : insidesap.com.au
Luxury fashion retailer and CIBER Customer Oroton Group expresses a renewed commitment to SAP and how some very focused projects have helped turned things around.
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Why the next big things in technology for retail are mobility and social media.
August 2011 : InsideSAP publication
Michael Niestroy recently did an interview with InsideSAP publication about the next big things in technology for retail.
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CIBER in the press
SAP launches partner-hosted model for the midmarket
11 May 2010 : crn.com.au
SAP has announced that global partner and integrator CIBER is SAP's first partner to offer the hosted offering in Australia and New Zealand.
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Retailing made easy
November 2009 : insidesap.com.au
New Zealand-based EziBuy Group is a multichannel fashion retailer with 47 retail stores and almost 800,000 customers. After 30 years, the needs of the business far exceeded the capabilities of its home-grown ERP, so it was time for a change.
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Retailer builds platform for fast growth
November 2009 : insidesap.com.au
As one of Australia’s fastest-growing discount variety retailers, The Reject Shop decided new systems were needed to support its vision of 400 stores – and chose SAP for the job.
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Briscoes saves with SAP
November 2009 : techday.co.nz
Retail industry leaders EziBuy and the Briscoes Group have helped ease recessionary pressure by moving on to a tier one ERP SAP solution to improve business efficiency.
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Ret•Tech – Better business practices: improved profit
November 2009 : hardwarejournal.co.nz
Whether or not the retail economy is emerging from a recession, the reality is that the surviving retail businesses have had a good look at their operating efficiency.
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CRM adds to business value in tough times
5.10.2009 : cio.co.nz
Building a valuable customer relationship and developing customer loyalty is a top priority in business today — but can be difficult to execute without the right approach.
An article by CIBER's Thomas Wieberneit
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Postie Plus edges back into profit
25.9.2009 : nzherald.co.nz
Clothing retailer Postie Plus has reported a full year net profit of $615,000, edging back into the black from a $10.85m loss the year before on "a very good second half recovery".
Read more on the New Zealand Herald website
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Briscoe doubles profit
9.9.2009 : Stuff.co.nz
Briscoe Group has reported a more than doubling of earnings for the half year to July 26.
The retailer reported today that earnings rose to $6.52 million from $3.09 million at the same time a year ago. The result was in line with recent guidance given to the market by the company. As the company had previously indicated, included in the profit figure was an "asset impairment adjustment", which knocked $827,627 off the result.
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The Reject Shop beats guidance
19.8.2009 : egoli
The Reject Shop Limited (TRS) beat previously provided guidance to record a full year NPAT result of $19 million, up 21.8% on the previous year. However, the company said the first six weeks of FY10 had already shown signs of what a difficult year ahead it would be.
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Postie Plus credits SAP for beating market in Q4 08
4.2.2009 : Computerworld.com.au
Clothing retailer Postie Plus cites its implementation of SAP as one of the factors driving its better-than-average performance in consulting firm Deloitte’s latest South Island index.
The systems included financials, Warehouse Management and SAP’s Business Warehouse business intelligence product. The package was installed by SAP partner CIBER.
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SAP The Right Fit For EziBuy
8.10.2007 : Scoop Indepedent News
EziBuy, Australasia’s largest apparel and home décor catalogue company, has selected SAP and CIBER to deliver a new business system platform based on the SAP for Retail software solution.
The project scope includes SAP Financials, Purchasing, Merchandising, Pricing and Promotions, Internet Sales Order Processing, the SAP Business Warehouse and SAP NetWeaver with the Exchange Infrastructure for integration with the existing POS and Warehouse Management systems.
CIBER will provide services to deliver the solution in a phased approach which will see SAP Financials go live by early 2008 with the full “novaRetail” solution live by mid-year.
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Home interior company puts the spotlight on its information systems
Single platform will replace custom built apps
31.08.2007 : Computerworld.com.au
Australian fabric, craft and home interior company, Spotlight Pty Ltd, is revamping its information systems replacing a number of custom built applications and packaged solutions.
The company will move to a single platform with the implementation of
SAP for Retail with phase one to be completed by October, 2007.
The project is designed to provide Spotlight with access to detailed performance
data to support its focus on customer relationships.
Read more on the ComputerWorld website
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Stick to the Plan
April-May 2007 : Retail Systems
The success of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution is not just a technology issue, it also depends on people and processes. Jessica Twentyman examines whether it’s worth the effort.
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