BI seeds at Sprouts Farmers Market

BANGALORE, INDIA: Manthan Systems has completed the implementation of the ARC BI Platform and Merchandise Analytics at Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. Sprouts Farmers Market, an organic specialty retailer, operates 166 retail stores across eight states.

In 2011 and 2012, Sprouts Farmers Market completed mergers with Henry's Market and Sunflower Farmers Market resulting in a mix of competing IT applications to manage the business. The ARC BI Platform, as explained in the announcement, enables Sprouts to aggregate retail data from multiple sources so that merchandisers, marketers, store operations professionals, supply chain operators and executives can access a single application to gain insights regarding business performance quickly and easily.

"The primary motivation for the Manthan solution adoption was the desire to get our decision makers the information they needed more quickly," said Steve Black, chief information and marketing officer at Sprouts Farmers Market. "Teams across the organization needed an easier way to look at data coming from multiple sources, without having to put that data together. We then wanted to have the ability to drill down or drill across that data. With Manthan solutions, all areas of the business have access to timely information on multiple devices, including mobile."