Retail BI advanced at Ripley

BANGALORE, INDIA: Manthan Systems, a provider of Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics solutions for the retail and consumer goods industries announced that Ripley Chile Inc. has selected its flagship product, ARC Merchandise Analytics.

A comprehensive performance management solution for retail merchandising, ARC Merchandise Analytics will assist Ripley in optimizing inventory levels and in stock positions, improving assortments, reviewing competitive positioning, and better managing in store operations. Along with Manthan's failsafe guaranteed ARC implementation, Ripley is also deploying Manthan's Retail Performance Management Framework, a best practices role-based implementation approach that ensures rapid adoption of BI within a retail organization, reduces time to benefit, and accelerates ROI.

"With today's rapidly growing and competitive business environment, it became essential that we provided our associates with the best possible systems to improve productivity and employ better insight into critical decisions," says Ronny Scheller, Director of Merchandise Planning and Logistics. With Manthan Systems in place we are employing the next generation in Retail BI and equipping Ripley with state of the art capabilities.

"ARC will replace our legacy BI environment" noted Gustavo Pardo, CTO/COO. "ARC will transform the way our merchandising executives look at their business, but will also touch many other areas within Ripley, including areas such as store operations, marketing, finance, and loss prevention"

Ripley Corp is a retail company in Chile and Peru. Ripley's main line of business is the retail sale of clothing, accessories and home furnishings, though the company also participates in the financial business through direct credit to its customers.