Webcasts

Supporting High Growth Strategies: Oracle and Sainsbury's

Supporting the growth of non-food is a key objective in the 'Making Sainsbury's Great Again' campaign and the retailer is devoting around 40% of new supermarket space to non-food as it moves forward. At the start of its non-food venture, Sainsbury's invested in Oracle Retail systems to underpin and support its objective. Implemented in only nine months and achieving ROI for clothing within a year, the Oracle Retail systems provide the flexible infrastructure that Sainsbury's needs to drive the growth potential in non-food. Gary Balmer shares the challenges of developing a non-food strategy within a grocery business and how the investment in expertise and infrastructure is supporting the growth of the business.

Speakers:

Gary Balmer, Head of IT Transformation at Sainsbury's

Lara Livgard, Retail Strategy Director Oracle Retail

Duration:

51:59 min.

Argos aligns supply to customer demand with Oracle

Argos has a fully integrated multi-channel customer offering. The UK’s largest home and general merchandise retailer is reaping the rewards of aligning supply to customer demand – instructions are accurately and efficiently carried out and management reporting is accurate and focused on exceptions.

Speaker:

Martin Rodgers, Head of Supply Development

Duration:

28:27 min.

Supporting Non-Food Growth at Sainsbury's

With sales growing at three times the rate of food, Sainsbury's offers high-street style at supermarket prices through its Sainsbury's and Tu brands. At the start of its non-food venture, Sainsbury's invested in Oracle Retail systems to support its goals for rapid growth. Achieving ROI within a year, the systems give Sainsbury's a flexible infrastructure to drive the growth potential in non-food. This session shared the challenges of developing a non-food strategy within a grocery business and showed how this supports the growth of the business.

Speakers:

Gary Balmer, Head of IT Transformation at Sainsbury's

Andrea Morgan-Vandome, VP Retail Strategy & Solution Marketing, Oracle Retail

Duration:

24:09 min.

Advanced Supply Chain: Oracle and Morrison’s

Oracle Retail and Morrisons have come together to showcase the strength of the Oracle Retail Supply Chain Solution. As we walk you through a day in the life of a Supply Chain Analyst, you will uncover the power of Oracle Retail to proactively manage your supply chain helping improve supply chain efficiencies from forecasting through to replenishment and inventory management. You will see how key metrics and reports help you prioritise your day, identify areas of opportunity and open up the channels of communication across the extended supply chain. Come and experience a real day in the life of a supply chain analyst.

Speakers:

Jerome Saint-Marc, Development Director Morrisons

Andrea Morgan-Vandome, VP Retail Strategy & Solution Marketing, Oracle Retail

Duration:

1:05:18 hr.

Winning in a Digital Age

Peter explored themes around the online experience and how this has revolutionised businesses worldwide.

Speaker:

Peter Fitzgerald, Director, Retail UK, Google UK

Duration:

18:57 min.

Merchandising 2.0: Vision & Strategy

Offering a combination of Oracle Retail strategy and vision, this session demonstrated how retailers can integrate web 2.0 capabilities into their offering for the benefit of their customers and their business.

Speaker:

Andrea Morgan-Vandome, VP Strategy Oracle Retail

Duration:

44:44 min.

Galeries Lafayette supports merchandising and growth strategies with Oracle

Galeries Lafayette - If Paris is the fashion capital of the world, then Galeries Lafayette is fashion's premier showcase. The department store is using Oracle applications to support its core merchandising capabilities and growth strategies. Laurent Singer, CIO at Galeries Lafayette, discusses the integrated infrastructure renewal project completed with Oracle.

Speaker:

Laurent Singer, CIO, Galeries Lafayette

Duration:

42:18 min.

KOJ re-platformed for international growth

Kamal Osman Jamjoom (KOJ) - "Pioneering Growth" - In a three-phased implementation of 12 Oracle applications KOJ has completely re-platformed for growth, while growing from 200 to over 450 plus stores across the Middle East and Europe.

Speaker:

Thameem Rizvon, CIO, Kamal Osman Jamjoom

Duration:

56:07 min.

How Woolworths RSA improved stock availability and end-to-end financial management

Woolworth South Africa (RSA) - Optimising retail processes and enhancing data integrity is driving retail performance for this household name in South African. John Hunt, CIO at Woolworths, discusses how standardised and centralised merchandising, planning and supply chain operations and efficient integration with back-office, has improved stock availability and end-to-end financial management.

Speaker:

John Hunt, CIO, Woolworths

Duration:

45:08 min.