DynaSys, European leading provider of Supply Chain Planning solutions, announced the signature of a new contract with ALINEA, the furniture and decoration specialist, for the implementation of n.SKEP Retail Planning. This solution by DynaSys dedicated to distribution and retail sector will enable Alinea to optimize its planning, especially concerning sales forecasting and procurement.

The companies' point of view

ALINEA comments this choice: "We're continuously doing our best to offer a large choice to our customers. For that, we have to manage at best the sales forecasts, because optimizing their management will enable us to improve our procurement plans, a definite issue for our stores and satisfaction guarantee for our customers. The business approach of the DynaSys teams and their n.SKEP Retail Planning vertical solution made the difference while taking our decision."

Ariel Weil, DynaSys General Manager, explains: "We are happy to have a company as dynamic as ALINEA among our customers. Our knowledge of issues and needs of the distribution and retail sector, and the continuous work that we do in partnership with our customers in this field, enable us to improve continually n.SKEP Retail Planning, a vertical solution adapted to this business, and to offer also a demand, procurements and inventories planning solution extremely accurate."

The ALINEA Company

This furniture and decoration specialist has been founded in 1989 by a team of passionate. Nowadays, the company has 17 stores and a merchant site, and opens 2 stores per year. Its turnover for 2007 was 350 million Euros for 2000 employees.

ALINEA proposes various products to answer consumers' needs, which can be tableware, furniture, lighting, garden accessories, etc. For more information: www.alinea.fr

The n.SKEP Retail Planning solution in brief

Based on the DynaSys expertise and know-how for several years in the distribution and retail field, n.SKEP Retail Planning is totally integrated, flexible and customizable. It enables companies to plan and optimize their Supply Chain and to better control its complexity.

n.SKEP Retail Planning enables:

• Demand planning
• Procurement planning
• Inventories planning

With n.SKEP Retail Planning, the DynaSys customers benefit from a collaborative and ergonomic planning tool (multi-levels, multi-units, graphical views, etc.) which is totally interoperable with the Information System (SAP, JDE, ORACLE, Lawson, Infor, etc.)

Concrete results could have already been measured in using companies, whom, among others, an improvement of the customer's satisfaction, a margins increase and an optimization of global communication for the whole network.

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