| The Co-operative Group (tCG), based in Manchester is
the largest consumer co-op in the UK. It now owns over
1600 food stores in the UK leading the top-up food shopping
sector with their Welcome and Market Town stores.
Synectics Solutions have been helping tCG with ordering
seasonal lines since 2001 by providing a centrally run,
sales based web browser solution aimed at ordering an
appropriate product range and volumes.
The new streamlined allocation process has given the
organisation much closer control over seasonal allocations,
and has reduced the time that local store management
have needed to spend on seasonal allocations.
The system has allowed tCG to provide allocations to
over 600 newly acquired stores with little additional
load on staff resources.
For Christmas 2003, the system allocated 827 product
lines with a total retail value of £53.5 million.
http://www.co-op.co.uk/
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