Date: 1 Sep 2008
Location:
Australasia's leading retailer of automotive and boating, camping and fishing products.
Name: Super Cheap Auto Group
Location: Lawnton, Queensland
Industry: Retail, Australasia's leading retailer of automotive and boating, camping and fishing products
Brands: Supercheap Auto, BCF-Boating, Camping and Fishing, and Goldcross Cycles
Stores: 300 +
Employees: 4,000 +
SAP Solution: SAP ERP Retail
Web site: www.supercheapauto.com.au
Implementation Partner: Extend Technologies
Supercheap Auto (SCA) had outgrown their legacy systems and went to market to source a strategic ERP. At the time of the evaluation, SCA was a sub $200M business trading only in the eastern seaboard. In this context, they did not specifically need a tier 1 solution. However, they had aggressive expansion plans for the existing brand and for additional brands as well as geographic expansion. This drove them to select a strategic ERP (i.e. SAP Retail) that would provide them with the flexibility to grow channels to market and expand into new geographies without IT constraint. The project involved implementing SAP Retail with these strategic initiatives in mind.
Extend has completed the following specific projects for Supercheap Auto, look for case studies to learn more:
POS integration
SCA have an in-house developed POS that was redeveloped as a separate parallel project using .NET Framework and enhanced to read and write SAP formatted output (i.e. Idocs).
Warehouse Management Integration
During the initial implementation of SAP Retail, Manhattan Associates were doing an upgrade to WMI. Extend was required to integrate with WMI while the upgrade was occurring.
Other Challenges
The project was broken into three phases:
Click on the below links to read independant case studies on Super Cheap Auto Group's SAP ERP experiences:
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