Coop Norge: Automated planning and inventory management thanks to perpetual inventory

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  • Norway‘s 2nd Largest Retail Organisation

  • Official foundation in 1906 - the first store opened in 1867

  • 117 local cooperatives with a total of 1.7 million cooperative members

  • 1200 retail stores, including 5 supermarket chains and 4 specialist retail chains,
    as well as online shops

  • The company owns the brands Coop Extra, Coop Mega, Coop Prix, Coop Marked,
    Coop Obs! Hypermarked, Coop Byggmix, Coop Obs! Bygg and Coop Extra bygg

  • 28,000 employees

  • NOK 47 bn revenue (2017)

Further information: www.coop.no

Success Story

Coop Norge: Automated planning and inventory management thanks to perpetual inventory

At Coop Norge, the inventory was only fully recorded at the end of the year, as part of an annual counting routine.
The resulting lack of inventory visibility on most products, hindered full use of SAP F&R, with only 25% of the sales sensibly managed with this tool.

  • Complex architecture with the point-of sale system as primary and SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) as secondary system

  • Almost all movements were handled by the POS software

  • Poor user experience: several applications with many clicks

  • Inconsistent app design

SAP Forecast & Replenishment

Fully automated forecasting and replenishment with SAP F&R has been increased to more than 70 % of the total product range and continues to grow.

Solution

  • A suite of PDA and desktop Applications:

    Goods Receipt, Returns, Store Transfers, Cycle, Exception

  • Ad Hoc and Annual counting applications

  • Manager review, recount and approval process for annual counts

Benefits

  • Return architecture to SAP Best Practice with ECC as primary system, utilising new and existing SAP technologies

  • Enhanced user experience with less clicks, relevant information, asynchronous processing and optimal control of inventory

  • Consistent and uniform approach to app design and functionality

  • Increase utilisation of SAP F&R with better control of inventory

[English]

Thanks to Neptune based store-apps from retailsolutions, we massively simplified inventory management, increased automated replenishment with SAP F&R and reduced costs. Stores now have increased availability, reduced waste and more time to serve customers.

Coop Norge

Eirik Borge,

Program Manager, Coop Norge SA

[English]

Working with retailsolutions was a pleasure and I would want them on my team in any engagement going forward.

Coop Norge

Sigurd Skyum

Project Manager SAP CAR & OAA

[English]

Implementing SAP CAR OAA and Inventory Visibility was one of the most successful SAP projects Coop have run, delivering benefits from Day 1 and helping Coop achieve our goals in Omnichannel Retailing.

Coop Norge

Eirik Borge,

Programme Manager Optimal Bestilling, Coop Norge

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Implementing any standard SAP solution in our highly customized environment is always a challenge. Therefore I am very pleased by the fact that the SAP CAR project has gone as smoothly as it did keeping well under budget and completing all deliverables within 12 weeks.

Coop Norge

Martin Haneferd,

Department Manager IT – Category Management & Supply Chain, Coop Norge