The client is one of the largest retail groups in the Middle East region with interests in Clothing, Footwear, Female accessories, Baby’s clothes and accessories and household furniture. It has a turnover of over $600 million. With its branches spread across the GCC and India, The client today operates over 400 stores and around 10 Malls

The client wanted to revamp its IT infrastructure, Retail systems & Back office systems (Finance & HRMS). The key business challenge was the exhaustive implementation of Oracle Application across numerous business entities across 90 companies which comprised of large number of users, properties, set of books & legacy systems that were interfaced

Zensar’s solution consisted of Oracle Applications 11.5.9 implementation with the following customizations for a sizeable number of interfaces, concurrent programs, reports & workflows.

The key Interfaces with Oracle Applications 11i included:

• POS/Merchandising system interfacing
• Payroll to Oracle AP
• Suppliers – Oracle AP to Trade Item purchasing and ordering system (COPS)
• Supplier Invoices/Prepayments – COPS and Inventory Management system to Oracle AP
• Cost sheet interface - Import process and Warehousing system to Oracle GL
• Petty-cash expenses - Upload from Excel to Oracle AP
• AP to AR settlement of Invoices – Sale-Purchase transactions between Central procurement entity and other company entities in different territories
• Statistical data from Property Manager to GL – used for allocations. This is to facilitate Square feet-wise analysis for all revenue data.
• Customized inter-company transactions
• Daily Sales Report Data mart
  

Zensar consultants successfully implemented Purchasing and Property Manger apart from the financial modules to facilitate purchasing of expense items and services and to cater to space and lease management of the client properties including Stores, Malls, Offices, Residences and Warehouses respectively. Zensar also successfully implemented the Oracle Daily Business intelligence Module (DBI) during the assignment which the client’s payables managers & analysts the daily information they need to identify critical outstanding holds, enhance relationships with suppliers.