Brico Dépôt Improves Merchandising Execution and Increases Productivity in the French Market with the Support of JDA Software
September 15 2010 - 8:03AM
Business Wire
JDA® Software Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: JDAS),
The Supply Chain Company®, announced today that Brico Dépôt
has successfully completed the implementation of JDA® Space
Planning, JDA® Intactix Knowledge Base and JDA® Web Publisher. A
part of the £10 billion Kingfisher Group, the No. 1 do-it-yourself
(DIY) and home improvement retailer in Europe, Brico Dépôt is a
French chain of DIY and home improvement stores offering a wide
range of renovation products, from building materials and tools to
finished products such as windows, doors and other home
fixtures.
The deployment of the JDA Space & Category Management
solutions enables the retailer to successfully plan category and
merchandise strategies, as well as maximize overall profitability
per square foot across its more than 100 retail depots in France.
As a result, Brico Dépôt has improved its in-store merchandising
processes, increased productivity and streamlined the execution of
top-level category plans to maintain its leadership position across
Europe in the competitive DIY retail environment.
“Brico Dépôt relies on JDA’s Intactix Knowledge Base and Web
Publisher solutions as tactical support to achieving its strategic
objectives, including the development of precise planograms to each
depot. With a dedicated portal to recommendations from Brico
Dépôt’s headquarters, our company’s innovative concept and
corporate brand at each depot is consistent and efficiently
maintained,” said Médéric Payne, merchandising and commercial
planning director, Brico Dépôt. “JDA’s proven Space &
Category Management solutions help Brico Dépôt streamline
merchandising execution to optimize space and category performance.
These solutions play an important role in helping us to deliver
more value to customers and improve returns to shareholders.”
Payne added, “With our expanding retail operations across
Europe, we knew that JDA’s Space & Category Management
solutions would help us to successfully translate merchandising
strategy into tactics, drive consistent store execution of our
corporate decisions, and lay the foundations for our future growth.
I believe that utilizing JDA’s robust solutions will help Brico
Dépôt to improve overall profitability as well as help us to
achieve a completely integrated supply chain within the next few
years.”
Brian Mort, JDA Software’s regional vice president, EMEA,
commented, “To succeed in today’s competitive, consumer-driven
market, retailers must accurately pinpoint consumer behavior and
profitably satisfy demand. JDA’s Space & Category Management
solutions help retail companies worldwide to achieve tangible
benefits through merchandising optimization. We are delighted that
Brico Dépôt has implemented JDA’s proven, industry-leading Space
& Category Management solution suite to effectively plan,
execute and analyze its demand-based category and assortment
strategies. We look forward to helping Brico Dépôt drive overall
profitability, maximize sales per selling area and satisfy
customers through optimized strategic merchandising
initiatives.”
Learn more about JDA’s Space Planning, Intactix Knowledge Base
and Web Publisher solutions at JDAConnect 2010, October 18-20 in
Amsterdam.
About Brico Dépôt
Founded in 1993 by Castorama Dubois Investment, €2.7 billion
Brico Dépôt is a French chain of home improvement retail stores.
Serving a large European clientele of do-it-yourselfers and
professionals in the construction business, Brico Dépôt is present
in 100 French cities and has 16 stores in Spain and six in Poland.
With over 13,000 SKUs, the retailer offers a wide range of DIY and
renovation products, from building materials and tools to finished
products such as windows, doors and other home fixtures. For more
information on Brico Dépôt, visit
www.bricodepot.com/en/accueil.php.
About JDA Software Group, Inc.
JDA® Software Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: JDAS), The Supply Chain
Company®, is a leading provider of innovative supply chain
management, merchandising and pricing excellence solutions. JDA
empowers more than 6,000 companies of all sizes to make optimal
decisions that improve profitability and achieve real results in
the discrete and process manufacturing, wholesale distribution,
transportation, retail and services industries. With an integrated
solutions offering that spans the entire supply chain from
materials to the consumer, JDA leverages the powerful heritage and
knowledge capital of acquired market leaders including i2
Technologies®, Manugistics®, E3®, Intactix® and Arthur®. JDA’s
multiple service options provide customers with flexible
configurations, rapid time-to-value, lower total cost of ownership
and 24/7 functional and technical support and expertise. To learn
more about JDA Software, please visit www.jda.com, e-mail
info@jda.com or follow JDASoftware on Twitter.
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