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POS Software: Deploy, Integrate Best-Of-Breed Systems
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Mervyns, a clothing and home goods retailer, interfaced and implemented POS, HR, finance, supply chain, and merchandising systems in less than one year.
The challenge of separating one portion of a business from a larger conglomerate or simultaneously replacing all systems in your organization is very difficult in the retail industry. This is, however, exactly what Mervyns, a 189-store, family clothing and home goods retailer, did when it was sold off from Target in September 2004. Mervyns had two years to become independent of Target's systems, without affecting Target's ongoing IT support.
Initially, Mervyns planned to create its IT infrastructure by duplicating Target's legacy systems; however, in April 2005, Mervyns hired Kurt Streitz as its CIO. Streitz proposed that the retailer build its own best-of-breed IT infrastructure. He felt the systems worked well for Target, but they weren't ideal for a midmarket, fashion-oriented retailer. His proposal included implementing a network backbone, creating a data center, hiring IT staff, acquiring all necessary hardware, and deploying and interfacing new software for every aspect of the business – merchandising, supply chain, warehouse, POS, financial, HR, and EDI (electronic data interchange) systems. By the time Streitz' proposal was approved, Mervyns had only one year before its IT ‘independence day' was to arrive.
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