Leading UK-based fashion retailer, River Island has selected Oracle Retail Planning and Optimization solutions to support its strategy for commerce anywhere growth and international expansion. The retailer wanted to improve planning across their multiple channels to better support its growing business.
Oracle provides retailers with a complete, open and integrated suite of business applications, server and storage solutions that are engineered to work together to optimize every aspect of their business. Top 20 retailers worldwide such as fashion, hardlines, grocery and specialty retailers use oracle solutions to drive performance, deliver critical insights and fuel growth.
“Consumer demand for commerce anywhere is challenging organizations to optimize operations and seek insight that will deliver consistent customer experiences,” said Mike Webster, Senior Vice president and General Manager of Oracle Retail. “The strategic investment in oracle Retail can help River Island to achieve these goals and drive growth in the highly competitive fashion market.”
River Island has a global portfolio of over 300 stores across the UK, Ireland and internationally throughout Asia, the Middle East and Europe, along with multiple web, franchise and wholesale operations. River Island will use Oracle Retail merchandise Financial Planning, Oracle Retail Assortment Planning and Oracle Retail Item Planning to establish more consistent and accurate planning process that manage current and future planning and lifecycle needs. River Island can reconcile all merchandise, financial, item and assortment plans to business targets, improving accuracy and optimizing in-season inventory, sales and margin performance, including exception management.
The UK-based retailer expects to better understand merchandise performance throughout the business, using the cross-organizational collaboration to drive more profitable inventory investment decisions and improve the customer experience. River Island identified in Oracle Retail a highly flexible and scalable solution built on deep fashion retail expertise that is designed to support the needs of its growing commerce anywhere, international fashion retail business and its various operational models.
“Global and omni-channel expansion is a key strategic focus and to do this successfully, Oracle will help us optimize our planning practices to support this growth while continuing to provide our customers with their must-have items, wherever and whenever they shop with us,” said Doug Gardner, Chief Information Officer of River Island.
By Pia Talwar