Pinault-Printemps-Redoute taps Perfect Commerce to improve e-procurement functionality and flexibility
Kansas City, MO — April 3, 2006 — French luxury goods retailer Pinault-Printemps-Redoute group has selected Perfect Commerce to automate its e-procurement processes and will use Perfect's family of on-demand application and online supplier network to improve e-procurement functionality and flexibility, the solution provider has announced.
With 82,000 employees in 65 countries, Pinault-Printemps-Redoute (PPR) is a global player in retail and luxury goods, holding such brands as Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, Stella McCartney and Balenciaga. PPR generated sales of $21.5 billion in 2004.
Internally named the Welcome project, PPR group launched its global e-procurement initiative in 2003 with a pilot phase within subsidiary FNAC. After the successful pilot phase, PPR group is now launching the Welcome project within the Printemps and Conforama subsidiaries, eventually targeting more than 3,000 internal end-users across PPR group.
Fixing Procurement Issues
As part of a broad launch of the Welcome project, PPR group chose to change its e-procurement platform and supplier enablement solutions to Perfect Commerce to build on the early success of the project.
Perfect said that its PerfectProcure applications provide on-demand capabilities that automate the procurement and purchasing process. PerfectProcure solutions are delivered on-demand through the Internet and share a common multi-tenant technology. Perfect said that companies using the hosted platform can lower costs and accelerate return on investment through reductions in IT resource investment and faster implementation.
"The Perfect Commerce solution will provide a boost to our corporate initiative," said Emmanuel Fougere, FNAC chief indirect purchasing officer. "Perfect Commerce solutions and services will fix some existing procurement issues and increase the scope of our organization's managed purchasing families."
"Perfect Commerce will provide our organization with improved supplier pricing, enhanced services and support and an easy-to-use application for greater functionality to gain the full benefit of the software and services," said Elisabeth Didier, Welcome project leader for PPR group.
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Kansas City, MO — April 3, 2006 — French luxury goods retailer Pinault-Printemps-Redoute group has selected Perfect Commerce to automate its e-procurement processes and will use Perfect's family of on-demand application and online supplier network to improve e-procurement functionality and flexibility, the solution provider has announced.
With 82,000 employees in 65 countries, Pinault-Printemps-Redoute (PPR) is a global player in retail and luxury goods, holding such brands as Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, Stella McCartney and Balenciaga. PPR generated sales of $21.5 billion in 2004.
Internally named the Welcome project, PPR group launched its global e-procurement initiative in 2003 with a pilot phase within subsidiary FNAC. After the successful pilot phase, PPR group is now launching the Welcome project within the Printemps and Conforama subsidiaries, eventually targeting more than 3,000 internal end-users across PPR group.
Fixing Procurement Issues
As part of a broad launch of the Welcome project, PPR group chose to change its e-procurement platform and supplier enablement solutions to Perfect Commerce to build on the early success of the project.
Perfect said that its PerfectProcure applications provide on-demand capabilities that automate the procurement and purchasing process. PerfectProcure solutions are delivered on-demand through the Internet and share a common multi-tenant technology. Perfect said that companies using the hosted platform can lower costs and accelerate return on investment through reductions in IT resource investment and faster implementation.
"The Perfect Commerce solution will provide a boost to our corporate initiative," said Emmanuel Fougere, FNAC chief indirect purchasing officer. "Perfect Commerce solutions and services will fix some existing procurement issues and increase the scope of our organization's managed purchasing families."
"Perfect Commerce will provide our organization with improved supplier pricing, enhanced services and support and an easy-to-use application for greater functionality to gain the full benefit of the software and services," said Elisabeth Didier, Welcome project leader for PPR group.
Additional Articles of Interest
— What the year ahead holds for the purchasing card — and why you may want to give your p-card program another look. Read more in "The Net Best Thing: P-Card Update," in the February/March 2006 issue of Supply & Demand Chain Executive.
— How do you avoid losing a limb as you're working with new technologies? A supply chain icon offers his take on this conundrum. Read more in "Executive Memo: Stepping into the Deep Water," in the February/March 2006 issue of Supply & Demand Chain Executive.
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