Al Nahdi Drives Growth and Insight with Oracle Retail Cloud Services

From Spreadsheets to Packaged Applications, Saudi Arabian Retailer Drives Increased Productivity

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Apr 19, 2017, 08:00 ET

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., April 19, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Oracle announced Saudi Arabian pharmacies' retailer Nahdi Medical Company deployed Oracle Retail Advanced Science Engine Cloud Service, Oracle Retail Merchandising Solutions, and Oracle Retail Category Management. Nahdi is considered the largest pharmacies' chain in Middle East and North Africa. Its mission is to exceed the expectations of 85 million guests across 125 cities by providing personalized high-quality health, wellness and beauty products and services through its expertise and extended reach.

Nahdi manages a huge and growing assortment of SKUs across 170 categories throughout its stores. The volume of data forced Nahdi to adopt a scalable and smart planning solution. With the deployment of Oracle Retail, Nahdi gains the ability to segment customers, cluster stores and understand the effects of demand transference without having to recruit a full team of scientists with transaction-level data experience. Powerful scientific insights are delivered in a digestible format for the business user through personal-based dashboards. Prior to selecting Oracle, Nahdi planners spent time navigating a manual process using Excel spreadsheets and in-house databases. Today Nahdi is able to optimize the planning team's productivity with standardized and automated planning processes.

"The implementation of Oracle Retail increased the accuracy of planning and forecasting the merchandising figures. We are able to plan and execute better assortment of products across our stores to our guests' satisfaction," said Dr. Khalid Tadlaoui, Vice President of Information Technology, Nahdi Medical Company. "By adopting Oracle Cloud Services, the speed to value delivered with Logic Information Systems was exceptional."

"The proliferation of data can be overwhelming, and it becomes increasingly important for retailers like Nahdi Medical Company to leverage and invest in solutions that understand how to drive insight through embedded science, business intelligence and analytics into solutions and processes," said Ray Carlin, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Oracle Retail. "Oracle Retail is incredibly proud to provide this competitive advantage as cloud services, accelerating speed to market and driving productivity."

Oracle PartnerNetwork Gold Level Partner Logic Information Systems accelerated a smooth cloud implementation and guided the customer through business process change. Logic developed a Retail Data Extractor to extract data correctly and cleanly from the installation of Oracle Retail Merchandising Systems for the cloud implementation. Logic delivered training programs to empower the business and technical teams.

"It is a privilege to work with a retailer like Nahdi who is using science to leverage the performance and availability of each individual product to satisfy their guests and who also places an importance that their employees have access to critical planning information without wasted time sifting through Excel and manual processes," said Amber Naqvi, President, Logic Information Systems.

About Oracle Retail

Oracle provides retailers with a complete, open, and integrated suite of best-of-breed business applications, cloud services, and hardware that are engineered to work together and empower commerce. Leading fashion, grocery, and specialty retailers use Oracle solutions to anticipate market changes, simplify operations and inspire authentic brand interactions. For more information, visit our website at www.oracle.com/retail.

About Logic Information Systems

Since 1997, Logic has been the trusted systems integration partner to leading retailers around the world. With an exclusive focus on Oracle Retail, and a team of more than 750 expert consultants who bring a unique balance of real-world retail and IT experience, Logic is equipped to understand and deliver on a retailer's business and technology goals. Working with Logic, retailers benefit from people, process, and technology solutions that increase efficiency, profitability and deliver a world-class experience for shoppers.

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