First milestone: successful inventory with new Compex Commerce® softwareThe Kissel group began last year with the branch-wide introduction of new Compex Commerce® software and has now, together with the software provider Compex, reached the first intermediate goal. The inventory management component, as planned, has been live since the beginning of the year. The trading group, based in Landau, Germany, was already able to realize savings during the first inventory count with the new software.
Since the previously running software had reached its practical limits, the Kissel group, with 21 retail branches and two “cash-and-carry” markets, had begun in June of 2016 with the introduction of Compex Commerce®. The project began under extreme time pressure, which makes the success of the first project phase that much more important for CEO Uwe Gebhardt. “We were on-time with the implementation and were able to complete the inventory even more quickly than with the old system”, according to Gebhardt. “The tone-setting effect of the first steps of such a project is always important for the further course of the project.” He is confident that the intermediate success shows that Kissel, together with Compex, is moving in the right direction. Project completion is planned for the third quarter of 2018.