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Matalan To Increase Profits With SAS’ Enterprise Intelligence Platform

June 23, 2008 –  Matalan, one of the UK's leading clothing and home wares retailers, has looked to SAS, a leader in business intelligence, to improve its ability to share vital sales information throughout its business and increase the speed at which it can be accessed.

 

By speeding up the supply of correct data, SAS provides Matalan with the ability to make faster and more accurate business critical decisions, increase efficiencies, cut costs and reduce waste, translating to an increase in bottom-line profit. 

 

SAS’ Enterprise Intelligence software provides Matalan with a complete platform for data integration, analysis and reporting. It was chosen for its superior data integration capabilities and its ability to cope with Matalan’s 466 million transactions per year. SAS will integrate data from Matalan’s disparate systems and improve the quality and timeliness of its information, providing the business with faster and more accurate decision making capabilities.   

 

The company will benefit from having visibility of the previous weekend’s trading figures by the following Monday morning. The aim is for a traffic-light report covering size, color and store performance, to be delivered electronically. This will provide detailed insight into the stores sales patterns enabling immediate response to trading performance. Using SAS, Matalan will be able to react more quickly to changes in individual stores’ sales patterns. The business will be able to order stock for each store that accurately reflects their customers’ buying behavior, thus cutting down on excess stock. 

 

Pete Trainer, IT and Logistics Director, Matalan states: “Matalan’s aim is to become a fact-based, data-driven organization and SAS has helped us toward meeting this objective. SAS’ one version of the truth gives us the ability to optimally plan, execute on that plan and react quickly to changing conditions. Bringing all our data together means that we now have a platform to build upon for future developments in the areas of merchandise planning, supply chain management and marketing outreach.” 

 


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