OREANDA-NEWS. On March 26, 2008 IBS, Russia’s leading player in the IT and consulting market, has commenced building a unified automated retail management system for Lukomorye, a retail chain that sells children’s goods and is well known in St. Petersburg, reported the press-centre of IBS.

The project has emerged in response to the need of Lukomorye retail chain for a centralised, more feature-rich and scalable information system that would enable faster data collection and would generally improve business manageability.

IBS, which has prior experience with similar projects, including projects in St. Petersburg, was selected as the project contractor. The system will be built on IBS Retail, a proprietary retail chain solution based on Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Landsteinar Strengur’s LS Retail modules.

The project is expected to provide a fully integrated information environment spanning from the head office to in-store POS terminals. The functions to be automated as part of the project include:

Maintenance of the unified centralized reference data base
Product range management
Purchases and vendor payments management
Product storage and distribution between stores
Retail outlet management
POS-terminal transactions
Integration with the bookkeeping and tax accounting system
Integration with the bank-client system

A distributed architecture consisting of geographically dispersed databases will be implemented. The head office, the stores and POS terminals will use stand-alone databases. Procedures to be provided for data interchange between all databases will rule out system failures as there will be no connection between stores and the head office.

The system will encompass the company's head office and six stores including 24 POS terminals located in St. Petersburg, and will have approximately 30 users. This project started in February 2008 and is scheduled for completion within five months.

Companies’ Profiles
Lukomorye is a retail chain that sells children’s goods and is well known in St. Petersburg. The company's history dates back to 1993 when Troll, a sales business, was founded to provide wholesale supplies of children’s toys from China, Germany, Spain and Italy to Russia. In-house plastic toys production for children was launched in 1998, and the first Lukomorye store opened in 2002. Now the retail chain, known as Lukomorye, Everything for Children, comprises six stores in St. Petersburg. For more information on the company, please visit http://www.lukot.ru/.

IBS is Russia’s leading player in the IT and consulting market. It was formed through the merger of IBS and Borlas Consulting Group. Along with Luxoft and Depo Computers, it is part of IBS Group Holding Limited. Its core lines of business are management consulting, business applications implementation, IT outsourcing and IT infrastructure. IBS headcount exceeds 3,400 employees including over 1,500 certified consultants. IBS customer base includes 84 of Russia’s top 100 companies.