SAN RAMON, Calif. -- Chevron has chosen RedPrairie's BlueCube Enterprise for its North American company-owned, company-operated stores and franchise sites. The San Ramon, Calif.-based oil company will implement the RedPrairie solution for a consistent way to measure and operate its company-owned sites and ExtraMile franchise sites. It plans to implement RedPrairie solutions at convenience stores in the United States and Canada.
We are thrilled to have Chevron, one of the top five global oil companies, as one of our premier customers in the petroleum/[image-nocss] c-store marketplace. By utilizing BlueCube Enterprise, Chevron expects to have a common platform which will help them achieve better operational excellence, said Kevin Saum, RedPrairie petroleum and c-store leader.
RedPrairie's BlueCube Enterprise is a comprehensive solution for obtaining effective and efficient operations for petroleum and c-stores. A web-architectured framework allows operators to manage the scale and price of the solution to meet business objectives while quickly achieving the benefit and payback of optimized inventory and employees. BlueCube Enterprise Solution for petroleum and c-stores impacts virtually all of the site-based operations-related environments, from daily budgeting and forecasts of inventory and employees to production planning, fresh item control, recipe management and employee scheduling and time and attendance.
In other RedPrairie news, the company said it is offering in-house hosting services for its StorePerform Workbench solution. The hosting option enables companies to deploy the store execution management application more quickly, with lower upfront capital expense and reduced IT personnel needs to support the application. The on-demand hosted model places tier-one store execution management capabilities within the reach of smaller retailers and offers an alternative, cost-effective solution for larger companies.
With two industrial-strength data centers, including one dedicated to the European, Middle East and Asia regions, RedPrairie provides a proven software as a service (SaaS) solution. RedPrairie's full suite of hosted applications covers retail operations from end-to-end, including StorePerform, BlueCube Enterprise and RedPrairie solutions.
RedPrairie's hosted offerings are available with modular subscription pricing, so customers only pay for the parts of the applications necessary for their operations. Services offered with hosting include disaster recovery, maintenance, IT administration and integration services. Companies can also migrate from a hosted or SaaS agreement to a traditional license down the road, if that model better meets future needs. Also, RedPrairie offers an easy migration path from release to release, it said, with RedPrairie staff managing upgrades rather than a customer's internal IT staff.
And at RedShift 2007, its 10th annual User Conference, RedPrairie made the commitment to integrate Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 with the RedPrairie E2e solutions. This integration will provide the ability to search across disparate enterprise systems based on supply chain data, enabling organizations to increase productivity and reduce information overload.
Combined with Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows Desktop Search, RedPrairie's supply chain data search results are delivered quickly and relevance is tuned for enterprise and line-of-business data. Users are able to easily find, use and share information in the context of where they are working, and with the familiar tools used every day, the company said.
Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides out-of-the-box search for common enterprise repositories and file types as well as for people and experts. It offers the ability to index, search and intelligently display information from line-of-business applications, relational databases and other structured content using the Business Data Catalog. Enterprise search functionality is integrated with the collaboration, portals, content management, forms and business intelligence features of SharePoint Server 2007 and can be integrated with other features and components of the Microsoft 2007 Office system. Windows Desktop Search enables users of RedPrairie's systems to quickly and easily find what they are looking for and take action on those results from the familiar Windows desktop interface.
Milwaukee-based RedPrairie is a consumer-driven optimization company built on a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Its E2e solutions synchronize people and products throughout the customer buying cycle to ensure goods reach the right place at the right time. At the point of sale, this means consumers have access to desired products and that the store is staffed with the right people to help them make their purchases. In the production cycle, it means suppliers and manufacturers time and synchronize shipments and production based on demand signals from the retailer. And in the back room of the store, it means having the least amount of inventory, solving what it calls the last yard problem of the retail supply chain.
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