THE CHALLENGE
Kiabi, France's leading clothing retailer, is ahead of the game when it comes to second-hand clothing!
Kiabi has strong ambitions in this area, with 150 points of sale currently offering a panel of 1,500 second-hand items to KIABI customers, 300 points of sale by the end of 2023 and 500 planned by the end of 2025.
In order to guarantee a flawless supply to its points of sale and to manage its stock, Kiabi wanted to equip itself with a high-performance tool, hyper-adapted to this new business process and which frees its teams from all Excel handling.
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KIABI chose ALLKEYME for its ability to perfectly match business processes and implement the complex management rules in place in the Excel files used to launch this new activity.
Time-to-market requirements are also a key criterion: less than 2 months for production use of the new application.
Sébastien Delporte, CDG Innovation leader: "AllKeyMe makes us forget all about Excel management and its endless hours of work. With AllKeyMe, the hours wasted building and maintaining an Excel spreadsheet are a thing of the past, and I can now invest my time in managing my business and optimizing performance."
THE CHALLENGE
Two months to move from Excel-based management to a complete customized online tool incorporating all the management rules fine-tuned over the last two years ...
Mission accomplished by the KIABI and ALLKEYME teams!
CAPITAL GAINS
Hours of "Excel" work (copying data, checking) eliminated
Orders generated instantly, instead of hours of Excel calculations
Automated special cases (e.g. blocking store restocking, on a one-off or scheduled basis)
A central screen (the "Cockpit") for immediate verification of the impact of parameter changes and validation of restocking calculations.
AllKeyme also offers ideal scalability and real business support during and after the project.
Jeremy HALLE, Shopping into the future project leader: "The implementation of our stock management tool with AllKeyMe was a real success, firstly for the solution's ergonomics and processing speed, and secondly for the ALLKEYME team, who listened to us, took our needs into account, exchanged ideas and shared a lot in both directions. A true "win/win" relationship
THE PROJECT
The project was classically divided into 3 phases:
Phase 1 - Scoping: in 2 weeks, on the basis of existing flows and Excel files and discussions with the Kiabi team, all the management rules and business processes were identified and formalized.
Phase 2 - The realization: 3 iterations of 2 weeks each allowed the realization of the solution.
ALLKEYME's NoCode, flexibility and standard capabilities enabled this speed of realization, as well as the adjustment of management rules and the creation of new screens on demand, as construction progressed.
The application covers the entire perimeter:
- Automatic integration of sales and inventory data
- Create and modify master data by import or via screens, whether for repositories (stores, items, hierarchies, etc.), target stock calculation parameters or assortment lifecycle data.
- Multi-stage generation and automatic dispatch of store restocking orders.
Phase 3 - Start-up: from the start of production, over a 3-week period, store restocking orders were generated by AllKeyMe in parallel with the Excels files, until the Kiabi team was fully confident.
THE BALANCE SHEET
A "classically" developed solution would have taken between 8 and 10 months ==> implementation time divided by 4 to 5
A tool perfectly adapted to a new process (second-hand) created in two months, a frictionless project with real business exchanges.
François Hild, Circularity Innovation Project Leader: "The Wizeoo team was agile, responsive and solution-oriented during the design phase."
