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There was a great atmosphere at Dr. Thompson's Seifenfabrik in Düsseldorf last night: IT managers from leading retail companies such as Colruyt, dm Drogeriemarkt, Edeka, Lidl, MediaMarktSaturn, Migros, Takko Fashion, Woolworths and many more celebrated together with their technology partners. EHI Retail Institute has selected the winners of the 18th Retail Technology Awards.

The eleventh largest textile retail company in Germany is pulling the plug on its SAP Retail project after a runtime of over 10 years: At the end of last year, Peek&Cloppenburg Düsseldorf decided to replace SAP completely with solutions from Oracle. The project to implement Oracle Retail as merchandise management system has already begun.

Canada's largest alcoholic beverage retailer, Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO), has selected GK Software's Cloud4Retail solution as part of its multi-year Future State Modernisation (FSM) transformation programme.

‘Aus Aldi Süd's IT wird Aldi DX, sonst ändert sich nix’, German speakers might say, referring to the old advertising slogan of the brand manufacturer Mars. And indeed, the new brand Aldi DX for Aldi Süd's IT, together with the slogan “Driving digital value”, primarily seeks to make the discounter giant more attractive to job applicants. But that's not all:…

dm will deploy forecasting and replenishment software from Relex across Europe in future. Since the end of 2021, the drugstore operator has been planning product ranges and shelves store specifically with solutions from the Finnish technology provider.

Hornbach is implementing AI-based forecasting and replenishment solutions from Relex across Europe. With the platform from the Finnish software provider, the DIY store operator is replacing SAP's F&R Engine.

Aldi Süd has agreed a multi-year collaboration with professional services provider Genpact in the USA and Australia. In these countries, the discounter is piloting the introduction of its new, predominantly SAP-based technology landscape under the project name Ahead.

VF Corporation, parent company of brands such as The North Face, has improved its in-store processes with smartphone apps powered by Scandit and SAP Fiori. The solution integrated Scandit's barcode scanning software and was built with SAP’s app toolbox Fiori.

Using Bayard's Byrd technology, the Douglas Group has optimised its master data procurement consistently across its bricks and mortar and e-commerce businesses. The solution enables Europe's leading omnichannel premium beauty provider to carry out automated quality checks of product content from its suppliers.

In one of the largest technology projects in Europe, Aldi Nord has built a completely new SAP-based merchandise management IT system in the cloud under the decisive influence of Accenture consultants. However, the conversion of the first pilot region was anything but a success: the inventory record in the system no longer worked in the Dutch region Culemborg, resulting in…