{"id":2377,"date":"2020-07-29T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T12:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/retail-optimiser.de\/zebra-strengthens-its-software-competence-with-acquisition-of-reflexis\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T16:54:27","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T14:54:27","slug":"zebra-strengthens-its-software-competence-with-acquisition-of-reflexis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/retail-optimiser.de\/en\/zebra-strengthens-its-software-competence-with-acquisition-of-reflexis\/","title":{"rendered":"Zebra strengthens its software competence with acquisition of Reflexis"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2377\" class=\"elementor elementor-2377 elementor-2367\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-f6e02af elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"f6e02af\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b6bb751\" data-id=\"b6bb751\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-176fbaa elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"176fbaa\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Times are tough for technology companies that equip retailers with hardware deployed in stores. Especially for the specialists for handheld devices. Many retailers started to deploy significant cheaper devices produced for the consumers market, packed in shock-resistant cases in the hand of their employees. Also scanners, printers, POS hardware and electronic price labels are more and more sourced directly by retailers from generic manufacturers in Asia than form retail specialists.<\/p><p>There seems to be only one way out of the downward spiral for the margins of suppliers of instore hardware: Retail technology companies need to generate a significant part of their business from software. Especially, because hardware is much easier to replace as software, as it is predominantly the software that decides about the efficiency of the processes in retail stores and only rarely the hardware.<\/p><p>Zebra Technologies has understood and has built a software partner network of highly relevant retail process optimisation tools. Now it plans to even acquire one of its partners, for 575 million US-Dollars (489 million Euros): the retail workforce and task management software specialist Reflexis. The deal is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approval. And it is expected to close by early in this year\u2019s fourth quarter.<\/p><h3><strong>Coop Switzerland works happily with Reflexis<\/strong><\/h3><p>One of the many retail companies that use solutions from Zebra and Reflexis and one of the Reflexis\u2019 first retail clients in Europe is Coop Switzerland. August Harder, CIO of the Swiss retail group, praises the Reflexis solution as a massive achievement to streamline and optimise the complex task management of Coop\u2019s multi-level and multi-format organisation: \u201cThe stores work efficiently due to the uniformly structured information and save time in handling the tasks set by headquarters and the regions&#8221;. Reflexis provides store associates at a single place on a handheld device all assigned tasks from all levels of the organisation which can then be monitored for completion.<\/p><p>Reflexis is a portfolio company of the investors Great Hill Partners and Sageview Capital and achieved sales of approximately 66 million US-Dollars (56 million Euros) in 2019, doubling over a 3-year period with gross margin approximately 20 percentage points higher than Zebra.<\/p><p>Prashanth Palakurthi, Founder and CEO of Reflexis Systems, stated in a press release his consent to the deal: \u201cWe are pleased to join Zebra and help build its strong position in retail with our compelling, differentiated worker efficiency solution. We look forward to applying our expertise in directing associate activity to more profitable execution for customers while helping provide greater meaning to an associate\u2019s workday.\u201d<\/p><p>Already in late 2017, Reflexis Systems had been selected as one of five companies globally to participate in the early adopter program for Zebra Technologies\u2019 software platform initiative, called Savanna.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-b8ee93c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"b8ee93c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1bd0791\" data-id=\"1bd0791\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f4cd30a elementor-widget elementor-widget-video\" data-id=\"f4cd30a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;youtube_url&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/watch?v=fnNUukXhSQI&quot;,&quot;video_type&quot;:&quot;youtube&quot;,&quot;controls&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"video.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-wrapper elementor-open-inline\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-video\"><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3e27d11 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3e27d11\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-908d1d1\" data-id=\"908d1d1\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2bbe2d0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2bbe2d0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><em>(Video in German.)<\/em><br \/>\n<em>August Harder, CIO of Coop Switzerland, praises the Reflexis solution for its contribution to optimising the complex task management in the multi-level organisation of Coop. 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