Elephant Pharm In California, USA, Selects Aladata G.O.L.D. To Meet Demands Of Growing Retail Drug Supply Chain

Published 8th February 2007

Aldata expands reach into mid-market sector with rapid implementation offering of G.O.L.D.; One-stop wellness stores improve supply chain visibility...

Aldata Solution, a leading provider of software solutions for the retail industry, today announced that Elephant Pharm, the leading one-stop wellness store and pharmacy, has chosen the Aldata G.O.L.D. Retail Supply Chain Suite for its stores. Elephant Pharm has licensed the G.O.L.D. Central and Shop modules to manage data and inventory as it expands to new locations in Northern California.
“As a store dedicated to wellness that encourages customers to make informed decisions about their individual health needs, Elephant Pharm is growing rapidly and we needed a system that could keep up,” said Tim Millen, VP of IT for Elephant Pharm. “Elephant carries customer assortments based on specific customer needs at each of our locations, ranging from medicines, books, health aids, produce, dairy, apparel, body care, cosmetics and grocery, and Aldata can handle anything we throw at it,” added Millen. “We are looking forward to improving our already outstanding customer service through the implementation of Aldata G.O.L.D.”

With the number of stores expanding quickly, including a new store opening in Walnut Creek, Calif., Elephant turned to Aldata for a centralized, real-time supply chain system that could grow with it. Aldata is delivering Elephant the Master Data Management, store inventory management and store replenishment applications by way of its Rapid Implementation (RI) Toolkit. Using the Aldata RI Toolkit’s auto-configuring questionnaires, data conversion tools, project management tools and techniques, Elephant will be able to realize G.O.L.D’s benefits quickly at the lowest possible risk.

“As an innovative retailer with a fresh approach to customer service and a unique and diverse inventory, Elephant Pharm will maintain a distinct advantage over its larger competitors by employing Aldata’s advanced technology,” said Neil Thall, CEO of Aldata Solution Inc. “With its implementation of Aldata G.O.L.D. Central and Shop, Elephant Pharm can uphold its unparalleled standards for inventory management and customer service across its existing stores and in each of the new stores as they open. In addition, Aldata’s work with Elephant Pharm demonstrates how our technology—a well known leading solution in the grocery industry that has been implemented in huge retailers as well as small ones—can be quickly, easily and successfully applied to any sized retailer.”