05/02/2010
By Scott Thompson
The Garden Centre Group has upgraded its existing mobile stock control infrastructure with an enterprise mobility platform from Codegate.
The new solution has been rolled out across the company's 121 UK retail outlets and runs on Motorola MC3090 rugged hand held terminals.
"Our existing stock control infrastructure needed to be updated. Our legacy hardware had served us well but was becoming costly to maintain and repair, and no longer provided the memory capacity to store our large product files," says Sophie Vyse, project manager, store systems at The Garden Centre Group. "It was time for a hardware refresh and this gave us the opportunity to leverage the latest enterprise mobility technology and enhance the functionality of our existing stock control software."
Codegate was chosen from a list of eight other possible suppliers. "Having written the existing stock control application some time ago, their development team has a proven track record of success with us and has existing knowledge and experience of our business processes. This understanding allowed Codegate to migrate a lot of our existing functionality to the new solution, importantly reducing the need for the re-training of our users," explains Chris Thomas, IT business analyst at The Garden Centre Group.
