Quickborn sponsors Oracle Retail CrossTalk 2013 Chicago 25 – 27 June

Quickborn Consulting sponsors the Oracle Retail CrossTalk Conference to be held in Chicago (IL) between the 25th and 27th of June, 2013, an exclusive gathering of 200+ retail CIO/CTOs as they share insights, innovations, lessons learned and strategic vision. This executive community is comprised of business and IT leaders from the most innovative retailers in the world. This year at the Oracle Retail CrossTalk Conference, discussions will focus on strategies driving profitable growth through commerce anywhere by leveraging the Oracle Retail Platform to deliver on retailers’ brand promise. As GOLD sponsor of the Oracle Retail CrossTalk 2013, Quickborn Consulting will be at the event sharing insights to driving successful Oracle Retail merchandising, stores, planning and optimization solution implementation projects. During the event, Quickborn Consulting sponsors its customer – Mexx – keynote session: “Markdown Optimization at MEXX – Improving Profitability and Performanceby Hans Hornemann, Senior Vice President Retail, Mexx, focusing on the key highlights and learnings of their successful Markdown/Clearance optimization solution implementation project. Mexx has also been nominated for the Oracle Retail Excellence Award for Business Performance. Quickborn will host an Affinity Table around the topic: “Fashion Retail Accelerated: Maximizing Profitability over the Entire Product Lifecycle” focusing on how to optimize the product lifecycle and value chain and to leverage Oracle Retail applications running fashion retailing -specific processes —including merchandising, planning, store operations, and supply chain management— for maximized profitability and optimized operations. Oracle Retail CrossTalk provides executive-level networking that affords time to talk with other retail leaders, combined with educational sessions, designed to help to better leverage retailers’ investment in Oracle solutions. 95% of the content of the education sessions is delivered by Oracle Retail customers from all around the world. For more information or invite, please visit the Oracle Retail CrossTalk website https://www.oraclecrosstalk.com/ or contact marketing@www.qbcs.com. Plan, Execute, Analyse, Optimize with Oracle solutions. We implement and integrate it all for you. Quickborn Consulting – Your Retail Partner. Make sure not to miss the Mexx Breakout Session on Wednesday, June 26: MEXX: Clearance Optimization – Improving Profitability and Performance (Case Study) Session description: Mexx needed a solution to help better manage markdown spend and increase overall profitability by taking markdowns in a more timely, systematic and analytical manner. Mexx –with Quickborn Consulting as implementation partner– deployed Oracle Retail Clearance Optimization Engine at its retail stores in Germany, Netherlands and Belgium –accounting for some 80% of Mexx Retail revenues– in a record time of 4 months. Mexx is already seeing an improvement in performance in terms of increases in product turnover, margins and profitability, witnessed with FallWinter 12 Collection as the first to be completed using the tool. Mexx Europe has subsequently rolled out Oracle Retail Clearance Optimization Engine to all of its stores and formats (countries). Following the successful solution implementation at Mexx European locations, the solution was also implemented at Mexx Canada retail stores. Make sure not to miss the Mexx Breakout Session on Wednesday, June 26: MEXX: Clearance Optimization – Improving Profitability and Performance (Case Study) Session description: Mexx needed a solution to help better manage markdown spend and increase overall profitability by taking markdowns in a more timely, systematic and analytical manner. Mexx –with Quickborn Consulting as implementation partner– deployed Oracle Retail Clearance Optimization Engine at its retail stores in Germany, Netherlands and Belgium –accounting for some 80% of Mexx Retail revenues– in a record time of 4 months. Mexx is already seeing an improvement in performance in terms of increases in product turnover, margins and profitability, witnessed with FallWinter 12 Collection as the first to be completed using the tool. Mexx Europe has subsequently rolled out Oracle Retail Clearance Optimization Engine to all of its stores and formats (countries). Following the successful solution implementation at Mexx European locations, the solution was also implemented at Mexx Canada retail stores.