Kirkland’s, a leading specialty department store retailer of home décor in the United States, who has partnered with Quickborn for support of the Oracle Retail Platform has now also initiated support for Oracle Retail’s Merchandise Financial Planning, Assortment Planning and Item Planning solutions. Kirkland’s started support with Quickborn on Oracle Merchandising solutions Retail Merchandising System, Retail Price Management, Retail Sales Audit, and Allocations after their go live in October 2012.
Quickborn has been involved with Kirkland’s to enhance the Oracle Retail Planning applications over the course of the last year. Quickborn has been providing business processes suggestions, such as the best practice management of carryover items, as well as making changes to the configuration and the infrastructure to implement those suggestions. Quickborn has also been providing enhancements designed to accelerate the performance of the applications.
Quickborn has previously been supporting Kirkland’s in integrating Oracle Retail Merchandising System and other Enterprise Resource Planning applications and legacy systems via the Oracle Retail Integration Bus. Quickborn also provides 24/7 systems monitoring, incident detection and recovery support services for the entire set of Oracle Retail Applications in production at Kirkland’s and providing system fixes and enhancements including performance enhancements.
“We chose Quickborn Consulting because they have extensive experience and proven expertise in implementing and integrating Oracle Retail applications. Quickborn’s approach to partnering is an important factor, they provide us with what we need and when we need it” said Robert Kagenski, Director of Business Applications of Kirkland’s.
“We are thrilled about the opportunity to work with Kirkland’s on their Oracle Retail Planning solutions implementation project. We have been were working in close collaboration with Kirkland’s for several years ensuring the reliability and performance of their Oracle Retail applications in place and providing specific Oracle Retail functional and technical expertise. This contract illustrates Kirkland’s confidence in our expertise and capabilities as a trusted integrator partner for Oracle Retail.” said Gabor Tozser, Founder and President of Quickborn Consulting.
About Kirkland’s Inc.:
Kirkland’s is a leading specialty retailer in the United States with over 320 stores occupying 35 states and consistently growing. Kirkland’s was co-founded in 1966 by current Chairman Emeritus, Carl Kirkland when the first store was opened in Jackson, Tennessee. Kirkland’s stores present a broad selection of distinctive merchandise, including framed art, mirrors, candles, lamps, picture frames, accent rugs, garden accessories and artificial floral products, and also an extensive assortment of holiday merchandise and gifts. Read more about Kirkland’s at: www.kirklands.com
