RIMI Data Pool project

25.03.2014

Zane Siliņa, Rimi Baltic

Agenda

1. New product data exchange today

2. Data Pool – what it is?

3. Expected benefits

4. Pilot project scope and participants

5. Supplier feedback

6. Conclusions and next steps

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New product data exchange today...

70 data fields for each new product

Different excel template for each retailer

Data filled and processed manually - errors and mistakes very common

Data Pool – what it is?

• Centralized database where product information (masterdata) is stored in a standardized way with common industry rules and standards

• Suppliers upload product data and retailers download it from the data pool

• Used by ≈27 000 trading partners in more than 20 countries around the world

Supplier

Supplier uploads item data to the data pool.

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Supplier Data Pool

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System validates data fields and sends feedback to the

supplier in case of incorrect data.

Retailer Data Pool

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Receives and accepts only accurate (validated) data from vendor’s data pool.

Retailer

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Item data is automatically transferred to retailer’s

internal ERP system.

May also use same data pool provider

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Expected Data Pool benefits • Improved data quality

• Shorter product time-to-market

• Less administrative work

• Improved communication

• Global export opportunities for Baltic

suppliers

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Rimi Data Pool pilot project

Participants

ESTONIA

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Categories/products: • Fresh - Dairy • Fresh – Meat • Frozen • Dry • Nonfood & Nearfood

LATVIA Categories/products: • Fresh - Dairy • Fresh – Meat • Fruits & Vegetables • Candies • Nearfood • Frozen

LITHUANIA Categories/products: • Fresh - Dairy • Dry • Beer • Nonfood & Nearfood

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Supplier feedback

GDS Data Pool can...

Would you recommend data pool to other suppliers?

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Supplier feedback

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Source: CapGemini, GCI ‘Global Data Synchronisation At Work in the Real World . Illustrating the Business Benefits’, 2005

Conclusions and Next steps

• Data Pool can deliver the expected benefits BUT it requires strong commitment from both retailers and suppliers (critical mass)

• System ‘fine-tuning’ required – mandatory Baltic market data attributes and additional data validations to be added

Next steps Finalize internal Rimi system developments – preconditions for

establishing connection

Expected connection in Q3/Q4 2014

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Data exchange today and tomorrow...

Source: CapGemini Ernst & Young ‘The Case for Global Standards. Creating the Business Case for Global Data Synchronisation in Your Company’, 2002

THANK YOU!

Zane Siliņa Rimi Baltic Group (371) 26 422 903

Zane.Silina@rimibaltic.com