In the quest for superior budget planning, textile discounter NKD opts for arcplan Edge

Since 1962, NKD has been synonymous with affordable clothing. The NKD Group dispatches 8 million pieces of merchandise per month to its 1,500 stores in Germany, Austria, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, and Switzerland. NKD’s rapid growth in recent years has led to the need for constant planning and analysis to ensure efficiency and profitability. NKD’s infrastructure had also become complex over the years.

The company urgently needed a new business intelligence system for budget planning that allowed

  • improved cost planning and budgeting as well as
  • cost reporting.

"arcplan Edge is the perfect tool for simplifying, speeding up, and improving the budgeting process. It wasn’t just the software that made the project a success. Everyone involved was so dedicated to streamlining our process, from our own employees to our implementation partner SkyTec to the arcplan team."

Jörg Hansen, Head of Strategic Reporting/Management Information Systems

Successful Planning and Budgeting

At this time around 40 managers in charge of planning work with arcplan Edge. In day-to-day-activities the solution delivers substantial benefits in 

  • Reporting - enhanced visualization, easy ad-hoc, Excel integration.
  • Planning - reporting, planning and Workflow in one user interface.
  • Data model - Easy addition of new dimensions and cubes.

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