Situation: Mydin Mohamed is one of the largest discount retailers in Malaysia with seventeen Mydin Wholesale Emporiums located across the nation. The stores draw shoppers by offering consistently low prices on a wide variety of products. The average store carries more than 170,000 items provided by approximately 3,000 suppliers. Mydin Mohamed faces several challenges as it purchases goods at the lowest prices possible. First, the headquarters purchasing department maintains negotiated pricing information in individual spreadsheets which makes information retrieval complex. Also, when the owners of those files aren’t available, no one has access to the negotiated prices…
Solution: As a participant in the Microsoft® Rapid Deployment Technology Adoption Program, Mydin Mohamed is partnering with atQuest Solution, a business and IT solution consultant, to deploy Microsoft Office Professional 2007 and Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server 2007. With Office SharePoint Server 2007, Mydin Mohamed will set up a centralized location for product pricing and discount information. The headquarters purchasing department will be able to efficiently update and manage a single copy of pricing data. With the ability to reference centrally negotiated pricing information when placing an order, branch purchasers will be sure to pay the lowest agreed upon prices to suppliers…
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