Business process management is making the cash registers ring at Famsa, a leading retailer of household appliances, furniture, clothing, and other products. Savvion, the industry’s leading business process management (BPM) company announced that Famsa, a leading retailer in Mexico and the United States is using Savvion BusinessManager 7.0 to ensure that new stores open smoothly and are well-stocked – just in time for the upcoming holiday shopping rush.
Savvion BusinessManager 7.0 helps Famsa monitor its finance process from start-to-finish so construction costs stay within budget and vendors are paid on time, avoiding costly delays. Business process management from Savvion will ultimately enable Famsa to open and stock stores in half the time that it took before BPM.
Famsa is a retail furniture, clothing, home appliance and electronics store with more than 382 locations in Texas, California, Nevada, Arizona, and Mexico. With more than $1 billion in annual sales, and new stores opening across Mexico and United States every month, Famsa knew it needed a way to make sure the stores were opening on time, within budget, and with the proper items in stock and ready for purchase.
Famsa deployed Savvion BusinessManager 7.0, the easiest way for organizations to drive business process innovation by giving everyone the ability to rapidly create and optimize process-driven solutions and flexible interfaces to manage daily work efficiently.
“We particularly liked of the robustness the product, as well as the ease-of-use and graphical interface of Savvion BusinessManager 7.0,” said Oscar Recio, CIO of Famsa. “We are also pleased with Savvion’s commitment to not only our stores in the United States, but in Mexico as well. Latin America is a booming market and because Savvion has offices in Mexico, we knew they were committed to the region and our overall success in rolling out our first BPM solution".
In 2006, Savvion opened offices in Mexico to better serve its customer base in Latin America. New partnership agreements with both 5Acts, a leading Latin American reseller, and Modena Technologies, a primary investor of Patagonia Technologies, a leading a professional services company that creates and implements scalable and high added-value technological applications, have cemented Savvion’s leadership in the region.
“A key to retail success is optimizing the retail value chain to reduce costs and increase sales,” said Shawn Price, president and CEO of Savvion. “Savvion has the strategy, planning, and deployment expertise needed to optimize retail business processes. We welcome Famsa as one of our newest customers and are thrilled to see the region grow and adopt BPM for continued success.”
Grupo Famsa, S. A. B. de C. V., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the purchase and sale of various types of household appliances, furniture, clothing, and other consumer products in Mexico and the United States. It also designs and manufactures furniture that is sold in FAMSA stores; and distributes furniture and domestic appliances for Mexico’s small and medium-sized furniture stores.
The company sells its products to wholesale and retail customers through retail branches and wholesale warehouses. As of December 31, 2006, Grupo Famsa operated 322 stores in Mexico and 24 stores in the United States.
Savvion is the leading provider of business process management (BPM) software that improves business performance and reduces costs. Savvion has a proven track record of turning process improvement ideas into real-world solutions quickly, often in as few as 30 days, and delivering a return on investment as high as 300%. More than 300 global business enterprises, public service agencies, and systems integration firms, including 20 of the Fortune 100, use Savvion systems to manage their business.
