Strategic Investment to Better Serve Customers, Maximize Revenues Across
its More Than 600 Retail Locations
NEW YORK, Jan. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NRF 97th ANNUAL CONVENTION
& EXPO -- The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board (PLCB), an independent
government agency that regulates the beverage alcohol industry in
Pennsylvania, has enlisted Oracle(R) Retail applications, the Oracle
E-Business Suite and Oracle Fusion Middleware. The Oracle applications and
infrastructure software will help the PLCB more effectively manage purchase
orders and improve inventory management.
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As one of the largest purchasers of wine and spirits in North America,
the PLCB generates annual sales of more than $1.6 billion. The Board
operates some 630 Wine & Spirits stores across Pennsylvania, while also
affording customers significant discounts and savings.
"In addition to our continued efforts to promote the responsible
consumption of alcohol, we are focused on providing Pennsylvanians with a
superior retail experience in our Wine & Spirits stores," said Patrick
"P.J." Stapleton III, chairman of the PLCB. "We see a significant
opportunity to leverage Oracle's products to help deliver additional
revenue to the people of Pennsylvania and improve our services. The PLCB
understands that it can better serve its customers by taking a
retail-specific approach and leveraging industry best practices."
The PLCB's new Oracle platform will help integrate merchandising, sales
and inventory reporting, and category and financial management processes.
"We look forward to supporting the agency and putting our retail
expertise and enterprise technologies to work for them so that they can
infuse even more dollars back into the Pennsylvania economy and into the
hands of citizens," said Duncan Angove, General Manager and Senior Vice
President, Oracle Retail.
About Oracle Retail
Oracle is the number one provider of innovative and comprehensive
industry software solutions for retailers -- enabling organizations to
serve their customers better by applying insight into daily business
decisions for more profitable results. With software that provides supply
chain, operations, merchandising, store systems, optimization as well as
enterprise applications and infrastructure software, Oracle partners with
the world's leading retail companies, including 20 of the top 20 retailers
worldwide, to transform the economics of their businesses.
About Oracle
Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) is the world's largest enterprise software
company. For more information about Oracle, visit our Web site at
http://www.oracle.com.
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CONTACT:
Kevin Ruane of Oracle, +1-650-506-6610,
kevin.ruane@oracle.com; or Nick Hays of PLCB, +1-717-783-8864,
nhays@state.pa.us for Oracle
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