Runners Point

The company

As a retailer for running clothes, RUNNERS POINT looks back on more than two decades of successful work. Founded in 1984 as a subsidiary of the current Karstadt Quelle Group, RUNNERS POINT has been a stable major company in the running market since the beginning of the running boom in Germany and has received many awards for its consumer advice and service quality.

Since 2005, the HANNOVER Finanz Group has been the new main owner; the managing directors of RUNNERS POINT Otto Hurler and Harald Wittig have a stake. Currently 120 branches in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands are managed and centrally supplied by the headquarters in Recklinghausen. RUNNERS POINT employs approximately 1000 employees.

After the Karstadt Quelle Group sold RUNNER POINT within the context of its restructuring, the company faced the task of remoulding its IT systems in all areas such as enterprise resource planning, warehouse management, personnel management and accounting. Right from the beginning the task for the potential supplier was to ensure a close integration of all company areas with the aim of creating an integrated solution.

We managed in record time what takes others years.

Thomas Brokop, Head of organisation

ERP

After researching the market and visiting similar users, RUNNERS POINT opted for FuturERS, the enterprise resource planning solution provided by Futura Retail Solution AG in Stelle near Hamburg. Thomas Brokop, organisation leader, regarding this: „FuturERS corresponds especially to our requirements for advanced procedures to control goods, from procurement planning through distribution mechanisms, stochastically calculated required quantities to special tools for automatic redistribution proposals.“

RUNNERS POINT remained convinced by the Workflow Solution offered by Futura which cause predefined actions to be triggered by certain events. If the purchasing limit is exceeded, for example, an email can automatically be sent to the management for the dispatch or rejection of an order.

The enterprise resource planning FuturERS is connected to the subsystems mentioned above via intelligent interfaces that synchronise necessary data. „For me the data integrity is of central significance from a controlling perspective. All interfaces have worked smoothly from day one. This aspect was my main concern“, explains manager, Harald Wittig.

In conclusion Thomas Brokop adds: “We took all branches onto the network on one weekend and by Monday at 11.00 hrs we could congratulate our locations for the successful change. The project shows: with consistent implementation an apparently impossible schedule can be realised. We managed in record time what takes others years. This was only possible due to our dedicated employees and Futura Retail AG’s professional project support.“

FuturERS corresponds especially to our requirements...

Thomas Brokop, Head of organisation

Benefits:

 Integration of the retail system via intelligent interfaces to existing sub-systems

 Import and export of information to and from other systems

 Set up of all branches within one weekend

 Redeployment of the IT across all areas: retail management, inventory, personnel management, accounting