KORUS Consulting has begun implementing mobile wireless technologies in O'Kay hypermarket network. Realization of this project will allow to reduce working expenses of the personnel in customer service and purchase operations. This implementation will also allow to make goods information more actual. Portable radio terminals for the employees will provide access to the central database and the necessary set of functions of Axapta Retail. With this device they will be able to receive information concerning goods on-hand, stock quantities, purchase order volumes and prices.

Mobile technologies implementation has become real due to extending functionality of Axapta Retail industry solution which is used by O'Kay for a long time. An additional module for mobile devices control has been developed by Next Innovations company. Symbol PDT 8100 is used as moblie terminal. It has Intel StrongARM 206 MHz processor, 64 Mb RAM and 32 Mb ROM, IrDA port, Compact Flash slot and flash memory card. As O'Kay IT director Nikolay Zatravin says, technologies like that were used before but after the new module has been developed within Axapta Retail it was decided to integrate modern technologies of data gaining and full-functional trading network control system.

This project is the new step in relations between O'Kay hypermarket network and KORUS Consulting company. Before that the companies have realized the project for implementation of Axapta Retail industry solution for retail networks. The long time partnership has the background of successful realization by KORUS Consulting of previous stages of implementation of regular management technologies. As KORUS Consulting Retail direction head Alexander Rakhmanov says, O'Kay network staff is aimed at modern technologies development which greatly contributes success of the project.

O'Kay hypermarket network includes three shops situated in St.-Petersburg. Their total square is 45 thousand sq. meters. O'Kay shops offer up to 35 thousand articles: food, clothes, consumer electronics and so on. The first hypermarket under this trade mark was opened in May 2002. It is planned to increase the number of hypermarkets to 10 til 2007. O'Kay hypermarkets are to be opened in other regions of Russia.

KORUS Consulting is Gold Certified Microsoft Business Solutions Partner. KORUS Consulting is also the official representative and Platinum Certified Consulting partner of Geac (Comshare Inc.). KORUS Consulting specializes in implementing of regular management technologies. Among its clients are DIXIS communications hardware network, Technoshock consumer electronics network, Paterson network, Etna, the leading importer of Italian ceramic plates, and Svyazinvest, Severstaltrans, Moldavsky Metallurgichesky Zavod, Pervouralsky Novotrubny Zavod, Akrikhin Chemical Pharmaceutical Factory, KMB Bank and others.