KORUS Consulting and COMARCH (Poland) consortium has gained the right to render services of EDI (Electronic Documents Interchange) within ECR (Effective Consumer Response) international initiative.

Consortium will provide efficient and correct documents interchange Ц orders, stock reports, catalogs etc. Ц between retail networks and vendors regardless of informational system they use. A number of companies have already shown their interest in EDI service. Now all largest retail networks in Russia - Kopeika, Lenta, Pyaterochka, Sedmoi Continent, Marktkauf, METRO, and a number of vendors and manufacturers Ц Wimm Bill Dann, Coca-Cola, Gillette, Johnson&Johnson, Nestle Foods, Procter&Gamble, Unilever and others - are members of ECR.

COMARCH will present ECOD technological platform adapted for Russian conditions which is based on Microsoft BizTalk, and KORUS Consulting will deal with customer support and all project tasks related to EDI. As Vice President of COMARCH Pawel Pczewezlikowski says, today market demands companies to be open for their customers and counteragents. That is why reducing of time expenses and hightening quality of communications between all participants of the market gives the considerable effect. Partner manager of KORUS Consulting Dmitry Slinkov says that many Russian trade networks the company works with have already shown their interest for such services in conditions of rapid growth of retail trading. He also hopes that the company's great experience in implementing regular management technologies will help creating the service which Russian market expects.

The main benefit which companies get when using EDI is the optimization of products and services range management leading to reducing of expenses for using store and shop floors. Defining optimal product supply helps reaching the main ECR goal Ц to increase profit of retail and wholesale companies and also vendors and manufacturers, and to satisfy customers' needs.

EDI unites automated systems of vendors and retailers by using the standards of electronic data exchange developed by EAN International. This time the largest wholesale and retail networks in the world - Wal-Mart, Tesco, Carrefour etc. and leading manufacturers and vendors are founding their work on ECR principles. All the companies notice that material and time expenses for shipping, storing, keeping goods and materials are cut and profit is increasing.

This time there 5 regional agencies developing ECR initiative - in USA, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia-Asia Forum.

COMARCH is EDI international service provider supporting exchange of millions electronic bills, orders, stock reports etc. between largest retail networks such as Carrefour, Auchan, Metro, Ahold, Jeronimo Martins or Shell, BP and more than 3 thousand manufacturers and vendors among which are Coca Cola, Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Sony and many others. The service unites not only Polish companies but also their partners in Czechia, Germany and Lithuania. With COMASCH platform more than 3 million trade documents per month are transferred.

KORUS Consulting is Gold Certified Microsoft Business Solutions Partner. KORUS Consulting is also the official representative in CIS and Baltia and Platinum Certified Consulting partner of Geac (Comshare Inc.). KORUS Consulting specializes in implementing of regular management technologies. Among its clients are Paterson network, O'Kay hypermarket network, DIXIS communications facilities network, Technoshock network, and Svyazinvest, Severstaltrans, Moldavsky Metallurgichesky Zavod, Pervouralsky Novotrubny Zavod, Solikamsky Magnievy Zavod, Akrikhin Chemical Pharmaceutical Factory, KMB Bank and others.