Wilcon Builders Depot leverages BI solutions from Manthan Systems

MANILA, Philippines – Manthan Systems, a leading provider of retail business intelligence and analytics software, has been selected by Wilcon Builders Depot, the largest building products retailer in the Philippines, to provide strategic BI solutions for the market-leading retailer.

Wilcon will leverage Manthan’s ARC brand of analytics solutions to create an end-to-end, data-driven and KPI-based decision environment that will help it streamline and better manage its expanding operations in the country.

“We are pleased that Wilcon has selected our game-changing analytics suite, ARC BI, to support their growing retail operations in the Philippines,” said Atul Jalan, CEO of Manthan Systems.

“We are confident that ARC’s advanced analytics capabilities will spur Wilcon’s growth plans and enable us to perform as per plan while surpassing our current track record on excellent customer service,” Jalan added.

The Philippine economy has been on a revival, fuelled by higher consumer spend, sustained investments in organized retail, increasing remittances from overseas Filipino workers and growth in key sectors of the construction industry.

“Wilcon has revolutionized the concept of shopping for construction materials through air-conditioned convenience stores and solid commitment to excellent service,” said Rosemarie Ong, vice president for retail operations of Wilcon.

“Our growing chain of over 30-plus multi-format stores with its increasing business complexity called for better planning backed by advanced business intelligence support. Manthan’s ARC seems tailor-made for Wilcon’s business requirements because of its retail-specific architecture, wide range of preconfigured KPIs and metrics and its neat, compact and easy-to-use functionality,” Ong said.

“Nearly 80 percent of ARC’s pre-built, retail-specific reports seem perfectly suited for our organization’s needs requiring no further customizations. We feel that the solution’s built-in flexibility a great value-add that can help us in the creation of a wide range of ad-hoc reports and dashboards required in our business,” she added.

Manthan has been a key player in the Philippine retail industry in the past few years, having had early success in pioneering the retail-specific business intelligence market.

Leading retail groups such as the SM Retail Group, the Robinsons Retail Group/Mini Stop, Abenson/Waltermart, Puregold and well-known regional supermarket and department chains like Metro Gaisano and Liberty Commercial Center have been empowered by analytics-driven decision support, overall efficiencies and profitability increases from Manthan’s technology solutions.

“Retailers are looking to business intelligence solutions to best understand operational performance in various aspects of their organization, including sales, merchandising, inventory optimization, assortment, pricing, promotions, loss prevention and vendor management. Getting timely and accurate analytics in these areas allow retailer to drive optimum profitability and customer-share in today’s tough economic climate and ultra-competitive environment,” said Cherokee Chamorro, Manthan country manager for the Philippines.

“With Manthan’s ARC business intelligence solution, successful retailers like Wilcon Builders can leverage a proven solution that is retail-specific, scalable and comprehensive with hundreds of pre-built reports and KPIs, which can be deployed in only three to four months. We look forward to being Wilcon’s strategic partner in its business intelligence initiatives over the long-term,” he said.