Home Retail Selects Core Solutions to Streamline Global Sourcing

27 March 2008, Hong Kong - Core Solutions, the leader of global sourcing, order management and supply chain collaboration solutions, today announced they will be working with Home Retail Group, the UK’s leading home and general merchandise retailer.

Home Retail Group’s direct sourcing operation, which started in 2001, now provides products that account for a large percentage of retail sales.

“Developing an efficient sourcing and supply chain management capability is a key part of Home Retail Group’s strategy. Implementing CBX Merchant will enable our international team to work more cohesively” said Graham Kibby, Managing Director for Home Retail Asia. “We have gone through an extensive evaluation for this sourcing system and decided on CBX Merchant.”

CBX Merchant streamlines global sourcing and supply chain operations. All pertinent information – product, customer, vendor, project, material and component, costing, sample, order, quality, shipment and finance – are managed centrally. Across the office or across the globe, for each stage of the product lifecycle or each part of the supply chain, CBX Merchant ensures that everyone are on the same page and the system’s workflow tools track and automate a wide range of business processes.

“Global direct sourcing is a complex business that involves stakeholders in multiple organizations, disciplines and time-zones. To ensure successful implementation and user acceptance, the features of a global sourcing system must not only be functional, but equally important, they must be practical to overcome numerous global deployment issues,” said Michael Hung CEO of Core Solutions. “We take pride in helping our clients grow and delivering solutions that offers dramatic improvements.”

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About Home Retail

Home Retail Group is the UK’s leading home and general merchandise retailer with sales of over £5.8 billion in the last financial year. It sells products under two distinctive and complementary retail brands, Argos and Homebase. The Group employs some 53,000 people across the business. For more information, visit

About Core Solutions

Core Solutions is a leading provider of global sourcing and vendor collaboration solutions. With over a decade of experience in global sourcing and vendor collaboration, and offices in key locations around the world, Core Solutions is trusted by the world's most reputable names in retail, manufacturing, banking and logistics. Core's technologies, managed services and consulting services help trading partners streamline business transactions across organization boundaries and improve visibility throughout the global supply chain. For more information, visit

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