Hiller's Markets Select TCI Retail for E-Biz and More

TUCSON, Ariz. - TCI Solutions Inc., a provider of enterprise software for grocery chains, announced that Hiller's has installed TCI HQ in its corporate headquarters to enhance e-business interactions with its vendor community. It will serve as the foundation enterprise for data management, pricing and hosting requirements for the Detroit-based retailer.

Hiller's Markets, founded in 1941, is known for its wide selection of unique gourmet, imported and specialty food items including kosher, organic and ethnic. An extensive array of products is available to customers though the chain's wine and cheese club. Family-owned Hiller's joins more than 30 other retail chains already reaping the benefits of TCI Retail.

"Using a central data repository and rules-based application has helped our chain to simplify business processes and reduce data redundancies or inaccuracies to better manage our item prices and costs," said Eva Shapiro, chief financial officer, Hiller's Markets. "TCI's solution allows us to quickly enact new pricing programs to help better serve our customers."

Hiller's is implementing several additional TCI modules. The Perpetual Inventory module tracks product movement and provides actual hands-on quantities for an item or groups of items at any point in time. In combination with TCI's DSD module, this can empower the chain to easily review store-level inventories and quickly react to low stock items.

Hiller's is also controlling item data updates to its stores POS systems using TCI's Store Interface Manager and POS eXchange software. This application will allow Hiller's to maintain
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