Sprouts Selects Business-Intelligence Tool

PHOENIX — Sprouts Farmers Markets here has selected a reporting and analytics system from Manthan Systems, Scottsdale, Ariz., for greater understanding of product sales, store operations, labor, task management, inventory optimization and merchandising.

Manthan said its ARC enterprise business-intelligence (BI) platform provides analytical views and dashboards designed to identify trends and enhance the decision-making process.

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“Manthan Systems’ proven experience in retail business analytics aligns with our vision of arming our team with role-based, mobile and easy to consume information,” said Steve Black, chief information officer, Sprouts Farmers Market, in a statement. “With our exploding growth over the last couple of years, the top requirement that recently came out of our technology steering committee was a robust BI tool. Our entire team is thrilled to get this project live and looking forward to focusing primarily on the reaction to the data instead of gathering data.”