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CIO at Trinity Mirror Tony Pusey has spent the last few years refitting the company's IT for it to compete in the digital media world. Looking back at his career, transformation has been at the core of his capabilities. At Accenture in the mid-1980s he worked with many of the leading banking, media and retail organisations in the UK managing implementation programmes around a change agenda.
After 10 years at Accenture, he left to start his own software company which specialised in CRM systems before Siebel or Salesforce were household names, eventually selling the company on to a bigger US supplier.
Retail challenge
In the mid-1990s Pusey was recruited to retail organisation Storehouse Group, which owned the British Home Stores (BHS), Mothercare and Habitat chains.
The company was bogged down in an outsourcing agreement with CSC that was preventing it from achieving the innovations necessary to move with consumer trends.
Pusey ironed out the outsourcing problems and went on to revamp the retailer’s supply chain system over the web during the next three years.
Pusey implemented a web-based collaboration application – better known today as an extranet – that allowed much closer contact between the retailer and its apparel suppliers.
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Pusey maintains that the system cut ordering times down from 30 weeks to six.
“You cut your lead times for ordering drastically by collaborating with suppliers over the internet and maybe you would optimise the sale based on colour and size patterns,” he explains.
“Previously you had to order 30 weeks ahead. We could optimise the product when it was already in the stores because the fashion season is only about 12 weeks. Nobody was doing anything like it so was pretty innovative technology.”
After some three years at Storehouse, the company was taken over by billionaire retail tycoon Philip Green.
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