Southern Wine & Spirits of America Selects SKUforce for Managing Data in the Cloud

Distributor Elects Cloud Start up To Streamline Product Portfolio, Digital Assets and Supplier Data

SAN FRANCISCO, March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Southern Wine & Spirits of America, the nation's largest wine and spirits distributor with operations in 29 states, has selected SKUforce for supplier and product data across their Multi-Domain cloud repository. SKUforce is a Collaborative Cloud Platform that can be customized to fit the data management needs of companies like Southern Wine & Spirits who typically struggle to manage thousands of product SKUs and images in disparate systems and Excel spreadsheets.

"We were amazed that the web-based Collaborative Cloud Platform worked our way, as if we had built it in-house and it far exceeded our expectations," said Nitin Anand, Item Classification Manager for Southern Wine & Spirits of America Corporate Business Intelligence division. "SKUforce flawlessly created 120 mandatory and rich attributes by linking rich data from 1700 Suppliers, 5000 Brands, 75000 SKU's, 30000 images and documents all in 90 days. We are immediately collecting and collaborating on data over the cloud that is highly likely to improve our business processes and sales pipeline."

The SKUforce team built a custom platform for Southern Wine & Spirits of America that offered integrated digital asset management, business intelligence reports and easy to read metrics. SKUforce also designed an essential cascading hierarchical menu which is extremely valuable to the alcohol beverage industry. The SKUforce Collaborative Cloud Platform also allows for the browsing and searching of metadata as well as filters which is essential in helping wine subject matter experts and master sommeliers locate and code quickly their mandated rich attributes.

"We're honored to be selected by Southern Wine & Spirits of America because the Collaborative Cloud Platform truly brings a new level of data management efficiency that speeds their product time to market and reduces overhead all while maximizing their product channel reach," said Anand Ayyar, Partner at SKUforce. "SKUforce is designed for distributors and retailers like Southern Wine & Spirits of America who must gather, collaborate on and analyze data to streamline business processes. SKUforce fills the need to expand their sales and product strategy quickly by making supplier participation extremely easy."

About Southern Wine & Spirits of America

Southern Wine & Spirits of America, Inc. is the nation's largest wine and spirits distributor, with current operations in 29 states. The multi-state distributor currently operates in: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Kentucky, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia and West Virginia—as well as the additional seven states of Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Utah through the Southern-Odom/Spirits West partnership. Southern also holds operating licenses and permits in the three states of Indiana, Nebraska and Texas. On a national basis, Southern Wine & Spirits of America, Inc. employs more than 10,000 team members. For more information contact: http://www.southernwine.com/.

About SKUforce

SKUforce is a Collaborative Cloud Platform that gathers, collaborates and publishes all types of business and product data. SKUforce was designed for manufacturers, distributors, retailers and service vendors who desire a holistic cloud view of their data from a Global Repository that is easy to use, extensible and adapts to changing business requirements. The benefits of SKUforce's total Collaborative Cloud Platform include removing data complexity, creating reusable assets and enabling businesses to maximize existing investments. SKUforce was founded by industry veterans with many years of experience in MDM/PLM/ECM and enterprise connectivity. SKUforce is available as SaaS or as an on-premise solution. SKUforce has offices in San Francisco, Chicago and Delhi, India. For more information, please call (866) 443-2058.