Case Study: Etos achieves 50% operational cost reduction and real-time retail visibility with Redwood Software (RunMyJobs)

Etos's end-to-end retail automation improves visibility and lowers costs

Etos B.V., a major European health and cosmetics retailer with 430 stores (many franchised), needed IT to support its retail strategy when it migrated from AIX to a Linux environment. The company’s existing job scheduler wouldn’t integrate with Linux, and Etos required a flexible, scalable automation solution that could support fast-changing business decisions and integrate back-office systems like Progress and Oracle.

Etos implemented Redwood RunMyJobs to coordinate end-to-end, event-driven processes from point-of-sale through electronic data interchange, enabling store-level tailoring, faster replenishment, and near real-time sales reporting. The move improved process control and visibility, removed redundancies, simplified load balancing and error checking, and resulted in a 50% reduction in operational costs—savings that more than covered the migration.

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Louis Klos

Linux Specialist