Case Study: JD Group (South African furniture retailer) accesses POS transaction data six times faster with SAP HANA

Accessing Transaction Data Six Times Faster with SAP Point-of-Sale by GK

JD Group, a leading South African furniture retailer with more than 1,200 stores and roughly 15,000 employees, needed to maintain service in low- or no-bandwidth conditions while getting a fast, holistic view of its point-of-sale (POS) environment to support growth and faster decision making.

By partnering with GK Software to deploy SAP Point-of-Sale and SAP HANA, JD Group accelerated POS data delivery sixfold (cutting full-data turnaround from 24 to 4 hours), rolled out the solution rapidly across stores, and enabled offline trading, QR-based checkout, and digital receipts/warranties—improving customer experience and operational responsiveness while planning further HANA migrations and full e-commerce–POS integration.

JD Group

Jan Breet

IT Executive in Charge of Stores and Business Intelligence