OREANDA-NEWS. January 10, 2008. In early winter SystemGroup Ukraine automated Ukraine's first hypermarket of European network Praktiker in the Donetsk region, in the city of Makeyevka. Hypermarket focused on the sale of building materials in a format DIY ("Do it yourself"), the company's press service reports. The total area is about 10 thousand square meters; the range has more than 40 thousand titles.

SystemGroup Ukraine automated hypermarket by the equipment of world brands: Cisco, Zebra, and Motorola. Experts of SystemGroup Ukraine delivered Wi-Fi Cisco equipment, and had a full installation of it. Coverage of Wi-Fi network allows automate business processes, facilitate inventory, receiving goods and significantly save time get more information about the product warehouse worker or on the composition of the order. Wi-Fi allows you not to use connecting cables and have high-speed access to information on all merchandise assortments, and also gives a huge advantage in speed of service for their customers.

For input of accounting products were offered Semi printers Z4M from the world manufacturer of printers for printing of bar code and consumables Zebra Technologies. Printers Z4M have proved as reliable printer with high rates of the print (254 mm/sec, 4000 labels per day).

Today, one of the latest innovations, the market retail Ukraine - Microkiosks successfully implemented worldwide network of retailers. Praktiker established micro kiosks MK-1200 by the Motorola company (Symbol). For ease of installation of the software, and further work with them, the model with touch screen option was chosen. To find out the price, the buyer of the goods should bring the good to the scanner and read bar code product. Within 1-2 seconds the information about the product and its value is displayed. At the time of the shares, or if the goods are sold at a discount, this information could also be displayed on the screen.

To ensure the smooth working of server equipment in hypermarket Praktiker was installed APC uninterruptible power supply - an automatic device which enables the connected equipment to work on the UPS batteries, even in the disconnection of electricity. Uninterruptible power supply APC has all active server hardware.

In the supermarket trade hall and connected to the warehouse data collection terminals Motorola MC 7090, which are equipped with a functional keypad embedded bar code scanner and the possibility of working with the Wi-Fi network. They are used for traffic information processing commodity-material values that have bar-coded identification. SystemGroup Ukraine received for Praktiker hypermarket the necessary permits of Ukrainian state radio control operating center. This permit allows the use of Wi-Fi coverage in the hypermarket for service automation processes.

Praktiker plans to launch another five to seven stores over 2008, two of which will be located in Kiev. The German network of hypermarkets construction Praktiker is one of the largest in Europe. Praktiker is the network has more than 400 hypermarkets on the sales of building materials in the Benelux countries and Eastern Europe.