Footwear Retailer Transforms Reporting Process with Spreadsheet Server

Challenge

Rack Room Shoes was caught in a very inflexible, unreliable and time consuming reporting situation. Every report they ran would have to be saved in Excel, reformatted and redistributed, losing every formula each time. Rack Room Shoes was looking for a reporting solution that could handle more of their “on the fly” needs. They required a program that could continuously be reviewed throughout the closing process as they made journal entries.

Solution

The team found Excel-based reporting to be the ideal option, so Spreadsheet Server was a seamless transition and a much more productive process.

• Implementation and training completed within hours for intuitive, user-friendly products
• Increased accuracy and flexibility for on-the-fly reporting
• Report generation process transformed from a manual, time-consuming task to fast automation

Rack Room Shoes uses Spreadsheet Server for all monthly reports including: PNL, balance sheets, budget, expenses, ad hoc analysis and distribution. Global’s Spreadsheet Server for use with Oracle® allows them to have better access to their data in a more timely and efficient manner. Rather than having to put daily tasks on the back burner during month-end reporting, they are now able to make changes, edits and entries simultaneously. Since the formulas no longer have to be re-input with every change, the data integrity is much more reliable and it’s clear where the numbers are coming from.