While known primarily as an office products retailer, Office Depot is broadening its business model to stay ahead of the competition while better addressing its customers, partners and employee’s needs. But making the transition out of just a products-based retailer to a services and subscription-based company meant Office Depot needed a unified business platform to support the anticipated growth and added complexity that its new business model required.
 
Office Depot chose Oracle Cloud Applications as the foundation for its HR, financial planning & analysis, and supply chain systems – mission-critical areas to its new business strategy.
 
In fact, the company was able to conduct their first go-lives this week across HCM, SCM, EPM, with supply chain cloud up and running in just 90 days. With this, the company was able to use the platform to uncover additional benefits not initially planned for, including initiating other new business models like service contracts to enable more subscription-based selling  – services that add to the company’s bottom line. Moving to the cloud also enabled significant cost savings and uncovering new opportunities leveraging data analytics that capitalize on emerging technologies like AI and machine learning.
 
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