Industry, Retailing & Services
GFI Informatique has long capitalised the technical and functional skills accumulated by the Industry, Retailing and Services division. This division is now one of the group's largest, with nearly 3,000 staff, of whom 1,500 in France and 800 in the Paris region.
In these highly competitive industries our customers all face similar issues and challenges: globalisation, liberalisation, consolidation, development of new products and services with ever-tighter lead times, rationalisation and outsourcing.
Against this backdrop, GFI offers specific solutions and products, tailored to the sector's needs:
- Industry: Automobile and Parts Manufacturers, Energy-Chemicals-Oil, Agri-food / consumer goods, Aerospace, Electronics
- Retailing: Mass Retailers, Mail Order companies, Retail outlets
- Transport: Passenger Transport, Transport and Logistics
- Services: Hotels / Tourism / Leisure, Business services, Facilities Management
GFI IRS: specific offerings
Evolving in tune with our customers' businesses, we constantly develop new products and services designed to optimise value creation through technologies and methods such as:
Third-party Application Deployment
Dedicated to the execution supply chain, this offer enables industrial, retail and logistics customers to roll out store and warehouse management solutions quickly and smoothly.
NMPOS: a multiplatform, multilingual, touchscreen POS payment solution
Marketed to retailers, this solution has already been implemented at all Chauss'Expo's outlets.
In-a-box third-party acceptance
Developed initially for retail clients looking for a very high level of responsiveness in their eBusiness strategies, this third-party applications acceptance offer for Internet/intranet sites is based on optimum flexibility in using resources.
Management of mobile workers
Developed around our time and activity management solutions, this product caters for passenger transport companies (airlines, urban and rail transport).
Transport back-office management
An end-to-end offer that covers opportunity appraisal, framework, integration and maintenance of back offices for transport companies and is based on ERP packages (SAP, ADONIX, etc.).
Documents management for the transport sector
We cater for outsourcing the design, development and maintenance of operational transport document management systems (picking list, delivery dockets, etc.)
GFI Industry, Retail and Services has also developed software solutions for:
- Automated travel pricing (Tourism)
- Warehouse management (Industry, Transport and Logistics)
- Fleet management and tracking (Industry, Transport and Logistics)
- Identification (barcodes, RFID, etc.)
- Supply chain management (MRP) (Industry)
- Management of private label and loyalty cards (Industry and Retail)
Constantly tuned to customers' needs, GFI's Industry, Retailing & Services division focuses on rigour, responsiveness and efficiency in its service offering. This is reflected in a deep sense of commitment and compliance at every level with Group quality guidelines and by the use of standardised procedures whose ongoing improvement is ensured through CMMI assessment.
Consulting, Engineering, Systems Integration, Outsourcing
With a "skill capital" built up over more than 20 years' experience in the industrial, retail and services sectors, GFI is a leading specialist IT service firms in these fields, which have become one of its key areas of excellence.
The Consulting division applies its knowledge and expertise to many fields, from needs analysis through to implementing solutions:
- Audit of existing systems, strategy consulting, functional upgrading of legacy applications.
- Information system architecture and mapping, migration.
- CRM, payment systems, loyalty schemes, etc.
- e-business, e-commerce (Internet).
- Business Intelligence, etc.
- Personal insurance, retirement, property and casualty insurance, etc.
- Security.
In addition to sector-specific expertise, GFI offers consulting, systems engineering and integration and outsourcing services based on GFI Informatique's traditional methods and expertise, notably in the following areas:
- Third-party applications maintenance.
- Third-party applications acceptance, in which GFI has developed top-level skills.
- Outsourcing and Systems Management for operating and/or hosting applications, computing centres and networks.
