Women’s fashion – a high potential market
Aware of the fast changing market and always careful to stay at the competitive edge, Pimkie International put out an invitation to tender for the application maintenance (TPAM) of its SAP Finance platform. Operating in the principal countries in Europe (France, Spain, Italy and Germany), the clothing brand was looking for a technological partner able to provide a local response to its technical issues, at the same time enabling it to optimise its costs.
“To enable our teams to focus more closely on high added-value issues relating to our profession, we decided to entrust our application maintenance to a global player with facilities in the key regions of our market,” indicated Philippe CODEVILLE, Pimkie International’s Information System Manager.

Technical skills for local management of global processes
Sopra Group was selected for its expertise in the distribution sector, acquired through many years of experience, as well as for its expertise in SAP solutions. By choosing Sopra Group as reference partner, the brand will have the benefit of extensive expertise, guaranteeing a veritable ability to take remote action for all its sites and provide better support for users.
Located in the north of France in the heart of a region where many distribution brands are located, Pimkie International will also have the advantage of the close location of Sopra Group’s highly-industrialised SAP Service Centre in Lille, offering greater flexibility for its organisation.
“Sopra Group’s areas of competence have proved a perfect match for our technical needs. The idea is for us to have a partner that will enable us to pool our resources and manage our TPAM on a local level, at the same time integrating the notion of operating cost optimisation”, added Laurent GAQUIERE, who is in charge of SAP projects at Pimkie International. “The success of our historic partnership with Sopra Group also consolidated our choice”, he concluded.

About Sopra Group
A major player in consulting and IT services in Europe, Sopra Group obtained a total sales figure of 1,094 million euros in 2009 and has a human and intellectual potential of over 12,000 staff. Thanks to a historic culture of excellence and high sectoral, functional and technological expertise, the Group offers its customers a global approach backed by a proven industrial mechanism. Sopra Group's aim is to enable its customers to focus on transformation projects linked to their competitiveness and growth. The scope of its skills ranges from strategic upstream study to the management of major systems integration projects and application outsourcing. Moreover, through its subsidiary, Axway, the world leader in Business Interaction Networks with a complete range of solutions and services, the Group pursues the worldwide deployment of its application integration activity and technical process management.  For further information, visit our web site at www.sopragroup.com.