Overview Michael Brücken Kaufpark GmbH & Co OHG (Kaufpark) is a chain of grocery stores in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It has more than 120 retail outlets, employs around 5,000 peo- ple and posts annual sales of over €800 million. The chain has been a member of the REWE- DORTMUND Grosshandel eG group since 1978 and is part of the Europe-wide REWE trading group. Challenge Kaufpark’s IT landscape included a number of company-specific applications, including product range planning, ordering, pricing and marketing applications on an IBM mainframe. This was hosted by the REWE DORTMUND Grosshandel eG data centre. As a result of new market pressures and the demand for new business functionality, the existing business system had reached the limits of its capabili- ties, though

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