Hollywood Super Markets implements centralized accounting system

Melville, N.Y. BRdata said Friday that Hollywood Super Markets has replaced its legacy back-end system with the BRdata Retail BOSS Host system, tying the grocer’s seven stores to a centralized corporate office.

The new system allows Hollywood to maintain all items and pricing information within a single repository, including back-door receipts from each individual store, streamlining processes and reducing the possibility of errors or conflicting data.

“Formerly, when a data error was generated at one of the store locations -- if, say, a hiccup occurred at the time it was being loaded in -- it was very difficult and time-consuming to determine exactly why the numbers didn’t jibe, and to track that error back to its origin,” said Rick Welch, a partner in Hollywood Super Markets and IT manager.

Welch added that having all the stores directly tied in with corporate means corrections are implemented immediately, which was not the case with the old decentralized system in use.

The new software integrates with the grocer’s accounts payable software.