Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

Associated Grocers Baton Rouge (AG BR) last week successfully replaced its legacy back-end system with a new suite of applications to deliver advanced price management services to its more than 215 grocery stores.

Another new executive has joined the ranks of Supervalu. Wayne Shurts, 50, a 25-year CPG veteran, has become the new EVP/CIO of the Minneapolis-based retailer and distributor.

Membership club retailer BJ’s Wholesale Club plans to add four more solar photovoltaic (PV) systems — solar panels — to four stores through a partnership with Tioga Energy, a supplier of renewable energy services to commercial, government and nonprofit institutions.

Regional independent Raley’s has extended its contract with Chelmsford, Mass.-based workforce automation solution provider Kronos, following the grocer’s success in using the system to attract, hire and retain quality employees.

In an effort to enhance supplier and retailer relationships while increasing deal management efficiency, regional grocery wholesaler Associated Wholesale Grocers (AWG) plans to subscribe to DemandTec’s Deal Management software service on the DemandTec TradePoint Network.

Redner’s Markets, a regional chain of warehouse-style and quick-stop grocery stores located in the northeastern United States, has implemented Tripwire Enterprise to help meet its Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) goals, the Reading, Pa.-based company reported. Redner’s is now fully automated with file integrity monitoring and automatic configuration assessments across all PCI-related networks.

Hannaford Brothers has received the Gold Award from the Information Integrity Coalition (IIC), a Naperville, Ill.-based not-for-profit organization promoting information integrity, or accuracy, consistency and reliability of information content, and associated processes, systems and environment, for the grocer’s Systems Enhancement for Global Access (SEGA) program.

Brookshire Grocery Co.’s (BGC) CFO, Tim King, died March 3 after a brief illness.