BigBang Douglas Spain

In 2006, Douglas decided to go it alone after leaving the joint venture with Cortefiel under which it had operated in Spain since 1995. I was brought in on the strength of my prior knowledge of both organisations and their systems. The challenge: a complete migration of all accounting, store management and merchandise systems, ensuring that on 30 September the stores closed on Cortefiel's system and on 1 October 2006 opened on Douglas's own system — head office and 125 stores simultaneously, with exactly the same data as the day before. The project was delivered without any significant incidents and on schedule.