Apps Purchases: 10+ Million Software Purchases
Founded in 2010, APPS RUN THE WORLD is a leading technology intelligence and market-research company devoted to the application space. Leveraging a rigorous data-centric research methodology, we ask the simple B2B sales intelligence question: Who’s buying enterprise applications from whom and why?
Our global team of 50 researchers has been studying the digital transformation initiatives being undertaken by 2 million + companies including technographic segmentation of 10 million ERP, EPM, CRM, HCM, Procurement, SCM, Treasury software purchases, aggregating massive amounts of data points that form the basis of our forecast assumptions and perhaps the rise and fall of certain vendors and their products on a quarterly basis.
Apps Run The World Buyer Insight and Technographics Customer Database has over 100 data fields that detail company usage of emerging technologies such as AI, Machine Learning, IoT, Blockchain, Autonomous Database, and different on-prem and cloud apps by function, customer size (employees, revenues), industry, country, implementation status, year deal won, partner involvement, Line of Business Key Stakeholders and key decision-makers contact details, including the systems being used by Fortune 1000 and Global 2000 companies.
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Advance Auto Parts | Retail | 40000 | $11.3B | United States | Blue Yonder | Blue Yonder Advanced Warehouse Replenishment (ex JDA Advanced Warehouse Replenishment) | Inventory Management | 2014 | n/a | In 2014 Advance Auto Parts deployed Blue Yonder Advanced Warehouse Replenishment (ex JDA Advanced Warehouse Replenishment) for Inventory Management. The implementation provided centralized replenishment across 28 distribution centers, including three sites in Canada, and managed inbound flows from domestic and import vendors. The deployment focused on replenishment engine configuration, ladder planning, and order generation rules that calculated replenishment orders from rate of sales, seasonality, lead times, and order frequency. Teams applied ladder plans to map historical sales and forecasts from discontinued SKUs to new product mappings during a five month transition period, while continuing to execute distribution strategies for line reviews, planogram resets, and special initiatives. Blue Yonder Advanced Warehouse Replenishment was used alongside Oracle Replenishment, Oracle Predictive Solutions, ADIS, FileZilla, Monarch, Razor SQL, Power BI, and BI Launch Pad for data ingestion, forecast alignment, order file exchange, and analytics. The project also included merging buying systems and processes from Carquest into Advance Auto Parts systems, which required coordinated data mapping and handoffs between replenishment and purchasing workflows. Operational governance encompassed inventory planning and financial coordination, including updates to the annual budget, open to buy reviews, cost of goods sold tracking, and receipts monitoring. Inventory control processes included analysis of unproductive product and compilation of callback data to reduce inventory liability, with replenishment and purchasing teams operating under revised workflow rules. The implementation directly impacted inventory planning, replenishment, purchasing, merchandising, finance, and distribution operations, with Blue Yonder Advanced Warehouse Replenishment serving as the core Inventory Management application to orchestrate replenishment planning and execution. | |
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Advance Auto Parts | Retail | 40000 | $11.3B | United States | In-House Applications | Advance Auto Parts Speed Perks Rewards Program | Customer Loyalty | 2019 | n/a | In 2019 Advance Auto Parts relaunched the Advance Auto Parts Speed Perks Rewards Program as an in-house initiative to drive CRM and loyalty across its U.S. retail stores and eCommerce channels. The record reflects an in-house loyalty implementation in the loyalty/CRM process area, managed directly by Advance Auto Parts rather than an external vendor. The Advance Auto Parts Speed Perks Rewards Program configuration centralized core loyalty capabilities, including Perks Bucks accrual and redemption, tiered membership benefits, enrollment and account management, and rules for accelerated reward earning. Functional workflows emphasize customer profile consolidation, reward issuance logic, and membership tier handling, consistent with standard loyalty system functional modules. Operational coverage spans Advance Auto Parts retail stores across the United States and its eCommerce channels, aligning store operations, marketing, customer service, and digital commerce teams around a single loyalty schema. The implementation is described as an in-house deployment that unifies customer touchpoints between physical and digital channels to support consistent accrual and redemption experiences. Governance for the relaunch remained internal, with program ownership focused on CRM and loyalty operations to accelerate reward earning and improve the customer experience. The narrative documents structural implementation details and program objectives without third party system references or specified outcome metrics. | |
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Retail | 40000 | $11.3B | United States | Blue Yonder | Blue Yonder Warehouse Labor Management (ex JDA Warehouse Labor Management) | Workforce Management | 2016 | n/a |
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Retail | 40000 | $11.3B | United States | NAVEX Global | NAVEX EthicsPoint Incident Management | Whistleblowing Management | 2021 | n/a |
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Retail | 40000 | $11.3B | United States | Oracle | Oracle GoldenGate | Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL),Data Replication | 2016 | n/a |
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Retail | 40000 | $6.7B | Brazil | Oracle | Oracle Marketing Cloud | Marketing Automation | 2016 | n/a |
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Retail | 40000 | $6.7B | Brazil | Twilio | Twilio Flex | Call Center | 2017 | n/a |
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Retail | 40000 | $6.7B | Brazil | VTEX | VTEX eCommerce | eCommerce | 2019 | n/a |
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Retail | 40000 | $6.7B | Brazil | Airship | Airship Experience Platform | Customer Experience | 2019 | n/a |
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Retail | 40000 | $6.7B | Brazil | Intuit | Intuit Mailchimp | Marketing Automation | 2018 | n/a |
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