Geerlings & Wade - Cutting Through the Vines (2,787 words)
Kober says, "There are things you do day in and day out, and you need to make sure when you turn a new system on in our business [that they are included] so you don't make mistakes that are going to cause you difficulties with your license or with the regulatory authorities."
In terms of getting the new system in place, Geerlings & Wade worked in a compressed time frame: It wanted to get the job done before the year 2000, "and like any retailer, our fourth quarter is the most important one of the year, so we had to be up and running by August, or else we couldn't do it," Kober recalls. The job took six months. Kober says that "literally, the people from Avexxis would sleep on the desks here, they'd take a little snooze from midnight to four, and then they'd be up and working on it again. We went with Avexxis because that's their forte, building custom applications under tight time frames."