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Advance Auto Parts, headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia, is the second-largest retailer of automotive replacement parts and accessories in the United States. AAP was founded in 1932 and had 2008 sales of approx. $5.1B. AAP operates 3,540 stores in 40 US states and employs over 51,000 Team Members across all operations.
In 2005, Advance Auto Parts purchased Autopart International, Inc. which operates 202 stores along the Atlantic Seaboard.

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Advance Auto Parts is the second-largest automotive aftermarket retailer in the United States based on sales and store count. The company premiered on the Fortune 500 list of companies in 2003 at No. 466 and has remained on the list since that time. As of January 2006, it was ranked at No. 1,497 on the Forbes magazine "World's Biggest Public Companies" list, and in 2005 Forbes named it as being the best-managed company in the retail sector.
Advance's organizational development and training programs were named to Training Magazine's Top 100 list in 2003 at No. 54, and the company has remained on the list since that time. Advance's Information Technology department has been nationally recognized by being named to the Information Week 500 list of top ranking business users of technology every year since 2003, when the company debuted on the list at No. 448.
Advance has received numerous recognitions for charitable contributions. The company has been nationally recognized for its fundraising for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), having donated more than $20 million since 1994.


• Advance Auto Parts, a leading automotive aftermarket retailer, has implemented the Oracle® Retail Merchandising System to localize offerings and improve profitability at 3,500 stores in 39 states, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
• In the first of a multi-phase program, the specialty retailer has completed the implementation of Oracle Retail Merchandising and Oracle Retail Price Management, establishing a single, flexible IT system that tells the retailer how items and categories are performing in groups and by stores, and enables the business to quickly execute merchandise and pricing changes.
• The Oracle Retail system is part of a larger transformation at Advance Auto Parts in which the company is establishing a more agile, flexible business to cater to customer preferences, improve performance and respond to market opportunities.
• Oracle helped the retailer integrate Oracle Retail Merchandising System and Oracle Retail Price Management with existing systems, adopt new business processes and convert approximately 760,000 SKUs from disparate legacy systems to a single SKU master. They also conducted testing mock conversions so that the final conversion took just two days to complete.
• Advance Auto Parts implemented the Oracle Retail applications with minimal changes and adopted new merchandising, supply chain and store operations processes that aligned with the system.
• Oracle Retail Price Management gives store and merchandising teams greater flexibility and control over pricing strategies, including zone and category pricing.
• Advance Auto Parts is now implementing Oracle Retail Allocation, and will use the application to help to optimize inventory and streamline supply chain, planning and allocations processes across all locations.
 
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