Allied Retail Group

Allied Retail Group (ARG) is the trading name of Tasman Liquor Company -- New Zealand's largest owner of liquor retail outlets. Operating over 370 franchised stores under three brands (The Bottle-O, Merchants Liquor, and Liquor Centre), ARG is a subsidiary of Metcash, the ASX-listed retail and wholesale group.

Managing a nationwide franchise network means ARG coordinates hundreds of independent store owners, a broad supplier base, and complex, recurring promotional programmes -- all underpinned by Today Software's POSPerfect point-of-sale and a Corporate Controller platform. Bringing consistency, visibility, and efficiency to that environment is the challenge the MyIQ platform was configured to address.

Before MyIQ, ARG's core operational workflows were fragmented across spreadsheets, email, and manual processes. Promotion cycles were managed entirely outside any central system. Supplier scan payments were reconciled manually.

With sales and inventory data distributed across hundreds of stores, there was no straightforward way for the support office or store owners to get a clear, current view of business performance. Every stakeholder -- store owners, suppliers, retail business managers, and the support office -- was working from different data in different places.

Key challenges included:

• Promotion cycles managed entirely in spreadsheets with no central system
• No consolidated view of sales or inventory performance across 370+ stores
• Store owners, suppliers, and support office each working from different data in different places

ARG needed a single platform that could bring promotions, supplier engagement, and reporting together -- one that integrated with existing systems, could be configured to their specific workflows, and would scale across the entire store network. Because MyIQ's core platform components -- the integration gateway, pre-existing data warehouse schema, and Power BI report suite -- were already in place, ARG was up and running quickly. The platform was configured and extended across three core capability areas, tailored to ARG's brands, promotion cycles, supplier relationships, and store network.

Promotion Management

MyIQ's promotion management module was configured for ARG's Core (4-week) and Capped (8-week) cycle formats across all brand families. ARG's support office manages the full promotion lifecycle -- from creation through supplier bidding and margin validation, to publishing directly to Today Software's Corporate Controller via MyIQ's plug-and-play integration gateway. Suppliers access the platform through their own login to submit product bids and track promotion status, with automated notifications triggered at each stage. Special deal types -- Day Deals, Multi-Buys, and Bundle Deals -- are all supported within the platform's existing promotion framework, and promotion outputs (poster/flyer, ticketing, and website upload files) are generated automatically.

Sales, Inventory & Rebate Reporting

ARG's reporting is delivered through MyIQ's pre-existing Power BI report suite, configured to the ARG data model and extended where needed to match ARG-specific requirements. Sales dashboards, Gross Profit analysis, stock reporting, and supplier scan (rebate) invoicing are all available out of the platform -- secured by role, so store owners see only their own data, Retail Business Managers see their region, and support office has full national visibility. Store owners can set and track sales targets on the same platform, with data sourced directly from the MyIQ data warehouse and refreshed automatically from Today Software's Corporate Controller.

Whole-of-Network Coverage

For ARG stores not yet running POSPerfect, MyIQ's integration gateway was configured to connect with WiredFox -- a platform that aggregates sales data from stores on alternative POS systems. This brings up to 80 additional stores into the same rebate and sales reporting environment as the existing POSPerfect-connected network, with no change to the downstream reporting suite or security model. ARG's entire store footprint is now visible through a single platform.