360Commerce Announces Latest Release of Solutions Further Enabling Profitable Differentiation for Retailers.AUSTIN, Texas -- Latest version of Java-based, fully integrated product suite built to improve customer service and operational efficiency 360Commerce, the leading provider of store and workforce optimization solutions for retailers, today announced the general availability of the latest release of 360Commerce's software suite. Collaborating with leading retailers, 360Commerce has added new features and functionality to enable retailers to achieve profitable differentiation by offering consumers a superior shopping experience. "Shoppers continue to raise the bar on service expectations," said Stephen Gannon, vice president of store optimization solutions for 360Commerce. "They have hundreds of stores to choose from forcing retailers to better differentiate the in-store experience. Our newest release provides features aimed at creating a superior shopping experience and giving managers more real-time information in order to make quick and effective decisions." This latest release includes enhancements to all of 360Commerce's applications. 360Commerce's store optimization suite, including Point-of-Sale, Back Office, and Inventory Management, now offers a variety of unique features including: a new price adjustment type which enables retailers to automatically calculate the lowest price to support a lowest-price guarantee; dynamic locale (programming) locale - A geopolitical place or area, especially in the context of configuring an operating system or application program with its character sets, date and time formats, currency formats etc. Locales are significant for internationalisation and localisation. allowing a different language to be deployed to shoppers and employees at the same time; inventory location support offering retailers the ability to find items within a store faster and easier; inventory item status allowing retailers to mark merchandise as damaged, layaway An agreement between a retail seller and a consumer that provides that the seller will retain designated consumer goods for sale to the consumer at a specified price on a future date, if the consumer deposits with the seller an agreed upon sum of money. , return to sender, etc. to improve the accuracy of available-to-sell calculations; and choice of item- or carton-level receiving per receipt. 360Commerce's enterprise applications, including Central Office and Workforce Management Workforce Management (WFM) encompasses all the responsibilities for maintaining a productive and happy workforce. Sometimes referred to as HRMS systems, or even the larger ERP systems (Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP). There are many software vendors within this space. , now include additional unique features as well. For example, Central Office now offers enhanced reporting enabling store managers to drill down, save a report's setting as My Favorite My Favorite is an independent synthpop band from Long Island, New York. They released two CDs: Love at Absolute Zero and Happiest Days of Our Lives. My Favorite broke up on September 14, 2005, when singer Andrea Vaughn left the band. , and send via email to one or multiple users' dashboards. Workforce Management now includes a Meeting and Events feature that allows store managers to accurately plan for work done in the store including company meetings, inventory, plan-o-gram resets and other activities. The added functionality in the 360Commerce software suite further validates 360Commerce's dedication to providing retailers with the ability to achieve profitable differentiation. The new release will be unveiled at the National Retail Federation's Big Show at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. from January 16-19, 2005 in 360Commerce's booth #1615. About 360Commerce 360Commerce's proven and flexible store and workforce management applications are running in more of the world's leading retailers than any comparable Java solution. 360Commerce empowers retailers to achieve profitable differentiation by enabling a superior shopping experience and providing a lower total cost of ownership and rapid time to ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). . 360Commerce's applications embody the best-practices functionality of customers such as Apple, Build-A-Bear Workshop Build-A-Bear Workshop (NYSE: BBW) is an American retailer that sells customizable teddy bears and other stuffed animals. Build-A-Bear is the largest of the create-your-own animal chains with the other companies in the business consisting of regional and/or locally-owned , Circuit City, The Home Depot The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is an American retailer of home improvement and construction products and services. Headquartered in Vinings, just outside Atlanta in unincorporated Cobb County, Georgia, Home Depot employs more than 355,000 people and operates 2,164 big-box , Gap Inc., KB Toys K•B Toys (previously known as Kay Bee Toys) is a chain of mall-based retail toy stores in the United States. It was founded in 1922 by the Kaufman brothers. It currently operates 605 stores in 44 U.S. states, Puerto Rico as well as Guam. , Kinko's, and Rite Aid Rite Aid (NYSE: RAD) is a United States retailer and pharmacy chain, operating over 5,000 stores in 31 states and the District of Columbia. Rite Aid Corporation is one of the nation's leading drugstore chains. . Their applications include Point-of-Sale, Back Office, Inventory Management, Central Office and Workforce Management. |
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