Ashley Furniture HomeStores Integrate Supply Chain with GERS Retail Systems and FurnishNet.SAN DIEGO San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. -- GERS Retail Systems: --Connecting Retailers with Ashley Furniture Industries Inc. Inventory System for Real-Time Product Allocation and Shipment Scheduling Enables Faster Merchandise Delivery and Reduced Costs GERS Retail Systems, a leading provider of enterprise software solutions for consumer-centric retailing, today announced that five leading Ashley Furniture HomeStore retailers will integrate the company's inventory and store operations solutions with Ashley Furniture Industries' corporate system for on-line inventory allocation and shipment scheduling. The project includes implementation of the FurnishNet electronic document exchange service between the dealers and Ashley corporate systems to reduce paperwork processing and overhead and improve customer service. The five Ashley dealers are Ashley Furniture HomeStores/DFW and four well-known retailers who operate standalone stand·a·lone adj. Self-contained and usually independently operating: a standalone computer terminal. Ashley Furniture HomeStores: Ivan Smith, Morris Furniture, Olindes, and Phillips Furniture. "Integrating our supply chain with Ashley Furniture's corporate system not only streamlines our operations, it significantly improves the customer experience," said Shelly Levitz, Co-Owner and CFO See Chief Financial Officer. of Ashley Furniture HomeStores/Dallas/Fort Worth/El Paso. "There will be fewer if any order errors and we can schedule faster deliveries, which our customers will appreciate." "The integration of our Inventory solution with the Ashley Corporate system and using FurnishNet to facilitate communications provides a huge competitive advantage for our Ashley Furniture HomeStore customers," said Phil Kenney, Vice President of Product Management and Marketing for GERS Retail Systems. "It lowers their operating costs operating costs npl → gastos mpl operacionales by automating the lookup A data search performed within a predefined table of values (array, matrix, etc.) or within a data file. and delivery scheduling process, speeds and simplifies document exchanges, reduces the amount of Ashley stock in their own warehouse, and guarantees deliveries to increase customer satisfaction." About GERS Retail Systems GERS Retail Systems is a leading supplier of software solutions for consumer-centric retailing. By facilitating the real-time flow of transactions and information across the entire retail organization, our solutions enable retailers to consistently anticipate, understand, and fulfill ful·fill also ful·fil tr.v. ful·filled, ful·fill·ing, ful·fills also ful·fils 1. To bring into actuality; effect: fulfilled their promises. 2. their customers' expectations for products that are priced, located, and timed to provide the optimal shopping experience. GERS solutions manage the merchandising merchandising Element of marketing concerned especially with the sale of goods and services to customers. One aspect of merchandising is advertising, which aims to capture the interest of the segment of the population most likely to buy the product. life cycle, multi-channel selling, planning, business intelligence, and supply chain synchronization (1) See synchronous and synchronous transmission. (2) Ensuring that two sets of data are always the same. See data synchronization. (3) Keeping time-of-day clocks in two devices set to the same time. See NTP. to create a great customer experience. For more information, please visit www.gers.com. |
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