Carol House Furniture Upgrades with GERS Sequel System.SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 6, 1998--Missouri-based Carol House Furniture, a long-time customer of GERS Retail Systems, is the latest retailer to choose the advanced technology of the GERS Sequel System to simplify its day-to-day operations. Carol House is enhancing its software capabilities after using the GERS RDOS RDOS - Realtime Disk Operating System system since 1985. The home furnishings retailer will be utilizing the Batch Bar Code, Point-of-Sale (POS (1) See point of sale and packet over SONET. (2) "Parent over shoulder." See digispeak. POS - point of sale ), Sequel Flash, and Customer Service modules. Their reasons for purchasing and upgrading to the new system include a desire to streamline their warehouse with a bar coding process, to cut down on time involved in sales order The sales order, sometimes abbreviated as SO, is an order received by a business from a customer. A sales order may be for products and/or services. Given the wide variety of businesses, this means that the orders can be fulfilled in several ways. processing and to increase memory capacity. Amy Dubman, vice president of Carol House, says it was only natural for them to choose GERS when it came time to upgrade. "We've had good experiences with GERS all these years so we felt comfortable taking the next step," said Dubman. "We also asked other retailers we know and discovered that GERS has a really good reputation." Carol House Furniture, a second-generation, family-run retailer in business for 34 years, has headquarters in Maryland Heights, Mo., and has two stores and one warehouse in its 130-employee business. "I think our system is perfect for a retailer like Carol House," said GERS vice president Dennis Conforto. "We have so much to offer them and can save them significant manpower hours. I think they'll like what they see from their upgrade." In the future Carol House is expected to be outsourcing special projects to GERS. The GERS Sequel System is a comprehensive management tool that allows retailers the ability to oversee all aspects of retail operation including accounting, inventory, sales, warehousing and merchandising, with the flexibility to shape the system to their individual needs. Built within an Oracle relational database relational database Database in which all data are represented in tabular form. The description of a particular entity is provided by the set of its attribute values, stored as one row or record of the table, called a tuple. platform to facilitate optimal growth, the Sequel System also features clear menus with friendly pop-up windows pop-up window n (Comput) → Popup-Fenster nt to guide users through each procedure to save time and increase employee productivity. GERS Retail Systems provides fully integrated, Open Systems computer solutions software, hardware, and comprehensive training for department stores This is a list of department stores. In the case of department store groups the location of the flagship store is given. This list does not include large specialist stores, which sometimes resemble department stores. , specialty stores, home furnishings retailers, and consumer electronics/wireless retail operations. CONTACT: GERS Retail Systems Shelley Boswell Deborah Gordon Deborah Gordon (born 1955) is a biologist at Stanford University, profiled in the New York Times Magazine. Major research Gordon studies ant colony behavior and ecology, with a particular focus on Red harvester ants. Her views have brought her into public conflict with E. 800/854-2263 |
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