Florida's Barewood Outlet Purchases GERS Sequel System for More Efficient Daily Operations.SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 28, 1998--GERS Retail Systems is pleased to announce that Barewood Outlet has purchased the GERS Sequel System, a powerful retail management tool developed to offer the latest advances in technology to the home furnishings furnishings the extra type or quantity of hair on the head, tail, ears or legs, specified for a particular breed. For example, the feathers in setters, the beard in Bearded collies, the eyebrows in Schnauzers. market, to automate To turn a set of manual steps into an operation that goes by itself. See automation. their day-to-day operations. Barewood consulted with several other retailers before choosing the GERS system. "I looked for about a year-and-a-half before deciding on GERS because I liked how their software and hardware people work closely together with the retailer, something I didn't see with the other software systems I investigated," said Robin Grace, vice president of Barewood Outlet. "And since we have plans to expand our organization, we feel the powerful system GERS offers was the best one to accommodate us." Barewood Outlet is a high-end, natural-wood home furnishings retailer. The three store and one warehouse operation is located in Tampa, Fla., and has been in business for about eight years. Future plans include opening more outlets. "We welcome Barewood Outlet to our outstanding family of retail clients and are confident we can more than meet their expectations of our system and support staff as we have done with hundreds of other retailers," said GERS vice president Dennis Conforto. "What's great about the GERS system is that it can grow with the retailer. And since Barewood looks to expand in the future, we plan on being with them every step of the way." In addition to the GERS Base Package, the modules purchased by Barewood Outlet include POS (1) See point of sale and packet over SONET. (2) "Parent over shoulder." See digispeak. POS - point of sale , Batch Bar Coding, Sequel Flash, Credit Card Authorization The right or permission to use a system resource; the process of granting access. See access control. Interface and the Third Party Credit Interface. Hardware purchased is the Data General AviiON AViiON was a series of computers from Data General that were the company's main product from the late 1980s until the company's server products were discontinued in 2001. Earlier AViiON models used the Motorola 88000 CPU, but later models moved to an all-Intel solution when AV2100. They plan to convert to the Sequel System next month. 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. to facilitate optimal growth, the Sequel System alleviates retailers of manual tasks by providing real-time automation of integral daily tasks such as sales, inventory, 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. , and accounting. Optional modules allow retailers to expand their system to incorporate cutting edge technologies including Radio Frequency Warehousing and Sequel Routing Interface. GERS Retail Systems provides fully integrated, Open Systems computer solutions software, hardware, and comprehensive training for hardlines, softlines, 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. , Home Furnishings retailers, and Consumer Electronics/Wireless retail operations. CONTACT: GERS Retail Systems Shelley Boswell, 800/854-2263 |
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