Merchandising

Merchandising
You have no shortage of options when it comes to selecting and creating merchandise. What is in short supply are the time and resources needed to manage that inventory for top results.

Epicor Retail Merchandising meets this challenge head on. Merchandising gives you the tools and functionality you need to analyze, order, price, and distribute merchandise for maximum return on your investments. By using consistent data to guide all processes, the solution automatically synchronizes and integrates key functions to let you:

• Send exactly the right merchandise to exactly the store
• Track the status of all merchandise through shipping, receiving, and distribution
• Define your own business rules for pricing, data validation, inventory status, and purchase approvals
• Alert users automatically to exceptions in merchandise performance by location
• Reduce markdowns, end-of-season consolidations, and transfers
• Allocate items directly to your stores using a fully integrated Allocation and Replenishment module to balance both merchandise plans and store-level sales activity
• Analyze items by style or style/color and drill-down easily to more detailed information, to accurately measure the true cost of doing business
• Isolate under-performing or over-performing items using exception-based functionality
• Create flexible analyses and reports, and quickly initiate transfers and price changes
• Integrate smoothly with best-of-breed Planning and Assortment Planning applications to streamline the creation of allocations and purchase orders

In all these ways, Epicor Retail Merchandising lets you tightly coordinate every key merchandising process in every channel for fewer hassles, errors, markdowns, and returns. The result? You'll improve the performance of your supply chain, make your business more competitive, and optimize your ROI.