Inventory Management

Epicor Software Corporation (NASDAQ:EPIC), a leading provider of enterprise business software solutions for the midmarket and divisions of Global 1000 companies, today announced one of the biggest apparel retailers in South East Asia has selected Epicor/CRS' retail store management solutions to provide enhanced operational visibility and efficiency.

In addition to Epicor/CRS' Microsoft .NET-based Point-of-Sale (POS), the retailer plans to implement CRS Inventory Management, and the CRS Promotional Events and Retail Mail applications within its 90 store locations. Additionally, plans call for the deployment of the CRS Merchandising application, which includes the CRS Allocations(TM), CRS Transfers Plus(TM), and CRS Retail DataWarehouse(TM) modules, along with Epicor's Warehouse Management application.

Tekelec Streamlines Inventory Management with ClearOrbit's Gemini Mobile Software Solution

Austin, Texas - June 6, 2007 - ClearOrbit ( www.clearorbit.com ), the leading provider of real-time supply chain execution and reverse logistics solutions, today announced that Tekelec has deployed ClearOrbit's Gemini Mobile Software solution to automate data collection and streamline the company's inventory management process. Since implementing Gemini, Tekelec, a high-performance network applications company, reports significant improvements in accuracy, timeliness, visibility and control of data throughout the company's warehouse and fulfillment center. Prior to Gemini, Tekelec used manual inventory management and data collection processes that limited the company's efficiencies and presented numerous obstacles to inventory accuracy and control. Gemini's automated data collection capabilities optimize accuracy and efficiency by enabling users to record transactions such as receiving, inventory movement and transfers, adjustments and returns with handheld radio-frequency (RF) scanners.

Russian Book Retailer Top-Kniga Selects Oracle(R) Retail Applications to Improve Inventory Management and Enhance ...

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Aug. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Top-Kniga, a leading retailer and wholesaler in the Russian book market, has selected Oracle(R) Retail merchandising, planning and data warehousing applications to help increase sales, performance and levels of customer service through more effective inventory management across its six wholesale warehouses and 500 stores in 180 Russian cities. Top-Kniga, which sells more than 3 million books a month across its 'Litera,' 'Las Knigas' and 'Knigomir' brands, expects the Oracle Retail platform to help improve forecasting capabilities, automate stock replenishment and provide management with valuable real-time data and analytics aimed at increasing inventory turnover and profitability, particular among its wholesale customers.

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Top-Kniga considers the Oracle Retail project an important step towards increasing the efficiency of the company's retail and wholesale businesses as it expands across Russia and into other CIS countries.

StayinFront Takes a Leap Forward

CRM vendor StayinFront today released version 10 of its enterprise suite. The new release includes several new features to enhance the broad range of decision support tools, data services, sample inventory management solutions, and e-commerce systems built on the Microsoft .NET platform included in earlier iterations.

StayinFront CRM 10's main hook is the updated user interface, tweaked by the vendor to be easier to learn, customize, and navigate. Its appearance has been refreshed to be more contemporary and, StayinFront hopes, easier to adopt. Optimized to make best use of reduced-size screens of handheld and other wireless devices, StayinFront CRM 10 lets important tasks be performed with a minimum of input. StayinFront says that its data replication and remote management technology will allow users to work with data even when they are not connected to a network.

Modifying a System to Maximize Inventory-based Customer Service and ROI

Foodservice distributors who are using inventory management software that can be modified may want to change it in ways that reduce inventory shortages and excess. That, in turn, would increase the level of customer service, and decrease inventory investment. Other benefits of these changes include reduced purchasing efforts, rush orders, expediting, clearance sales and returns to vendors (for returnable items). And, warehouse space would be freed up, and less effort would be needed for receiving, put-away and counting; staffing might be reduced. Here is an outline of some of the changes which are all meant to function automatically, so little or no human intervention is needed. Analyze order history data for unusual data that would distort inventory levels, and if a condition is within a pre-defined tolerance, adjust the data; if a condition is outside the tolerance, list the item on an action report.

Sterling Commerce and ESYNC | TranSystems Deliver World-Class Distributed Fulfillment to ...

Sterling Commerce, an AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) subsidiary, and ESYNC | TranSystems, a strategic supply chain consulting firm, today announced a relationship to address companies' needs to solve complex order fulfillment challenges. The relationship focuses on supply chain execution - the warehouse and transportation processes that enable companies to lower inventory levels, improve customer satisfaction, and increase operational efficiency. Sterling Commerce and ESYNC are highlighting best practices as part of their participation in DC/Expo in Chicago this week (Booths #615 and #404 respectively). "Fifty-seven percent of all companies surveyed placed inventory management at the top of their 'most wanted' technology list," said Beth Enslow, senior vice president, Enterprise Research and Supply Chain Practice Leader at Aberdeen Group of a recent survey conducted for Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies.

Lion Apparel Relies On Highjump Software's Warehouse Management Solution To Provide U.S. Military Personnel Worldwide ...

HighJump Software, a 3M company, a global provider of supply chain execution solutions, recently announced that Lion Apparel is successfully and efficiently managing the inventory of U.S. military personnel uniforms and equipment from 17 distribution centers worldwide. With the HighJump Warehouse Advantage warehouse management system (WMS) implemented at all of these sites, Lion Apparel reports strong operational improvements, including a 30 percent increase in productivity as well as greater visibility and accuracy.

A prime vendor for the U.S. Department of Defense, Lion Apparel's Logistics Group manages inventory of U.S. Army uniforms and equipment in its Suffolk, Va., warehouse, as well as assets currently deployed in the field. The company also has implemented the HighJump WMS at 16 Marine Corps locations in Camp Lejeune, N.C.; San Diego's Camp Pendleton; and Okinawa, Japan.

Leading Weight Management Company Jenny Craig Chooses Oracle's Siebel CRM

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. (Map) - Oracle today announced that Jenny Craig, one of the world's leading weight management companies, has expanded its relationship with Oracle to standardize on Oracle's Siebel CRM to help increase business growth, improve overall efficiencies and gain a 360 degree client view across all sales channels. Utilizing Siebel CRM, Jenny Craig will be able to automate business processes for sales, inventory, reporting, calendar and scheduling.