Archive for October, 2009
Capital City Distribution Chooses SYSPRO ERP
Capital City Distribution is a Sacramento-based online supplier, and last week they announced their selection of SYSPRO ERP for a more efficient ERP solution. Why the need for more efficiency? Prior to this selection, Capital City was utilizing Quickbooks and Inflow for inventory control.
Capital City supplies high-quality, cost-effective equipment to spas and beauty salons, and the sale of the SYSPRO solution was brokered by reseller E2E Management. SYSPRO was selected for inventory management, and to integrate and unify the operational data previously stored in Quickbooks and Inflow. Several factors contributed to Capital City’s decision, one of them being SYSPRO’s enhanced business analysis and accurate forecasting. Another factor was SYSPRO Return Merchandise, which provides an efficient method of controlling the return and exchange of items sold to customers while allowing visibility and tracking of the item until the transaction is completed.
No commentsRomanian 4-Star Hotel Selects Epicor for Hospitality
This week, one of Romania’s most modern hotels, Capital Plaza in Bucharest, announced they have selected Epicor ERP’s Epicor for Hospitality as their global solution. The Hospitality suite offers a variety of industry-specific applications and tools, like property management and point of sale integrations, cash and sales reconciliation, procurement and SCM, and back office functions for finance.
Speaking to the quality of Epicor for Hospitality is the fact that Capital Plaza is a four-star hotel, and had investments totaling €7 million before its grand opening at the beginning of this month. The hotel has 95 rooms on five floors, a business center, meeting rooms, and several eateries. The hotel’s financial manager says Epicor was the obvious solution because it provided maximum protection for data and financial information.
Other hotels using Epicor for Hospitality include Hyatt and Le Meridien, and the platform is can be integrated with hotel specific functionality and a simple UI. In addition, all data reports within the system can be exported to Microsoft Excel for further manipulation.
No commentsNetSuite Targets A New Audience, Announces SuiteCloud Connect for Large Corporations
It isn’t news that cloud-computing software vendors are hawking their products as the perfect solution for mid-market enterprises experiencing a cash crunch, and now these vendors are pushing their applications to large enterprises trying to maintain circulation to their branches. Today at the Oracle OpenWorld convention, NetSuite announced a new version of their OneWorld product, which gives Oracle E-Business Suite users the savings and efficiency benefits of the cloud at a divisional level, while retaining current investments in Oracle applications at the corporate level.
During the economic crisis (from which we thankfully appear to be emerging), many corporations were unhappy with investments made in integrated productivity software suites, finding them unable to deliver the functionality and flexibility needed for managing multiple divisions. With cloud services, OneWorld for Oracle intends to bridge the corporate-branch gap, offering a modern solution for management from corporate systems. OneWorld for Oracle has been praised in particular by multinational companies looking to eliminate the restrictions of time zones and geography.
NetSuite’s new application is powered by SuiteCloud Connect, through which divisional users can send data to corporate, and adapts to several industry standard technologies for data migration. Of course, SuiteCloud Connect is not only for Oracle, but can be integrated into a number of ERP systems—it is essentially for any large enterprise wanting to blend their technology investments with on-demand services.
No commentsVAI’s S2K 5.0 Makes Fireworks in Ohio
The Ohio-based B.J. Alan Company announced last week they had successfully implemented one of VAI’s latest ERP solutions, S2K 5.0, for a subsidiary company, Phantom Fireworks.
Phantom is a national distributer of fireworks with 50 separate retail stores in the US, and has been using VAI products since 2002, upgrading to S2K 5.0 earlier this year. Crucial to Phantom’s business needs was S2K’s ability to help B.J. Alan run each store independently from headquarters in Ohio. This separation is especially important because many of these stores are only open a few months of the year, and need a flexible ERP system to accommodate influxes. Of course, Phantom Fireworks is also pleased with the access S2K 5.0 provides to accurate, real-time financial information, and that it is equipped with technical resources to increase cash flow.
When they add S2K for Retail, which will be fully integrated in 2010, and S2K for Distribution, all of Phantom’s financial data will be consolidated to centralize information across the whole business. S2K 5.0 implementation also helps B.J. Alan quickly locate and move items, removing delay times that would have existed previously.
No commentsEpicor Software Adds MarkdownXpert to Their Retail Merchandising Suite
The economic crisis has forced retailers to be more strategic and scientific with markdown processes, and ERP provider Epicor Software is there to meet their needs. Earlier this week, Epicor announced they would be adding MarkdownXpert to their Retail Merchandising suite.
The optimization offered by MarkdownXpert allows users to take a more effective markdown approach to better manage inventory and margin risk. Markdowns are elemental to stimulating sales, but naturally, unmonitored markdowns can be detrimental. MarkdownXpert has scalable algorithm development, and will give retailers apt and granular information regarding consumer demand, enabling them to make informed decisions.
A bonus to MarkdownXpert’s resources is the application’s ability to “learn” from each retailer’s best practices over time and use this information predictively. MarkdownXpert will make recommendations, and provides the retailer with a more accurate and relevant forecasting source. Like Epicor’s other ERP solutions, Retail Merchandising utilizes Microsoft .NET technology to improve business operations and help businesses acclimatize to ever-changing merchandise and service expectations. Companies that will benefit from the new MarkdownXpert are Zales, American Eagle Outfitters, and Ann Taylor, to name a few.
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