ERS was founded in 2002 by a group of retail veterans who saw a fundamental shift occurring between retailers and their vendor partners. We know that in today’s environment retailers demand more from suppliers, particularly when it comes to management and financial accountability for merchandise programs. While this can be a very challenging prospect for suppliers, we believe it is a golden opportunity. We provide analysis tools and services that enable them to quickly and affordably review every detail of their business far greater than even the buyer could.
Imagine predicting out of stock locations in advance, generating a custom replenishment plan in seconds, finding over and under performing stores instantly, using demographic profiles to increase store counts and accessing risk on margin guarantees before you quote the cost.
Our tools transform vast quantities of data into meaningful, actionable opportunities. Our experience in retail management, along with our extensive software development background combines to deliver you real world solutions for real world problems.
Smart suppliers know that more business comes their way when they help the buyer do their job. Our mission is simple: become our client’s partner in managing and improving all aspects of their business in dealing with their retailers.
If you want to increase your sales and profit, make inventory more productive and improve your buyer relationships, then you need Enhanced Retail Solutions.
Our customers include a broad range of manufacturers, from $20M to billion dollar companies such as Mamiye Brothers, Weatherproof, MCS Frames, Sunham and Hollander Home Fashions.
See our company in action in this short demo video.
KEY ASSOCIATES
James E. Lewis, CEO and Founder
Jim is a former Buyer at one of the Nation’s largest retail chains. He managed or bought key categories in Men’s, Children’s and Home Textiles throughout his 15 year career. He was honored several times during his career with executive level projects and sat on varying key company initiative task forces. Jim has been featured in several Apparel and Home Textiles publications and has sponsored seminars at MAGIC.
Sean Prouty, Business Consultant Sean brings research, statistics and wholesale supply chain expertise to our business. As a planner and analyst for a leading T-Shirt manufacturer, he managed and analyzed their business with key retail accounts including Wal-Mart, JCPenney, Kohl’s and other retail giants.
David Matsil, President of Business Development and Marketing David has 20+ years experience providing the Apparel, Textiles and Home Furnishing Industries with technology solutions. He has a vast working knowledge of CAD and retail analysis systems.
Lisa Maxwell, Business Consulting Advisor
With over 17 years of retail experience at one of the Nation’s largest retail chains, Lisa brings expertise in brand development, buying, sourcing and team integration. She balances our analytic/technical knowledge with good old fashion retailing based on design.
Charlie Miller, Business Consultant
Charles E. Miller (Charlie) has 30+ years in the retail business at JCPenney and has been helping retailer suppliers recover and avoid chargebacks since 2004. His experience includes: working with and for the JCP supplier compliance group; direct responsible for the management, organization, and content of the JCPenney Supplier web site; compliance and systems auditing in stores, warehouses, and corporate merchandise systems; project management and development of buying team systems for domestic and international units; and, providing direct operational and systems support for JCPenney buying teams. His diverse background and experience qualifies him to assist with any retailer chargebacks.
Robert Grund, Chief Software Architect Bob has over 30 years experience as a software developer, architect, consultant, and manager with some of the nations largest financial institutions. He specializes in the construction of multi-tier client-server and WEB applications using the latest Microsoft technologies such as .NET and SQL Server.
