Hosted internally or externally, Enhanced Retail Solutions’ software offers an easy to use and cost effective platform that brings the power of retail analysis to your fingertips.
Find out why ERS provides a competitive advantage to industry leaders such as Li & Fung, iRobot, JCPenney Private Brands, MCS Frames, Duraflame, MasterPieces Puzzle, Weatherproof, The Moret Group, Delta Enterprises, Itochu Prominent, Swat-Fame, Mamiye/GUESS Kids, Little Me, Techno Source, Hollander Home Fashions and Richloom Fabrics.
Our flagship enterprise application Desktop Analyst SQL provides a set of tools that focuses on the fundamentals of retail and supply from sales analysis to demand planning. Some of the features and benefits include:
- Provides ONE platform for data, and a consistent format of reporting for all your retail accounts.
- Helps analyze your business in microscopic detail quickly- by SKU, by door.
- Integrates with your wholesale inventory data (available to ship, production on order).
- Business Overview- Summarizes Sales and Inventory by retail account, by style and by SKU.
- Weekly Analyst- Flexible report building with units, dollars, weeks of supply, average unit retail, gross margin dollars and percent and much more.
- Store Execution Statistics- A tool set that even buyers are envious of. Quickly review stores with inventory and no sales, stores that are sold out, stores that sold above and below average, etc.
- Store performance ranking based on user defined parameters including unit and dollars sales and sell through.
- Geographic Mapping of store performance.
- Ratio Comparison- Study the inventory and sales by SKU versus plan.
- Replenishment Advisor- Quickly determine the optimum inventory level by SKU (or style) for each store based on a variety of user defined parameters.
- Demographic Summary- Ties item performance with the Ethnicity, Age, Sex, Income and other characteristics of areas surrounding stores.
- Lost Sales- Quantify missed opportunity by SKU by store.
- Related Performance- Study how the sales of SKU’s (colors, sizes, etc.) compare to each other by store. Helps with assortment planning.
- Forecast Master- Using a variety of user defined parameters, calculates inventory needs by SKU by month based on sales performance. Takes both store inventory and wholesale inventory into consideration.
- New Item Forecast- A quick way to determine how much inventory is required to set a new program, and assort within volume groups.
- Item Planner- Build weekly sales and inventory plans like a buyer. Track actual results and forecast based on trends.
Desktop Requirements:
Microsoft Windows XP (Service Pack 2) or later
Processor: 2.0 GHz dual core
Microsoft Excel 2007 or later
RAM: 1GB, 2GB recommended
Hard drive: 1GB (standard configuration), 5-20 GB (if no dedicated server)
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 or later
Microsoft MapPoint 2004 or 2006 (if using the mapping feature)
Server Requirements:
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition or later. For multiple users and large SKU counts we strongly recommend that the server be dedicated to this application.
RAM: 4GB minimum, 8GB recommended
Processor: 2.5GHz minimum, 3 GHz dual core recommended
Hard drive: 200GB available on server drive
Backup capability