X-Chain - ArtofCommerce - Inventory Management Benefits

Benefits

Merchandising and the Supply Chain

The merchandising and supply chain provides the construct of the system and the basic components that feed the business channels with the tools for success. An enterprise class merchandising and purchasing environment capable of managing any merchandise type and inventories with automated and flexible replenishment and goods distribution models all bundled into an available and reliable business and technological architecture. CapeTown Image++ is the technology that delivers the E-Commerce power to your system by allowing your merchandisers and sales people to add life to your product with the addition of digital objects from digital images to formatted rich text descriptions to computer documents of any type, present and future, like word processing documents, music files and video files. Image++ takes your merchandise database to the next level and allows you to add life to your merchandise without the technology resources or costs you would expect.

ART OF COMMERCE™ Product Explorer

ART OF COMMERCE™ PRODUCT LIST
Define your product in a structure that matches your business, your strategy and your hierarchy complete with digital media, documents and streaming items such as sound and video.

ART OF COMMERCE™ E-Commerce Interface

ART OF COMMERCE™ E-COMMERCE PRODUCT
Deliver your products and Image++ media to the web customer, customer sign on accounts, yours sales representatives and your business resources. As new product and infomation becomes available your Internet Presence is updated.

Integrate the day to day and web delivery system merchandising activities into a single streaming management effort

Organize your product development document and digital media into a centralized and accessible database with a powerful global search capability called Image++ and its connected to your the merchandise and inventory management

Integrate trade, distribution, telephone sales, web and mail order, and EDI sales processes into a single system

Create an automated inventory replenishment environment with demand and seasonal forecasting and actual sales values to drive the availability of your product where you sell it

Integrate the industry standard product and delivery documentation and presentation requirements into the workflow of the system

Connect your customers and third parties to the business with a web enabled access capability and self management portal that is available in a business to business and a business to consumer model

Create a streamlined operational center workflow by flowing sales channel, customer and supply activities into a single or multiple location warehouse/distribution center environment in one system

Create a paper free environment with web enabled devices in your inventory presence locations and a customer access web site

Create an automated and predictive delivery and transportation model for your business and service level objectives.

Provide an operational center interface for facility and inventory centric resources and a customer and business interface for sales, business and customer centric resources

Integrate any size chain or multiple chains into a cohesive merchandising and multiple tiered inventory management and replenishment system

Automate the receiving at the store level with data streams from your head office, distribution center, third party providers and vendors and transportation providers for a well rounded receiving and tack and trace environment

Add the store level interface for an all around system solution or integrate your existing store level solution into the Art of Commerce™ system

Integrate any number of facilities into a cohesive management system with an operational center interface

Create rule based and inventory based movement and storage management flows that are customer and facility centric

Retail and Logistics Centric Benefits

Integrate any size chain or multiple chains into a cohesive merchandising and multi-level inventory management and replenishment based system

Integrate the day to day and web delivery system merchandising activities into a single streaming management effort

Add the store level interface for an all around system solution or integrate your existing store level solution into the Art of Commerce™ system

Organize your product development document and digital media into a centralized and accessible database with a powerful global search capability connected to your the merchandise and inventory management

Integrate trade, distribution, telephone sales, web and mail order, and EDI sales processes into a single system

Create an automated inventory replenishment environment with demand and seasonal forecasting and actual sales values to drive the availability of your product where you sell it

Integrate the industry standard product and delivery documentation and presentation requirements into the workflow of the system

Connect your customers and third parties to the business with a web enabled access capability and self management portal that is available in a business to business and a business to consumer model

Create a streamlined operational center workflow by flowing sales channel, customer and supply activities into a single or multiple location warehouse/distribution center environment in one system

Create a paper free environment with web enabled devices in your inventory presence locations and a customer access web site

Create an automated and predictive delivery and transportation model for your business and service level objectives

Provide an operational center interface for facility and inventory centric resources and a customer and business interface for sales, business and customer centric resources

Integrate any number of facilities into a cohesive management system with an operational center interface

Create rule based and inventory based movement and storage management flows that are customer and facility centric

Retail Chain

The retail store is a very specific line of business, requiring very customized register based applications that make use of the Point-of-Sales equipment available in today’s marketplace. Todays store front is now a common environment in which to deploy windows applications, touch screen, Internet/Intranet browsing, online forms, signage applications and more. Art of Commerce™ manages the point of sale and in store processing environment that manages the challenges of retail sales, inventory and resource management. Developed in an integrated fashion within the Art of Commerce™ system so that merchandising, the supply chain and sales are maintained in a single distributed system. The Art of Commerce™ point of sale environment is dedicated to the Retail environment and uses the same powerful tools that are found in the central system like the Professional Sales Desk, with the addition of an Active Framework that hides the complexities of windows from the register operators while allowing access to Windows tools such as e-mail and Internet/Intranet browsing. Art of Commerce™ was developed with powerful retail equipment platforms like the IBM SureOne, IBM SurePoint, IBM 4694 and IBM 4695 touch screen and the IBM 700 series. Art of Commerce™ bridges the power of dedicated market equipment and current software technology to create your power store or power chain.

ART OF COMMERCE™ Retail Interface

ART OF COMMERCE™ RETAIL REGISTER
Retail register interface that is molded for the scanner and qiuck access key based checkout of product and customer receipt scenario. The ability to run on equipment platforms that are specific to the retailer such as IBM Point of Sale and other retail specific equipment.

ART OF COMMERCE™ E-Commerce Checkout

ART OF COMMERCE™ E-COMMERCE CHECKOUT
E-commerce customer management and checkout allow your customer accounts a window into your business and business forms in a paperless environment. Production of forms via the web for customer and representative delivery can be in multiple output formats, E-Mail, PDF, TIFF, etc.

Logistics

The comprehensive management of merchandise, sales, receipts, inventory replenishment and distribution through local or remote operational centers and destinations. The Art of Commerce™ system employs sophisticated location management, order picking, pick and pack, distribution, staging, outbound scanning, conveyor diversion, routing and manifesting and carrier and shipment management. An Operational Center Management System that allows these facilities to operate independently and in a fashion compatible with their performance requirements. The system also filters management and sales resources from the many details of a logistics environment. Tracking the status of merchandise transactions at the shipment container level from Vendor to Operations Centers to Stores to Customers, from receipt to distribution, replenishment, distribution, shipment and final delivery.

ART OF COMMERCE™ Automated Replenishment

ART OF COMMERCE™ REPLENISHMENT MODELING
Inventory and Chain Automated Replenishment is acheived with a specific interface which provides for standard presentation stock, basic demand and demand fluxuations over periodic intervals as per user defined models which provides your enterprise with seasonal demand forcasts against actual stock. Replenishment run processing is managed on a completely independant basis allowing more frequent run cycles over planned schedule allowing for daily replenishent runs over a seasonal cycle.

ART OF COMMERCE™ EDI Workflow

ART OF COMMERCE™ EDI TRANSACTIONS
EDI, Electronic Data Interchange transaction processing for inbound and outbound Purchase Order, Purchase Order Change, Advanced Ship Notice using SOPI structure, Invoice and Shipment Delivery as well as standard acknowledgement EDI processing. EDI transactions are flowed through the system as if they were keyed in house and provide for healing mechanisms for those occassions where your customer or vendor are not dealing with the same information.