Art of Commerce™

The Art of Commerce™ merchandising system provides a full cycle, end to end management system for the product development and distribution industry.

The fusion of merchandise inventory, development and presentation, sales channel integration, logistics and fulfillment workflows with both retailer specific and supply chain centric industry requirements in a web and desktop enabled system surrounding a powerful and expandable database foundation.

The integration of the multi-faceted merchandising enterprise into a cohesive and all encompassing system for the demanding requirements of a modern day product oriented enterprise that focuses on the integration of the bricks and mortar established platforms and the virtual online sales environments that have become the new standard.

Art of Commerce™ manages sales environments that accommodate diverse lines of business such as trade, telesales, web and electronic data interchange. The Professional Sales Desk manages all order entry aspects of the system for these operations and directly integrates the warehousing and distribution facilities where required. Any order based selling environment can make use of this powerful application. The traditional order entry line based system is fully supported and the Art of Commerce™ system further enhanced it with an object oriented Catalog Entry Form where entry is as simple as filling in the blanks or checking boxes where reason would apply. Product navigation tools allow the sales person to move through the entire merchandise database with simple mouse actions for data filter and find modes with all merchandise information. Customer Navigation and Customer Sales History is performed with the same power and assists in the order creation process.

The system provides for full accounting journals related to sales, inventory, and purchasing and provides a batch transfer interface that currently supports all versions of the ACCPAC for Windows platforms including the Corporate and SBS editions. The financial interface was developed with the ability to support multiple company financials and a departmentalized account structure that is definable at the store level in the client, line and store model. The accounting journals also support multi and single currency environments and support all documents in the accounts receivable and accounts payable areas. The ACCPAC modules supported are General Ledger, Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable. When dealing with multiple tender environments from retail stores or Internet stores these stores are defined with a receivables account structure to manage the actual receipts against store sales. The journals are completely automated and are built on a transaction by transaction basis.

The Art of Commerce™ system provides transaction based EDI support through a partnership with Innovis™. Innovis™ providesa windows based EDI transaction mapping environment with full EDI version support. Art of Commerce™ interfaces EDI transactions through an already established mapping interface that allows for EDI 850, 860, 855 Purchase Order and EDI 856 Advanced Ship Notice support in both an inbound trade customer interface flow and an outbound Vendor workflows. The system also supports the customer merchandise ticketing requirements complete with customer price and item information. The flow of information is complete and seamless and with no duplication of internal processes.