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™ has been designed for the digital age through the incorporation of Image++ in the merchandising engine. We named it Image++ because it is more than just a digital image associated with your merchandise database. Image++ is a chain of digital objects that are stored as Digital Images, Rich Text Descriptions, Retail Signs, web pages and anything else that can exist in document format stored within your business database, not in files. From Word processing documents to Spreadsheets, Computer Aided Design (CAD) Documents and Portable Documents (PDF). If it can be produced it can be stored and made available to the entire enterprise such as front and back images, custom formatted descriptions with your fonts, sizes and colors, a spreadsheets for custom ordering information, legal waivers, warrantee documents, PDF specification documents, Consumer Questionnaires, Sound Bytes, Video Files. Collaboration throughout the enterprise managed at the same level as prices, descriptions and universal product codes. Image++ also extends our product navigation tools so that products can be browsed in image list fashion as well as your central source for multi-media product information and Internet Objects.

The Art of Commerce™ Product Explorer is also known as the "Finder" is a central and invaluable tool that is part of every CapeTown Enterprise component. It allows the users of the system unlimited access to the merchandise information for the purposes of completing day to day processing and analysis activities. The Finder allows each user to custom configure the columns presented in the display and the sort order of that data without limitation. The data itself can be viewed at the global Client level, Line of Business level, store level and store organization and group level (when bound to a particular Line of Business). The data may be filtered in any number of ways by selecting criteria or by allowing the Navigator to do the work by selecting branches from the Merchandise Hierarchy or the Strategic Business Unit Navigator trees.

The Product Explorer also allows for such information as quantity on hand, on sales order, on purchase order, in transit, etc, and to complete the power of this tool all filtered data can be copied and pasted to your favorite spreadsheet or word processing application or any other application. This allows for unlimited possibilities for analysis and reporting.

The Art of Commerce™ The Merchandise Catalog is a tool that saves time in the creation of Sales Orders, Purchase Orders and Transfer Orders and allows the merchandise to be navigated the way people perceive it instead of the way systems do. Entries take place by indicating quantities beside the item in question and the items are presented in a predefined sequence using the merchandise hierarchy and additional sorting options. Combined with the Navigator windows for filtering and finding the first items within each section allow the salesperson to have the entire database at their fingertips and items are quickly found.