Retailer and Mass Merchant Management

Large retailers and mass merchants - Home Depot, Wal-Mart, Target, Sears, Federated Department Stores, Linens-n-Things, and others - have the power to create and change markets. Apprise Distribution mass merchant management gives you the tools and expertise you need to capitalize on changing market conditions and meet emerging retail and mass merchant customer requirements - enabling you to serve customers seamlessly, efficiently, and with maximum profitability.

Key benefits include:

Enhanced customer flexibility

• Apprise Software’s industry expertise provides you with the insights you need to establish or optimize retailer and mass merchant relationships.
• Flexible rule-based environment gives you the tools necessary to meet the unique requirements of each customer while maximizing returns from each relationship. Including customer specific pricing, credit, collection, and chargeback terms.
• Prioritize and allocate inventory on a customer level basis, create unique shipping and retail labels, and offer a wide array of products with flexible shipping and payment options.

Ability to meet changing market needs

• Ongoing innovation and leading-edge technology ensure you have the capabilities you need when your customers demand them and that you are able to adapt to changing industry and market standards, such as Sunrise 2005 and RFID, on demand and without business interruption.
• EDI capabilities enable you to interface with customers for sales, shipment, payment, inventory, point-of-sale (POS), and forecasting information.

Improved customer profitability

• Real-time information systems provide the depth of insight you need to track, manage, and maximize profitability at the parent company, store, region, and product level.
• Integrated sales, shipping, and forecasting information enables you to meet your customers’ inventory demands and maximize revenue potential.
• Define customer-specific business rules to track and reduce chargebacks for improved receivables performance and increased profitability.

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