Furniture retailer deploying warehouse management solution from GERS in bid to boost productivity, inventory accuracy
San Diego — August 23, 2004 — Sam Levitz Furniture in Tucson, Ariz. is integrating a warehouse management solution from GERS into its inventory solution in a bid to gain better control over its inventory.
The furniture retailer is integrating GERS' Warehouse Management Module (WMM) into its GERS Inventory solution. GERS said that WMM automates the labor-intensive tasks of receiving, transferring and cycle counting of inventory.
Features such as interleaving, lockout and directed putaway can increase warehouse personnel productivity, GERS said. RF technology provides real-time access to quantity, location and storage requirements for individual items of merchandise, each one of which can have its own serialized ID number for precise tracking.
"We estimate that running our warehouse with GERS' WMM will save at least 10 percent in labor costs and produce a dramatic improvement in the accuracy of our inventory," said Eric Creson, vice president and chief financial officer Sam Levitz.
"We're also looking forward to improving customer service by speeding up customer pickups, which account for 15-20 percent of our business," Creson added. "The interleaving feature of GERS' WMM allows multiple lift operators to pull customer orders on their way back from putting away merchandise, which we expect to significantly reduce our customers wait time."
Sam Levitz also is moving to the latest version of GERS' Inventory and Merchandising solution, 10.4, which includes an Oracle upgrade. In addition, they are adding GERS' Private Label Finance solution to improve customer service by speeding third-party credit transactions at the point of sale and to increase productivity by eliminating duplication and reducing manual processing, errors and the time and labor required for add-on authorizations and end-of-day settlements.
"The upgrades and new solutions we're implementing for Sam Levitz will enable them to increase productivity and performance in all areas of their operation to the betterment of their bottom line," said Phil Kenney, vice president of marketing for GERS Retail Systems.
San Diego — August 23, 2004 — Sam Levitz Furniture in Tucson, Ariz. is integrating a warehouse management solution from GERS into its inventory solution in a bid to gain better control over its inventory.
The furniture retailer is integrating GERS' Warehouse Management Module (WMM) into its GERS Inventory solution. GERS said that WMM automates the labor-intensive tasks of receiving, transferring and cycle counting of inventory.
Features such as interleaving, lockout and directed putaway can increase warehouse personnel productivity, GERS said. RF technology provides real-time access to quantity, location and storage requirements for individual items of merchandise, each one of which can have its own serialized ID number for precise tracking.
"We estimate that running our warehouse with GERS' WMM will save at least 10 percent in labor costs and produce a dramatic improvement in the accuracy of our inventory," said Eric Creson, vice president and chief financial officer Sam Levitz.
"We're also looking forward to improving customer service by speeding up customer pickups, which account for 15-20 percent of our business," Creson added. "The interleaving feature of GERS' WMM allows multiple lift operators to pull customer orders on their way back from putting away merchandise, which we expect to significantly reduce our customers wait time."
Sam Levitz also is moving to the latest version of GERS' Inventory and Merchandising solution, 10.4, which includes an Oracle upgrade. In addition, they are adding GERS' Private Label Finance solution to improve customer service by speeding third-party credit transactions at the point of sale and to increase productivity by eliminating duplication and reducing manual processing, errors and the time and labor required for add-on authorizations and end-of-day settlements.
"The upgrades and new solutions we're implementing for Sam Levitz will enable them to increase productivity and performance in all areas of their operation to the betterment of their bottom line," said Phil Kenney, vice president of marketing for GERS Retail Systems.
