FurnServe Touting EDI

May 7, 2012  by in UnCategorized   

By Home Furnishings Business in on May 8, 2012 Software vendor FurnServe is introducing an EDI program it developed with Ashley Furniture to other retailers.

FurnServe, Chandler, Ariz., is promoting the interface, which is in beta with two retail clients, at this weeks Home Furnishings Industry Conference in Palm Springs, Calif.

The electronic data interchange package handles purchase orders, acknowledgments, shipping notices and invoices, shows real-time product availability, and updates catalogs automatically.

The Furnserve product also tracks the actual direct cost of the goods in the transactions it handles--versus last-in-first-out or first-in-first-out accounting--and the actual freight costs involved.

"So, our gross profit report shoes the actual gross profit based on the merchandise sold," said Tom Rhea, FurnServe president.