Storis Launches New Vision R8 Release

March 5, 2007  by in UnCategorized   

By Home Furnishings Business in Retail Technology on March 2007 Retail technology vendor Storis Management Systems has launched Release 8.3, the latest version of its Windows-based product, Vision R8.

Doug Culmone, COO of Mt. Arlington, N.J.-based Storis said in a release that “8.3 is another indication of our strong commitment to delivering functionality requested by our customers, while delivering technology that gives our users a competitive edge.”

Enhanced 8.3 features include: a more intuitive and consistent overall structure, enhanced “smart” menus, a fully integrated shopping cart for customer order entry, enhanced regional and district distribution capabilities, an innovative vendor performance report, new WiFi hand-held bar-code capabilities, and more.

The new look and overall structure of 8.3 maximizes the screen area displaying the information retailers require to run an efficient business. Additionally, 8.3 offers improved navigation through a redesigned “smart” menu to give retailers information they need, and less of what they don’t. Various customer order entry screens such as the customer and system control settings, sales order, customer return, and exchange order entry have been redesigned for more intuitive user navigation.

The shopping cart feature for the sales order application replaces the previous method of entering and maintaining sales quotes, allowing for easy and flexible entry of “carts”--that is, quotes--into the system utilizing any of the three following options: Storis workstation within a retailer’s store, online through the eSTORIS Virtual Store, or through Storis’ portable, hand-held device, Mobile Vision. Fully integrated, the Shopping Cart allows for carts to be viewed systematically across all three options.

Otsuka’s Furniture and Appliances, located in Kapaa, Hawaii, was the beta site for 8.3. Evelyn Medina, Project Manager at Storis, said, “The amount of new functionality included in this release will greatly assist Otsuka’s operations in different areas, including Inventory Control with the new WiFi Hand Held Bar Code capability. Otsuka’s upgrade was very simple; the process was seamless.”

Release 8.3 is now available within Storis’ SaaS and Sever Business solutions, and will be demonstrated at the upcoming High Point Furniture Market.