Storis Releases Vision R8.6

October 27, 2008  by in UnCategorized   

By Home Furnishings Business in Retail Technology on October 2008 Retail automation vendor Storis Management Systems, Mt. Arlington, N.J., announced on Monday the release of its newly enhanced Vision R8.6 software system.

The new version includes numerous business transforming enhancements to current products such as a completely redesigned financial applications, and new features including “Multi-Lingual” capability, Quick Launch Menu Bar, Menu Builder, and Line Item Delivery, in addition to revamped Merchandise Reservations and Forms Designer programs.

New R8.6 enhancements include:

• Accounts Payables: redesigned to provide retailers with a fully integrated, real-time payables processing solution. Feature-flexible options allow both small and large organizations to process invoices en masse or via the quick payment option. Expenditures can be paid using customized checks created in Forms Designer or posted against a credit card.

• General Ledger: enhanced with advanced file structure improvements that allow all Storis products to be completely integrated in real-time within one centralized database, without the need for a download or transmission interface. Additionally, the data access FGII tool, has been updated to support all General Ledger data on the Storis host server with spreadsheet logic to facilitate the presentation of both financial and comparative user-defined analytics; and a selection of three powerful accounting solutions: Storis’ General Ledger & Accounts Payable accounting system, XML Third Party Accounting system interfacing, or Intuit/QuickBooks integration.

• “Multi-Lingual” User Experience: offers the ability to customize a retailer’s experience with regards to multi-lingual translating. R8.6’s intuitive process allows users to quickly import translated text into screen presentations and files in English, Spanish, French, and others. Retailers can present translated screens throughout specific areas within the application.

• Quick Launch Icons: This new feature improves productivity and customer satisfaction by providing employees with quick, easy access to Storis processes. Each individual user on the system can establish their own customized, dynamically interactive icon pane of their favorite or most relevant programs, simply via a drag-and-drop mouse click.

• Menu Builder: a completely redesigned menu building feature, fully integrated with the Storis application. A system administrator can create tailored menu trees either from scratch or from copies of existing menus. Navigation through the entire listing of Storis’ programs has been enhanced with filtering capabilities that make it possible to establish a user or group of users in just a few minutes.

• Line Item Delivery: For those retailers who derive a substantial amount of business from contractors and design consultants, Storis added the ability to assign multiple delivery dates to sales orders, allowing for individual multi-quantity merchandise items to have several delivery dates assigned.

• Merchandise Reservations: expanded methodology to allow Estimated, Scheduled, ASAP Status, and Customer Will Call orders to reserve merchandise. Retailers can implement several different sets of business rules to control overstocked quantities while ensuring customers’ promised delivery dates are met.

• Forms Designer: enhanced features to allow retailers to create their own customized floor tags, bar code labels for inventory, and POS scanning, self-service tags, and more.

Storis, an IBM Business Partner, provides retail operations packages and service to more than 350 big-ticket retailers.