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Merchandiser Software: Overcoming Challenges in Merchandising Operations

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On a day-to-day basis, those who manage merchandising operations have to deal with many challenges that are complex to overcome, mostly because the business is all about supervising multiple people in multiple locations.

Challenges in merchandising include issues that could affect the outcome of thoroughly thought-out strategies, and eventually impact sales figures. Fraudulent check-ins by field merchandisers and reps is one of the most common issues faced by the business and up until recently difficult to deal with, since noticing something wrong meant going in detail through loads of paperwork.

VisitBasis Merchandiser Software virtually eliminates fraudulent check-ins among merchandising teams by allowing supervisors to track and monitor each field rep's activities in real time and by GPS and time-stamping every activity. It is a complete retail merchandising system designed to build, schedule and monitor field team activities in real time. It provides tools for all types of merchandising-related field activities, including field marketing, field sales, auditing, inspections, mystery shopping, surveying, POS asset management, training, sampling, and product demonstrations, among others.

To automate your merchandising operations create an account at www.visitbasis.com and download free VisitBasis Merchandiser App on Google Play and App Store.



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