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Merchandising Software: Improving Merchandising Performance


Retailers in today’s fast-moving world are leveraging personal mobile devices to the field to optimize performance and control inventory. VisitBasis merchandising software is a complete retail management system to manage your merchandising operations with ease. Let’s consider in what ways VisitBasis merchandising software can help company reduce costs and increase productivity of merchandising operations.

Get Vital Marketing Strategies.
VisitBasis merchandising software provides fast and accurate store data collection using Android and iOS mobile devices. All the data collected at stores is automatically transferred to corporate database and is available for analysis. Integration with Google Big Query allows developing analytic reports for selling pattern analysis. Getting clear picture of retail conditions provide prerequisites for accurate sales forecasting, setting up goals and monitoring the implementation of the objectives to get vital marketing and promotional pricing strategies.

Reduce Your Inventory Costs.
Your merchandisers and managers always have access to the history of retail visits including the amounts of previous orders and returns. So merchandisers are able to better evaluate the needs of each store to place orders that make sense, and can better anticipate the volume of goods that must be delivered to retailers’ locations. Thus due to merchandising software implementation your company gets higher inventory turns, decreased inventory levels and reduced operating expenses due to lower inventory control.

Cut Operating Expenses.
VisitBasis merchandising software provides streamlined data workflow and improved real-time interactions between field team members. Automated data collection process allows focusing on retail execution and customers’ needs instead of paperwork and manual data entry. Minimizing mistakes and time for task performance provide reduce operating expenses by eliminating costly data reentry and retail data transfer delays.


Find out how VisitBasis can help you improve your merchandising performance. Register at www.visitbasis.com to get your free access to our merchandising software.


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