Merchandising Software - 4 ways to Save Time and Reduce Expenses

Mobile applications for retail data collection can help companies optimize merchandising performance and control inventory. VisitBasis merchandising software is a complete retail data collection solution to manage your merchandising activities with ease. VisitBasis merchandising software solution helps businesses reduce costs and increase productivity of merchandising operations.

Our customers use VisitBasis merchandising software to streamline data workflow, get real-time picture of retail conditions and enhance interaction between office managers and field representatives. Below you can find information on how VisitBasis merchandising software helps companies save time and reduce expenses.

Save Time to Improve Productivity. When merchandisers are able to use their own mobile devices to perform tasks at retail locations, they collect retail data faster and concentrate on customers, not paperwork. Automated scheduling, fast data entry, instant data transfer to corporate database, analytic capabilities, and route optimization are among those time savers that allow your merchandisers and their managers to drive greater efficiency and improve your company’s bottom line.
Save Money on Data Collection Devices. SaaS merchandising mobile solutions for Android & iOS tablets and smartphones allow BYOD strategy implementation, so your company saves money on hardware (no need to buy mobile devices, your merchandisers can use those they already have), IT costs (no need in servers and IT staff) and training (your merchandisers use the devices they already know how to operate).
Reduce Operating Expenses. When using a merchandising software solution the managers and supervisors get an ability to manage both inventory and sales data for each retail location. Sales and marketing departments can use merchandising software simultaneously, which saves money and strengthens cooperation between the managers. Merchandising software allows manage all data collection operations from one easy-to-use system, so you can save on scheduling, analytic software, GPS-tracking systems for field staff, order processing applications and more. Cloud merchandising software vendors offer free Cloud data storage as part of their service, so you can also save on data storage costs.
Cut Your Inventory Costs. Merchandising software provides merchandisers and their managers with access to the history of retail visits. Always having at hand the information on merchandising audits, amounts of previous order quantities and product returns, the managers are able to better evaluate the needs of stores and anticipate the volume of goods that must be delivered to each retail location. In this way merchandising software allows your company to get higher inventory turns, decrease inventory levels and reduce operating expenses due to lower inventory control.

VisitBasis merchandising software is a complete retail data collection system to manage your merchandising activities in the field. VisitBasis uses the latest Cloud technology, which means your retail data is accessible to you at any time, from anywhere. VisitBasis merchandising software is designed for Android and iOS tablets and smartphones, which allows implementing BYOD strategy to reduce hardware and staff training costs. Easy access to retail data for managers and merchandisers provides actionable insights for your business to manage it more effectively and improve the bottom line. Register account at www.visitbasis.com today to get your free access to merchandising software.

Implementing Sustainable Merchandising

In the factory-to-customer cycle, merchandising is one of the most wasteful processes. From the fuel consumed by field reps to the amount of paper used in traditional audits and surveys, on top of promotional and seasonal displays, it is easy to see why merchandising is considered “eco-unfriendly”. A field merchandising app can make a world of difference when it comes to sustainability. By adopting a field merchandising app, CPG and FMCG businesses can expect the following: Virtually eliminate the use of paper in in-store activities such as planogram checks, audits, surveys, and orders, among others. A state-of-the-art field merchandising app will also allow for instant access to the data collected, slashing the time and cost spent on data entry. Considerable savings in rep travel time and fuel thanks to the route optimization functions of field merchandising apps that automatically calculate the shortest store rounds. A cross-platform field merchandising app will all

Cloud for Retail Execution: Make Away with Data Storage Costs

Why Go Paperless? In order to store 2 million paper documents, an organization can expect to spend between $40,000 and $60,000 on filing cabinets alone. Those same files could fit on fewer than ten CD-ROMs (Business Guide to Paper Reduction) . If we assume that a filing cabinet uses from 6 to 20 square feet of space and the office space costs $23 per square foot , the space for a one filing cabinet will cost a company $1656– 5520 per year . How to Go Paperless? When you choose paperless data collection your data storage costs can be significantly reduced or even brought to zero. Digital data collected using mobile forms require much less space than paper sheets and therefore cost less money. With the development of mobile technology you don’t need CDs or any other data carriers to store and access your data. More and more companies opt for Cloud storage. The price of Cloud storage starts at $0.01 GB per month and the average number of MS Word pages per GB is 64782.

Solving Information Loss in Merchandising Once and For All

Information loss used to be an inevitable consequence of retail merchandising. With many field reps performing a number of tasks on each one of the stores in their individual territories, it is easy to see how the amount of data collected on the field grows exponentially and is, therefore, increasingly difficult to handle and more subject to information loss. Mobile merchandising software is the ideal solution to information loss in retail merchandising. When businesses implement a mobile merchandising software solution, they prevent information loss in the following stages of data processing: Data collection It is easy to see how information can get lost in traditional pen-and-paper merchandising. With mobile merchandising software, field reps perform tasks such as filling out forms and taking pictures in their mobile devices, leading to less misunderstanding and mix-ups. Data transcription With mobile merchandising software, there is no data transcription. The information goe

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