Overview: Markets for Retail Management
Retail management software is a powerful tool that will help a wide range of businesses take control of their workplaces through organization, reporting, and automated actions. It comes equipped with a vast array of features and components designed to handle the most basic and the most specific functions in your business environment. But for those who are unfamiliar with software like this, it can be a bit confusing to understand how and where it can be applied. Here’s a quick overview of some types of retail markets that can benefit from RMS and how they can improve:
Apparel: Clothing stores require intelligent planning and a powerful sales module to make things run smoothly. Retail management software can help you plan out which articles of clothing will sell best at what times and in what areas. It will help you with size analysis and has the features necessary to operate a pre-owned sales section. Open to Buy will let you know what’s ready to be sold, and user-definable attributes in Product Management will allow you to make any specific notes you may have on a given piece of apparel.
Footwear: RMS can offer the ability to pre-pack and ship that way so that you have the right stock of size, style, and color you need at any given location from the beginning. The software will help you organize your storage space so everything fits and it’s easy to find, and it will also help you decide which shoes and of what sizes to put in the store front.
Sporting Goods: User-definable attributes make organizing by season, sport, team, etc. a breeze. The central database will help you make the changes you need to optimize your sales by promoting items that are most popular at a given time.
Department Stores: Retail management software has functionality at multiple levels: chain-wide, location-specific, and even by department. You can sort products by section easily and get them stocked and replenished without hassle every single time.
These are just a few examples of target markets that can benefit from an integrated retail management system. Check out the Markets page for more examples of how ChainDrive can help you!