GERS Inventory provides real-time inventory information to decision makers throughout the organization to support and validate merchandising plans, maximize sales and GMROI, and minimize stock-outs and markdowns. Ultimately, precise inventory control enables retailers to realize the full potential of their inventory investments while providing a more satisfying shopping experience for their customers.

Real-Time Inventory Management Supports Critical Micro-merchandising Decisions
Detailed, up-to-the-second knowledge of every inventory transaction, including reservations, sales, returns, purchases, advance shipping notices, receipts, distributions, transfers, cycle counts, and repairs, ensures that all decision makers have the best information possible when deciding which products are right for which stores at what price points. One single source of inventory information in support of all selling channels guarantees that a single version of the truth is available to all decision makers and fulfillment centers. GERS Inventory delivers real-time inventory information to merchants making the critical merchandising decisions that drive their organization's performance.

Analysis
Sophisticated Inventory Analysis delivers sales-to-stock ratios, key item exception analysis, weeks-of-supply, and out-of-stock identification to enable merchants to intensify assortments at the appropriate locations, at the proper time. The ability to analyze customer response patterns and tailor promotions and price changes according to demand cycles makes it possible to protect margins and drive sales at every store.

Replenishment
Powerful replenishment capabilities trigger automatic responses to sales trends to ensure optimum stock positions, minimal stock outs, and continually satisfied customers and store managers. Replenishment analyzes historical information and automatically transforms the data to accurately predict future requirements, supporting one-step new product forecasting, seasonal purchasing, and "what-if" analysis for advanced scenario management. User-defined business rules and sophisticated algorithms facilitate stock levels that optimize cash flow, assortments, and selection. Flexible scheduling and workflow options deliver responsive processes to maintain a consistent flow of responsive inventory to all sales locations and channels.

Allocation
Inventory Allocation accurately predicts and distributes merchandise that reflects the unique characteristics of each store's demand profile to increase sales. Allocation leverages sophisticated methodology that automatically calculates precise store assortments, thus diminishing distribution cycle time to meet and exceed customers' expectations. Inventory Allocation is a tightly integrated, highly productive solution that accurately converts planned or actual performance data into
recommended distributions that reflect optimal sales objectives and unique market characteristics and product mix to deliver the best return on inventory investments.

Inventory Monitoring and Cost Control
Comprehensive inventory monitoring and controls deliver complete visibility into every movement of every item throughout the entire inventory life cycle. Flexible cost management applications deliver tight margin controls and timely notification of cost fluctuations and margin-impacting incidents. Comprehensive and flexible retail stock ledger applications deliver adaptable retail methods and accounting tools to merchandising, financial, and operations decision makers across the organization to ensure accurate cost accounting and margin management for every item in inventory.