Jesta I.S. Announces New Functionality In Vision Merchandising 10.0

Jesta I.S., a leading supplier of business solutions for the soft goods and specialty markets, announced today its latest release of Vision Merchandising. Vision Merchandising 10.0 contains new modules for Assortment Planning and Allocation, improved functionality and security around purchase order creation. It also features a more flexible inventory control module, further enhanced ease-of-use, and various other improvements to processes and performance.

"The Assortment Planning and Allocation modules make Vision Merchandising an even more appealing and logical choice for SMB retailers. Since Vision Planning is a module of Vision Merchandising, no integration is required. We believe this aligns well with the growing demand by the SMB market to reduce the number of software integration points," stated Leslie Belcher, President of Jesta I.S.

"With the addition of these two modules, Jesta I.S.' retail customers can benefit from the newest tools and best practices within their familiar Vision platform. Assortment Planning and Allocation are particularly well suited to our specialty customers and also equally beneficial to all retail customers," commented Nicholas Cherney, Director of Product Marketing for Jesta I.S.

"Over the past year development for Vision Merchandising has included validation on Oracle RAC (Real Application Clusters) allowing our customers to deploy a single database across a cluster of servers resulting in absolute fault tolerance. Assortment Planning and Allocation along with improved usability through the GUI, enhanced security and financial control, keeps Vision Merchandising inline with the latest industry best practices," added Arvind Gupta, VP of Development for Jesta I.S.

Allocation
Vision Merchandising's Allocation module follows the latest best practices for merchandise allocation. The new module enables users to allocate a known quantity of merchandise, be it on-hand or on an incoming ASN in a timely manner. Key capabilities include the calculation of store grade groups by sales volume, the ability to select alternate history, the use of multiple allocation algorithms, and store/style protection and exclusion filters.

Users of Vision Merchandising's Allocation module can quickly push styles through the module and allocate items to stores using various methods that leverage sales and inventory history to optimize inventory balancing by location.

Assortment Planning
Vision Merchandising's Assortment Planning module breaks the dollar and unit plan into components enabling retailers to identify customer needs at the style/color/attribute level. Customer choices are an output of the Vision pre-season planning process. Merchandisers can build assortments from the ground up, compare plans against the merchandise dollar and unit plans, execute the final assortment, and automatically generating purchase orders in Vision Merchandising.

About Jesta I.S.
Jesta I.S. is a leading supplier of business solutions leveraging more than 35 years of expertise in supply chain management systems for manufacturers, distributors and retailers primarily in the soft goods and specialty industries worldwide. Jesta I.S. is recognized for its expertise, innovative products and services and its commitment to evolving business solutions in today's rapidly changing business world. Jesta I.S.' solutions process essential business management information for well known industry leaders including Perry Ellis International, Genesco Inc, Town Shoes Limited, Tween Brands Inc., Cole Haan, Haggar Clothing Co., Cavender's Boot City and Maidenform as well as many others. Additional information is available at www.jestais.com.

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