United Fashions Of Texas Selects NSB's Enterprise Solutions For Its Growing Melrose Chain
Fashion apparel retailer United Fashions of Texas, Ltd. (UFOT), which operates under the Melrose banner, has selected the Connected Retailer® suite of enterprise solutions to enhance performance throughout their 80-store retail chain. The agreement includes NSB's Planning, Merchandising, Warehouse Management, and Sales Analytics solutions.
The agreement was inspired by UFOT's need to integrate their merchandising operations with a single, leading-edge solutions suite that would support their established, business-specific processes. These processes remain important to the retailer's operations, but managing them with disparate systems had become an impediment to efficiency and growth.
"We credit our success to a number of the business processes we have in place today," says John Carlson, Controller for United Fashions of Texas. "NSB's Connected Retailer software accommodates all these critical processes and is well suited to the needs of our business. Our selection of their enterprise suite was also based on our positive experience with NSB's legacy Merchandising system and our proven relationship with the company."
NSB's David Henning, Senior Vice-President of the Enterprise Business Unit, agrees that there continues to be an excellent fit between the two firms. "Our latest agreement with United Fashions of Texas reflects NSB's success in developing products that keep pace with the changing needs of our clients," he says. "We are pleased to have this opportunity to expand our services to UFOT for many years to come."
As with all of NSB's Connected Retailer solutions, those selected by United Fashions of Texas will enable them to easily track, analyze, and leverage critical business information.
- Planning will provide rich visual tools for developing inventory models that maximize sales while minimizing risks.
- Merchandising will synchronize key retail functions with flexible, scalable tools, including .NET Allocation and Replenishment and .NET Purchase Order Management.
- Warehouse Management will allow UFOT to track and locate merchandise in real time, around the clock, dramatically increasing the speed and accuracy with which stock flows from receiving through distribution to store shelves.
- Sales Analytics will provide a central repository of accurate transaction data from all channels and devices, utilizing Connected Retailer Sales Audit, Flash Sales, and Loss Prevention.
About United Fashions of Texas
United Fashions, operating under the Melrose banner, has more than 80 stores in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California. Fashion and value are key ingredients to the success of the growing Melrose chain, as is their ability to focus on and react quickly to the local needs and tastes of a predominately Hispanic customer base.
About NSB Group
NSB Group is a total solutions provider for retailers of apparel, footwear, and specialty merchandise. Backed by more than 30 years of success, we work as partners with our clients to map clear paths from where they are to where they'd like to be, and we equip them to get there.
NSB's acclaimed Connected Retailer® suite includes Planning, Merchandising, Sourcing and Product Development, CRM, Sales Analytics, Store Operations, and POS, plus hardware and comprehensive client services - from consulting and development to implementation, training, and 24/7 support. The Connected Retailer® can be implemented at the client as fully configurable best-of-breed solutions or as preconfigured Xpress solutions. Alternatively, through our Managed Services offering, the Connected Retailer can be hosted and maintained by NSB. For more information about the NSB Group and our Connected Retailer® solutions, visit our Web site at www.nsbgroup.com.