PROFITsystems announces partnership with Exim Technologies to provide industry-standard EDI to retailers

Furniture World Magazine

PROFITsystems Inc. and Exim Technologies have partnered to provide the benefits of industry-standard XML Electronic Data Interchange to their thousands of retail clients. Exim recently announced a partnership with NHFA to work with their members, and PROFITsystems is currently initiating EDI with a number of major manufacturers on behalf of its clients. Exim can translate the output from PROFITwindows into any format required by the manufacturer. The benefits for the retailer include reduction in errors when entering sales and generating special order purchase orders, lower inventories, quicker order lead times, and increased customer satisfaction by using product configurators (video cataloging) during the sales process; and PROFITwindows integrates with both Prevue and Intellitek for product configuration. The benefits for manufacturers include reduced cost and errors from not having to hand-key PO's, shortened production cycles, and superior supply-chain management through data aggregation and warehousing. Because stock purchase orders are transmitted at electronic speed, as are acknowledgements and invoices, shortened reorder lead times result in reduced inventories and significantly reduced inventory carrying costs, which will pay for all the costs of the system several times over each year. In addition to higher profits for both manufacturers and retailers, shortened order lead times for both special order and stock purchase orders give retail customers better service and increase customer satisfaction significantly. Firms like Federated, Wal-Mart and Sears have long used EDI to cut costs and improve efficiencies. These benefits are now available to our industry and all sizes of dealers and manufacturers as well. Exim's XM Commerce solution provides cost effective, robust and reliable internet-based, seamless connectivity between retailers and manufacturers and requires no new investment in hardware or software systems. Designed to work with retailers of all sizes from small to large, Exim's XM Commerce solution has been selected by premier manufacturers and a large number of retailers in the home furnishings industry. PROFITsystems is the world’s leading provider of Windows - based retail furniture software. We continue to provide our clients with the very latest software features and functions, and the highest-quality support, at the lowest prices in the industry. For more information about PROFITwindows and seamless connectivity between dealers and manufacturers, call 800-888-5565 and ask for Brian McCarthy or Terry Nelson.