Bob's Stores Partners with Edifice to Enhance POS Reporting and Supplier Collaboration Initiative

Enhanced POS data-sharing and reporting service will enable Bob’s Stores and its suppliers to collaborate more effectively and increase sales, margin and turn

RIVERDALE, NJ - Nov. 12, 2009 - Edifice Information Management, an information services company that enables retailers and suppliers to collaborate more effectively on point-of-sale (POS), inventory, and supply-chain data, today announced that it has partnered with Bob’s Stores to provide its suppliers with an expanded set of sales and inventory data. Effective immediately, suppliers to Bob’s Stores will be able to access this information through reports, dashboards and data extracts directly from Edifice.

Through this comprehensive, cost-effective and collaborative reporting program, Bob’s Stores and its suppliers will be able to gain consumer and merchandising insights faster and more efficiently. Both parties will be able to use the information strategically to plan optimal assortments and promotions for upcoming seasons. They will also be able to experience immediate ROI by avoiding missed sales and unnecessary markdowns in the current season.

“Edifice provides us with a much more efficient and cost-effective method to generate, distribute and analyze consumer-demand and merchandising information,” said Kelly Toussaint, president of Bob’s Stores. “By expanding the attributes and metrics we provide to our suppliers via Edifice, we can collaborate with them on more fact-based and meaningful analysis and then work together to improve sales, margin and turn for our mutual businesses.”

“We are honored to have Bob’s Stores as a retailer partner,” said David Pesce, vice president of business intelligence, Edifice Information Management. “The Edifice service enables their buyers to tailor reports and analysis to complement existing internal reporting systems. And by offloading the supplier reporting process to Edifice, Bob’s Stores will be able to cut reporting costs, reduce time spent debating data issues with suppliers, and focus more of their resources on higher-value data analysis and supplier relations.”

Bob’s Stores encourages all suppliers to participate in this program and many have already begun including Levis Straus, Nike, Penguin Brands, Phillips-Van Heusen, Sketcher’s and the Timberland Company. Setup is fast and simple. Learn more about the Bob’s Stores program today, by contacting Edifice at +1 973-616-2929.

About Edifice Information Management
Edifice is an information services company that enables retailers and suppliers to collaborate more effectively on point-of-sale (POS), inventory, and supply-chain data. Through our data sharing, reporting and analysis, and support services, we enable retailers and suppliers to work from a common data set to identify opportunities for increasing sales, optimizing inventory and reducing costs. Our service is free for retailers and affordable for all suppliers — small and large — and our fully hosted model means that our customers don’t have to invest in additional hardware, software or systems.