Jones Apparel Rolls Out E-Commerce Solution
Jones Apparel Group launches a new e-commerce and in-store collaboration technology using VendorNet's StoreNet Manager. The application enables the automated fulfillment of e-commerce orders utilizing bricks and mortar store inventory essentially making corporate-wide inventory available for sale on the Web.
"The implementation of VendorNet StoreNet Manager is part of Jones Apparel Group's overall strategy to fulfill sales on our e-commerce platform by optimizing our current inventory to meet online demand and deliver best-in-class customer service," states Ron Offir, president of e-commerce for Jones Apparel Group. "Its technology is helping us improve service to our customers by showing web shoppers inventory across all channels and capturing demand that may otherwise have been a lost opportunity."
Jones Apparel Group rolled out VendorNet StoreNet Manager to its Nine West (www.ninewest.com) stores in a six week period this summer. It expects to have more than 500 stores across all its brands live by the end of 2008, including its newly e-commerce enabled Jones New York (www.jny.com) Web site. VendorNet StoreNet Manager interfaces with Jones Apparel Group's order management, e-commerce and retail merchandising systems. Online orders that cannot be fulfilled from warehouse inventory are electronically transmitted to the tool, which routes the order to the best available store for fulfillment based on Jones-defined store allocation rules.
"The implementation of VendorNet StoreNet Manager is part of Jones Apparel Group's overall strategy to fulfill sales on our e-commerce platform by optimizing our current inventory to meet online demand and deliver best-in-class customer service," states Ron Offir, president of e-commerce for Jones Apparel Group. "Its technology is helping us improve service to our customers by showing web shoppers inventory across all channels and capturing demand that may otherwise have been a lost opportunity."
Jones Apparel Group rolled out VendorNet StoreNet Manager to its Nine West (www.ninewest.com) stores in a six week period this summer. It expects to have more than 500 stores across all its brands live by the end of 2008, including its newly e-commerce enabled Jones New York (www.jny.com) Web site. VendorNet StoreNet Manager interfaces with Jones Apparel Group's order management, e-commerce and retail merchandising systems. Online orders that cannot be fulfilled from warehouse inventory are electronically transmitted to the tool, which routes the order to the best available store for fulfillment based on Jones-defined store allocation rules.