Vision Information Logistics has built automated interfaces with numerous field merchandising companies and is proud to use these partnerships to further improve the supply chain efficiency in either a vendor-managed environment or a category management situation. The result has been a field merchandising management solution with the following benefits:

• Orders that are created in our system, in addition to being communicated to the retailer or vendor, can be communicated to the field merchandising team along with critical information such as anticipated delivery date(s) and special display instructions. This helps to better coordinate in-store visits and ensures that field merchandising resources are utilized to maximum effectiveness.
• As product orders and point-of-purchase materials are shipped, Vision Information Logistics communicates daily with the field service organization to not only synchronize the delivery process, but facilitate the transfer of information such as shelf placement and individual store merchandising guidelines.
• Vision Information Logistics provides clients the ability to receive actual returns data directly from the field merchandising team. This allows for quicker reaction to constant inventory adjustments and provides a means of reconciliation between the product that was pulled from the store and product that actually is recorded back at the receiving warehouse.
• Similarly, clients working in partnership with Vision Information Logistics have the ability to communicate recommended quantities and other relevant and critical information pertaining to a suggested pullback of product with the stores directly. This helps to reduce costly situations involving excessive overstock.

Field merchandising is an important step in the sale process, regardless of whether you are approaching the challenge from the retailer's or vendor's perspective. Make the most of it with the help of Vision Information Logistics. Contact us today to learn more!