How do ECRS and Cardinal Health facilitate easier inventory management?
Meyers: Before the ECRS and Cardinal Health partnership and the resulting SIS technology, we had a very ineffective method of maintaining inventory. We are a very busy store, and we would end up just doing inventory as we had time. I would assign the task to someone who would walk around with a wand, and they would see what needed to be ordered. We didn’t really keep track of what we were actually selling. It very was inefficient. The front-end merchandise accounts for about 10% of our business. It may seem like a small thing, but it is actually very important, and a large part of the business. With Automatic Replenishment, if we sell something it is replaced the next day. It is a very flexible system, so I could actually choose to manage inventory in a variety of ways to suit my business needs. The system provides an easy, painless solution for maintaining inventory. This, in turn, provides more time for other store operational needs and provides customers with the product they need,
