Educational Content
2022 Furniture Industry Trend Guide
As market conditions continue to change, it is time to master all channels: eCommerce, mobile, social, curb-side, today’s in-store. The 2022 Trend Guide provides a comprehensive look at Market Factors, Technology Trends, and the State of the Industry to help us all start 2022 off strong. New this year, the Trend Guide is packed with industry research from your home furnishings peers.Read the 2022 Trend Guide
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Streamline Your Distribution Centers with Cross-Docking
Elevate your incomparable team members by employing strategic retail technology to support their success. Technology can help the valuable members of your team perform more efficiently when conducting their jobs as well as support fast onboarding of new hires. Read the guide to discover how technology can be your team’s MVP.Read the Guide
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Factoring Freight in Home Furnishings Retail
The costing tools within your technology can be a valuable resource to monitor variable costs, manage accounting with accuracy, price to ensure margin attainment, and devise partner strategies. Read the guide to learn how retail freight and costing tools can provide a competitive advantage in a competitive market.Read the Freight Guide
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Hire Retail Technology: Your Team Player
Elevate your incomparable team members by employing strategic retail technology to support their success. Technology can help the valuable members of your team perform more efficiently when conducting their jobs as well as support fast onboarding of new hires. Read the guide to discover how technology can be your team’s MVP. -
Factoring Freight in Home Furnishings Retail
The costing tools within your technology can be a valuable resource to monitor variable costs, manage accounting with accuracy, price to ensure margin attainment, and devise partner strategies. Read the guide to learn how retail freight and costing tools can provide a competitive advantage in a competitive market. -
The Contactless and Safe Shopping Guide
Behind the front lines of your retail business is technology. Creating safe shopping environments through digital, self-service, and reduced-contact technologies is vital for successful showroom practices. Learn 8 ways technologies will support a contactless shopping experience and a safe retail environment. -
Reputation Management’s Value
A Reputation Management strategy provides retailers with the ability to shape their online identities. In our infographic, we discuss why a Reputation Management Program is valuable to your business and how POS integration is key to building a plentiful collection of reviews. -
Special Order Guide
Technology can help your customers create custom pieces. Software solutions empower retailers to build Special Order programs to expand their merchandise assortment. Learn 5 benefits Enhanced Special Order will bring to your business. -
Logistics and Delivery Fulfillment
Providing your customers with up-to-date delivery fulfillment information on availability, timing and cost can be the deciding factor of where they purchase. In the Ultimate Guide to Logistics and Delivery Fulfillment, learn how home furnishings retailers are focusing on new technologies. -
Design Your Furniture Website
With more furniture retailers having a presence on the web, it’s crucial to set your website apart. eCommerce has a significant role in creating a seamless customer experience. This guide highlights 12 steps that will help retailers develop a successful eCommerce website for home furnishings. -
The Future of Furniture Financing
Offering financing options expands the consumer market for retailers and helps more customers furnish their homes in the way they desire. Retailers can help make the shopping journey less stressful and more satisfying using technologies for financing. In our guide, discover 4 financing technologies for a seamless credit offering. -
CXM Sales Dashboard
In this infographic, discover 15 Customer Experience Management Sales Dashboard Views to take your sales team to the next level. Learn about tools to optimize the effectiveness and productivity of your sales team from anywhere on your showroom floor and beyond as they build long-term customer relationships.
Infographics
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The Ultimate Inventory Guide
STORIS helps retailers achieve 99% inventory accuracy and improve KPIs. In our Ultimate Inventory Guide, we provide insightful takeaways for control. -
Achieve Inventory Accuracy
This inventory guide provides tips for a smooth Physical Inventory including preparations, step by step instructions, and insights for year round success.
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The Holistic Approach to eCommerce
The ultimate goal of your website is to convert a virtual visitor into a loyal customer. In our infographic, we dive into specific web features to help your site succeed serving your customers along the various stages of a multi-channel journey. -
Discover Insights About The Next Generation
Instead of thinking about generations in isolation, organizations must understand patterns of consumer behavior and how they influence one another. Retailers need to compete digitally to remain relevant. -
Customer Experience Management (CXM)
Successful CXM is a game-changer for retail operations & sales associates alike. CXM is designed to establish brand loyalty & increase the lifetime value of a customer. Discover how to help your team build relationships with multi-channel shoppers. -
Fuel Your Business Intelligence
BI improves decision-making, increases operational efficiency & delivers a competitive advantage. In our guide, discover the benefits of BI including data accessibility, visualizations, mobility, & security. -
Kiosk: In-Store Technology
The Kiosk is here to elevate the in-store customer experience by merging the attributes of online shopping that customers love into the world of brick and mortar retailing. -
Maximize the Potential of Sales
The ability to offer discounts to your customers can be an integral part of a retail pricing strategy. Offering a potential customer the opportunity to save money is a proven way to capture their attention.
White Papers
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10 Steps for Software Implementation Success
When you partner with STORIS, you get more than just software. In our guide to Implementation Success, we highlight 10 steps for an achievable implementation. -
Why You Need the Latest Technology
Do you ever wonder about the impact on your business when inadequate software is utilized for years? Find out what revenue you could be leaving on the table. -
Gain the Greatest Return On Investment
Discover the positive impacts a leading retail furniture solution can have on your bottom line in “Gain the Greatest ROI from Your ERP Software.”
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15 Must-Have Buying Tools for Merchandisers
Your merchandising strategy directly influences revenue potential. In this guide, we highlight reports to dive into product performance. -
Just In Time Inventory Management
JIT inventory management allows you to maximize your on-hand inventory and capitalize on sales using key timing factors as the basis for strategic decision making. -
Advanced Warehouse Management System
Advanced Warehouse Management provides your warehouse staff with powerful tools for logistics and distribution. Learn about the positive impacts. -
EDI: Electronic Data Interchange
Retailers have the ability to streamline communications with strategic partners including vendors and manufacturers. Find out more about the benefits of EDI. -
Forms Designer
Having a branded presence across your documents gives your company a polished, professional look. Learn how to easily design customized forms. -
Intuitive Software That’s Easy to Use
In our guide to user friendly software, we help you recognize key software features that make software intuitive and improve productivity. -
Keeping Technology Fresh With Upgrades
Technology is integral to the shopping experience. Learn why having regularly enhanced technology can help you best engage with your customers. -
Virtual Productivity for Furniture Retailers
In this look at Virtual Productivity, we provide activities for various areas of operations that can be conducted in any market condition. -
Data Mining Now in the Cloud
Data Warehouse is one of the most powerful data mining tools in Business Intelligence. Learn more about how Data Warehouse can help you uncover BI. -
Benefits of Integrating Accounting & POS
Discover why using an integrated accounting & POS system can help your business achieve benefits including improving accuracy & saving time. -
5 Reasons To Prioritize EMV
Many retailers face the fear of falling victim to a credit card breach. Here we highlight 5 eye-opening reasons why you should implement EMV in your retail store.
Past Industry Trend Guides
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2021 Furniture Industry Trend Guide
How does your business shape the customer journey and earn the attention of digitally savvy customers? In the 2021 Trend Guide, we provide actionable tactics and takeaways from analyzing the holistic retail environment and state of the home furnishings industry. -
2020 Furniture Industry Trend Guide
As retail heads into a new decade, we review the State of the Industry and a 2020 Vision Plan. Discover the most in-depth guide yet, packed with 20 furniture industry-specific trends to help craft your 2020 retail strategy.
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2019 Industry Trend Guide
Customers want physical and technical experiences to co-exist in a way that adds value to their shopping journeys and convenience to their everyday lives. In our 2019 Furniture Industry Trend Guide, we review the State of the Industry, the Evolution of Retail, and 9 strategic technology initiatives. -
2018 Industry Trend Guide
Further adoption of innovative technologies, savvier websites, shifts in consumer behavior, and renewed in-store experiences. In our 2018 Industry Trend Guide, we highlight these key influencers of the marketplace and shed light on actionable strategy for retailers. -
The 2017 Industry Trend Guide
Discover the Ultimate Guide to Unified Commerce in the Home Furnishings Industry. Retail has experienced a fundamental shift. Retailers can capitalize on this important retail strategy with 30+ tactics highlighted in our guide to Unified Commerce.
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