POS Retail Sales and Inventory Reporting Solutions
ERS is a service-oriented business that helps retailers, suppliers, and brands turn their inventory faster, forecast more accurately, and provide deeper visibility into sales. We are passionate about collecting, integrating, and interpreting data to improve our clients’ merchandise decision-making ability.
Why Companies Work With ERS
Our clients are passionate about collecting, integrating and interpreting POS and inventory data to improve their merchandise decision-making ability.
Most companies cannot accomplish that on their own. They need expertise, technology and the engagement of knowledgeable experts to make it happen. Our solutions are not “off-the-shelf” – they are curated and designed differently
to provide better results.
Trusted by Retailers, Brands, and Suppliers
ERS is proud to support long-standing relationships with retailers, suppliers, distributors, and brands across categories. Many of our clients have partnered with us for over a decade, reflecting the trust, flexibility, and ongoing value we bring to retail analytics, inventory planning, and forecasting.
Smarter Tools. Smarter Planning. Better Results.
We deeply understand the retail industry, sales analysis and inventory planning.
POS Retail Analytics
Turn retailer POS data into clear sales performance insights across items, stores, channels, departments, and brands. ERS helps teams identify trends, measure sell-through, uncover lost sales, and make better retail planning decisions from the data they already collect.
Inventory Planning Solutions
Improve inventory planning with better visibility into sales, stock levels, receipts, weeks of supply, and future inventory needs. ERS helps retailers, suppliers, and brands plan inventory flow more accurately across retail and wholesale channels.
Open to Buy
One of the most essential functions in retail inventory planning just got easier. Combining the strength of ERS’ backend data management and intelligence with Microsoft’s Power BI enables retailers and manufacturers to manage inventory budgets not possible with spreadsheets.
Custom Dashboards & Reporting
Create custom retail dashboards, Power BI reports, scorecards, and analytics tools built around the way your business actually makes decisions. ERS turns complex POS, inventory, ERP, and third-party data into clear, actionable, and easy-to-share reporting views.
Retail Narrative AI
Use Retail Narrative AI to translate complex retail data into plain-English summaries, insights, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions. ERS blends artificial intelligence with retail expertise so teams can understand what changed, why it matters, and what to do next.
Vendor Managed Inventory
Support vendor-managed inventory programs with better visibility into retail sales, store-level demand, inventory health, and replenishment needs. ERS helps suppliers and brands make smarter ordering recommendations, improve allocation, reduce lost sales, and keep inventory aligned with demand.
Ladder Planning – A Retailer Must Have
For planners who need to consistently monitor sales, inventory and profitability of their retail programs. Additionally, conduct “what-if” scenarios to help determine the optimal pricing and inventory flow.
Helping Clients Achieve Their Goals
Our software business benefits greatly from our consulting business and vice versa. Consulting clients get the benefit of the results of sophisticated software tools without having to use it. Our software clients get 24/7 access to those tools. And both get the benefit of being able to talk to a consultant.
Many of our client relationships are well over a decade. It’s because we are engaged with them and constantly strive to help them achieve their goals.
Solutions
We understand that every client is slightly different. Even though their challenges may be similar to other clients, the way we approach it is flexible.
Complete toolkit for retailers, planners, buyers, suppliers, licensors, distributors, and brands. Our solutions include POS analytics, reporting, dashboards, forecasting, and more.
It starts with the data
All your POS data, managed in one place. Virtually any format.
We’ll help you collect, scrub, scrutinize and validate all your POS data. Integrates with all the major retailers through EDI or data from web portals (Target, Kohl’s JCPenney, Macy’s, Best Buy, Meijer, Dillard’s, Home Depot, Walmart, etc.).
Don’t have POS data but have data on what you shipped? That will work too. We can also integrate with wholesale inventory or any other 3rd party data on one platform.
Are You Leaving Money on the Table? Determine your Lost Sales
Pinpoint opportunities to improve in-stocks and forecasting accuracy by quantifying lost sales with our Lost Sales reporting and Dashboards. Go from Data to Decisions, without all the noise.
All In One Inventory Planning – A Modern Aproach
Everything you need to plan and manage inventory on a platform made for the future. Easy integration with virtually any ERP system.
The Launchpad
The start page- fully customizable for your business. Shows the key information you need- sales and inventory. Year over Year, Week over Week, any time period. Custom attributes and channel information. Buttons that take you directly to the functions you need.
Monthly Demand Plan
Projected inventory by month with estimated sales and recommended buys. Lead time, WIP, seasonality and other smart features make it accurate and easy to use. A Buy sheet that contains units, cost and whatever information you require to place orders.
Alerts
An intelligent system that quantifies lost sales, inventory above and below targets and creates a priority list to take action. Items and stores most predicted to be out of stock.
Item Performance with Recommended Actions
The reports show you what to do based on an advanced ranking system and inventory health criteria. Created by inventory experts who live and breathe retail and wholesale planning every day.
AI Visualizations
Programmed to find opportunities and liabilities using ERS’ Retail Narrative engine. It also takes advantage of Microsoft’s powerful AI models to find trends in your data.
See Where Your Inventory is Going
Project inventory to see how long you will be in or out of stock by item.
All Automated. All Actionable. All Yours.
Introducing Retail Narrative 3.0. A practical application of AI that can help you increase sales, reduce markdowns and make your inventory more productive. An advanced tool to pour through your POS data, find opportunities and liabilities that would otherwise go unnoticed, and then provide a brief summary of your business and recommended actions.
See What Your Retail Data can do
with the Right Tools Behind it.
ERS helps your team make sense of sales, inventory, and forecasting data so you can plan with more confidence and make better merchandising decisions.