
- AIRS® Business Intelligence/Reporting
- AIRS® Inventory Cost Management
- AIRS® Perpetual Inventory Management
- AIRS® Customer Relationship Management
- AIRS® Price and Promotions Management
- AIRS® Administrative Reporting
- AIRS® Store Operations
- AIRS® Item Management
- AIRS® Enterprise Management
- AIRS® Point of Service
- AIRS® Mobile POS
- AIRS® Catalog Order Management
- AIRS® e-Commerce/Web-store

Business
Intelligence/Reporting
AIRS® Business
Intelligence/Reporting is
the gold standard for
Business
Intelligence/Reporting for
modern retailing. AIRS®
business intelligence
includes a very wide-ranging
set of the collection,
consolidation, analysis and
real-time information access
capabilities, including ETL,
data warehouse, data query, custom and standard
reporting, multidimensional
data analysis, data mining,
and other functionalities.
Built-in reporting includes:
Comprehensive Sales
Analysis, Loss Prevention
Analysis and Alerting,
Customer Profiling,
Promotional and Pricing
Analysis, and Sales Audit.
Inventory Cost
Management
AIRS® Inventory Cost
Management is rich in
feature functionality to
assist retailers with
minimizing the total cost of
inventory. With AIRS®, all
main factors in inventory
control decision making are
managed including the cost
of holding the stock, the
cost of placing an order, and
the cost of shortage. AIRS®
real-time data visibility
also ensures that retailers
wishing to establish a
"service level" policy, e.
g, certain percentage of
demand will be met from
stock without delay, will be
able to do so with the
integrated support of
multiple channels for
fulfillment.
Perpetual Inventory
Management
AIRS® Perpetual Inventory
Management delivers
continuous real-time
tracking of quantities of
products. Perpetual
quantities managed by the
system take into account
any activity that increases
or decreases inventory from
a specific location, bin, or
channel. This includes
receiving, put-away,
replenishment, order
picking, bill of material
picking, inventory movements,
and inventory adjustments.
Customer Relationship Management
AIRS® Customer Relationship Management
collects and organizes
information about customers on a
real-time basis and puts actionable
customer account information and
multi-channel resources at the
fingertips of salespersons. Having
real-time information readily available at the
Point-of-Service allows employees to “Save the Sale”,
increase revenues, and fortify the
loyalty of the customer.
Price and Promotions Management
AIRS® Price and Promotions Management gives retailers the dynamic tools and information they need to convert knowledge about customers into increased sales and revenue. It integrates pricing, promotions, ad management, and analytics to enable the retailer to offer the right products at the right price based on the unique demographics of each store. The application includes a robust pricing engine that incorporates psychological pricing, value-based pricing, seasonal pricing, target-return pricing, cost plus pricing, and more. AIRS® Price and Promotions Management helps retailers plan which items to promote, the details for the promotion, and when and where to run the promotion, and then simplifies the setup of the promotion with customizable templates. In addition, an advanced analytical engine provides detailed sales analysis, market basket analysis, customer trends, and more.
Administrative (Back Office/HQ)
Reporting
AIRS® Administrative Reporting provides
retailers with the timely, complete, and
accurate information needed to
effectively manage multiple stores,
multiple channels and ensure superior
customer service. Always based on the
most current industry standards, due to
built-in future proofing , AIRS® is an all-in-one application that lets
retailers manage data movement, currency
and access real-time information across
channels. The application also gives
retailers the ability to manage
cross-channel transactions and the
electronic journal, including access to
electronic customer signatures for audit
and loss-prevention activities. AIRS®
includes parameter management, so
retailers can easily and consistently
implement store policies across
geographic and channel boundaries. And
the application’s sophisticated data
management capabilities allow you to
leverage built-in workflow technologies.
Store Operations
AIRS® Store Operations enables true multi-channel
retailing by delivering a consistent
shopping experience across all
channels—in a retailer’s store, on the
Web site, and through the catalog or
call center. AIRS® Store Operations
provides key business functions,
including Point-of-Service, store labor
management, customer order management,
and store inventory management, all with
the aim of presenting retailers with up-sell
opportunities, while offering customers
the convenience they expect and the
choice for delivery they desire. AIRS®
Store Operations supports
connectivity to both store and POS
systems through standardized interfaces.
Inbound processing including sales audit
as well as outbound processing of
price/item information via ARTS
compliant interfaces. Inventory data and
other merchandising information is
provided to support decentralized store
systems. In combination with the
analytics capabilities of the
AIRS® Business
Intelligence application, retailers are
enabled to control and coordinate the
whole value chain, and thus react
swiftly to changes in consumer behavior
to increase profitability.
Item Management
AIRS® Item Management offers
an integrated merchandise management
solution that helps retailers overcome
some of their most cumbersome pain
points. For example, if a retailer is
using several disparate point solutions
and maintaining multiple item databases,
it may lead to inconsistent master
data. With AIRS® Item Management
application, retailers can create and
manage large numbers of master data
using user-friendly mass maintenance
tools, exception-based management, embedded logic to limit new
item data creation, and manual input
matrices. In addition, electronic import/export
mechanisms allow retailers to collaborate with vendors,
import data from planning applications,
and access industry data pools.
As part of the AIRS® Item Management application, items need only be set up once and will be accessible real-time across all areas of a retailer’s multi-channel business. The finance department, distribution center, merchandisers, buyers, etc. can all view the same consistent data. And since inventory transactions and adjustments, as well as item maintenance (pricing, promotions, UPCs, etc.) are updated in real-time, retailers will always have an accurate view of operational performance.
Enterprise Management
AIRS® Enterprise Management transforms the economics of the retail
business. Providing solutions for
retailers of all sizes and business
scopes, AIRS® Enterprise Management
provides the critical
integration of supply chain, operations,
merchandising, store systems,
optimization, and information technology
solutions for managers and retail
executive management. AIRS® Enterprise
Management is the industry’s
best single source for innovative and
comprehensive enterprise management,
enabling retailers to better serve their
customers by applying real-time insight
into daily decision making for more
profitable results. The AIRS® Enterprise
Management application functionality
ties information across the business to
create a demand-driven retail
enterprise, drive multi-channel
inventory fulfillment, improve the
customer shopping experience, achieve
workforce excellence, and improve
information integrity across the
extended enterprise.
Point of Service
AIRS® Point of Service provides
tremendous flexibility, responsiveness,
and scalability for retailers of all
sizes, thereby improving customer
service and boosting sales. AIRS® POS
delivers consistent and reliable access
to real-time customer, product, and
market information, creating
opportunities to turn occasional
shoppers into lifetime customers.
AIRS® POS additionally offers modern features that improve customer service and reduce costs, including the ability to process in-store returns for items purchased on the Web or from catalogs, access retail Web sites, fulfill Web-generated and catalog orders, and look up cross-store, cross-channel inventory. Security features have been built-in for fraud protection and customer information security. AIRS® POS works in concert with existing POS hardware and all mobile devices, thereby increasing functionality without costly hardware/device replacement.
Mobile POS
AIRS® Mobile POS (Point-of-Service) by Alpha Bay gives you the power and functionality of a modern, full-featured Point-of-Service workstation from a wireless, handheld Point-of-Service device. AIRS Mobile POS is a versatile, customer-centric POS solution that empowers retail associates with the flexibility to find inventory and to checkout customers anywhere in the store, in real-time. AIRS Mobile POS removes the concept of lines and waiting and transforms the purchase into a simple barcode scan, a credit card scan and an e-mailed receipt.
AIRS Mobile POS uses a lightweight, affordable, touch-screen handheld device, from a custom Apple iTouch or iPhone to the specialized functionality of a Motorola Windows CE PDA, that drives revenue and provides huge cost savings for retailers. Its low-profile design makes buying more personal, more convenient, and creates a less-cluttered and more attractive store. Store associates carry the handheld device with them as they help customers on the sales floor, empowering employees to be more responsive and to provide more valuable services to the customer.
Catalog Order Management
AIRS® Catalog Order Management
is an engine for delivering
an exceptional customer experience.
Through the integration of data across
multiple sales channels, customer touch
points and fulfillment options, AIRS®
Catalog Management application provides
a modern solution to easily transform
complicated disparate data into
attractive content to increase spending
visibility and the efficiency of
procurement operations.
The AIRS® Catalog Order Management application dramatically cuts down on all supply management costs. It makes possible the reduction of spending in all categories of goods and services, by streamlining procurement processes, reducing workload through supplier catalog authoring, improving security and managing changes with version controls and notifications, and enforcing other policy compliance areas such as sales tax.
e-Commerce/Web-store
AIRS® e-Commerce/Web-store serves as retailer's on-line catalog and
ordering process. The AIRS® e-Commerce/Web
store application tightly integrates
with the
retailer’s web site and the company’s
deeper infrastructure, allowing
consumers to select merchandise, review
and update what they have selected, and
complete the purchase, while the retailer is
provided with real-time visibility to
fulfill orders, ship, and process returns
expeditiously.

- AIRS Approach
- AIRS Product Suite of Applications
- AIRS Functional Summary
- AIRS Architecture
- Meeting Retail Challenges in the New Economy through Multi-Channel Integration
- Eliminating Threats to Retail Success with Built-in PCI Compliance
- Minimal-to-No Hardware Investment
- AIRS Mobile POS Cuts Costs and Empowers Employees
- Optimized POS in a Tough Economy Requires Real-time Data Visibility
- The <12 Months Roadmap to Significant Bottom Line Impact
- Unlimited Scalability
- Highest System Reliability

