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Specialist school wear retailer helps parents buy early to avoid the August rush using Eurostop’s flexible retail systems to set up school shops   Eurostop has announced that schoolwear supplier Simmonds & Son is using Eurostop retail systems to manage high seasonal demand through the summer months. Simmonds supplies to over 70 schools and has 19 ‘mini-shops’ located in schools across the UK, opening at select times during the school term and full-time during the summer holidays. Using Eurostop’s POS and stock control systems, including warehousing, integrated with Simmonds’ finance systems, offers Simmonds an extended offering with their ‘pop-up’ shops open additionally during term time evenings and weekends.   Simmonds staff process orders in the schools, enabling parents to purchase from Easter onwards, ahead of the busy summer months, helping Simmonds to manage stock availability to meet demand.Using Eurostop systems, daily sales from the pop-up shops are uploaded to the head office system, enabling the management teams – both finance and merchandising to manage sales and stock with automatic replenishment and re-order accordingly. Karen Gore, General Manager, Simmonds said; “We work with over 70 school customers and there is no doubt that Eurostop is central to our business. Eurostop’s systems are used by everyone throughout the company – from staff working in our stores in schools to our merchandisers and warehouse team. “The flexibility that Eurostop offers enables us to run extra pop-up shops in schools during the summer period, helping us manage an incredibly busy time. It’s better for the parents and schools and enables us to ensure we can meet demand.” Eurostop’s retail solution is integrated with Simmonds’ financial system, Sage Accounts, enabling the company to keep a tight rein on sales and stock supplies, costs and profitability. In addition, integration with Simmonds’ newly updated website ensures that online orders, a growing part of the business, are fulfilled quickly with all stock centrally managed from Simmonds’ warehouse. Phillip Moylan, Sales Manager at Eurostop said; “Pop-up shops are a great way for retailers to extend their footprint and reach customers in a much more convenient way for the customer. Eurostop provides the flexibility that Simmonds requires to extend their retail presence, while still connecting to their existing business systems. For Simmonds it supports their business model of putting the customer first. Their schools also benefit from having the uniform stockist on-site as it encourages pupils to wear the set uniform, it provides an additional source of income and enables the school to provide an improved service to parents.”

Unique vintage clothing retailer chooses Eurostop systems to ensure seamless stock management between central warehouse, London stores and website. Eurostop has announced that Rokit Vintage clothing has chosen Eurostop e-rmis software for their head office stock management and e-manager and e-pos touch software for the retail shops. Rokit has a long established reputation for providing unique vintage clothing with shops in Covent Garden, Camden and Brick Lane. Rokit has invested in Eurostop’s retail systems to support its fast turnaround of bespoke ‘repurposed’ branded designer items to the four London stores from its warehouse. Rokit’s unrivalled selection of vintage items caters for Thirties through to 90’s fashion and every street style and catwalk trend in between. Using Eurostop’s e-rmis head office solution connected to e-pos touch in stores, the team at Rokit will be able to respond to the live sales and stocks to track and manage the lifecycle of all items from selection and merchandising through to sale. Rokit selected Eurostop systems to replace its existing retail hardware and software systems – the growth of the retailer’s business has resulted in over 1million SKUs, which its incumbent systems could no longer manage. Eurostop is also providing additional bespoke development to the warehouse software provided to support the retailer’s unique business model. Rokit’s management team of vintage experts are all based under one roof in London. In the warehouse hundreds of individual one of a kind pieces are hand selected, prepared and despatched daily to its four London stores and added to the website. The high functionality of the software and hardware provided by Eurostop and level of support and services were also important factors in the selection, as the Rokit stores are open for long periods, seven days a week. Phillip Moylan, Sales Manager at Eurostop said; “Like many successful independent retailers, Rokit’s business operations require flexible, connected retail systems to enable them to manage the fast paced demand in today’s retail market. The management team have extensive retail knowledge but the growth of the business presented the challenge of tracking sales and stock for over a million items. We are assisting the Rokit team with extensive management reporting, processes and future proofed software”.