ARTS
MEMBERS UPDATE - July
2003
Exclusive
retail standards information for Members Only
| Top Story of the Month | |
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The ARTS Board met at Retail Systems on June 9th and decided on new policies to drive ARTS standards: |
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Nonmembers will now pay US$149 to download the
technical documentation for ARTS XML schemas. The Charter, executive
overview and schema will continue to be provided at no charge and members
will continue to have complete access to the technical documentation at no
additional charge. Revenues from downloads will be allocated to schema
maintenance and enhancements.
ARTS will develop and administer phase one of POSlog conformance testing. Phase one will be a self-test to allow vendors to align their applications to POSlog before taking the formal test, which will include interoperability. The IXRetail and UnifiedPOS administrative committees, composed of representatives of both the ARTS Board and NRF's CIO Council were abolished in favor of active cooperation and coordination with the total CIO Council. Three new members were elected to the Board: Bob Graham of Smart and Final, Bob Killough of Hollywood Entertainment and David Ashcraft of NCR. Both Mr. Graham and Mr. Killough have successfully implemented ARTS standards at their companies. Complete minutes of the meeting are available on the ARTS website in the members only area. |
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| New Schemas Released to the Public | |
| POSlog version 2 and the first version of the Stored Value schema have been released to the public and posted to the ARTS website for downloading. See press releases on www.nrf-arts.org for complete information. ARTS experts are available to help you implement this and all of our standards. | |
| UnifiedPOS release 1.8 to be posted for Review and Comment | |
| The next release of UnifiedPOS, version 1.8, will be posted next week to www.nrf-arts.org for review and comment. This is your opportunity to influence the next release of this critical standard. | |
| First Release of Digital Asset Management Schema set for Early August | |
| The first release of the Digital Asset Management (DAM) schema is expected in early August. This schema will facilitate communication of images between retailers and manufacturers and provide data to classify, store and retrieve images. This schema will be coordinated with the standard DAM RFP. | |
| ARTS Member Meeting attended by over 50 Companies | |
| The ARTS member meeting on June 11 at RSA was attended by more than 50 companies representing six countries; Australia, Canada, Iceland, South Africa, the UK and the United States . ARTS' recent accomplishments were reviewed with the members and the benefits of adopting standards from both the retailer and vendor perspectives were presented. The PowerPoint is available for viewing on the Public Presentations area of the ARTS website. | |
| View the UCC/AfterBOT Presentation on Return Fraud | |
| The Uniform Code Council and AfterBOT presentation at the NRF Loss Prevention conference is now available for review. If you have a return fraud problem you will want to see how Reduced Size Symbology (RSS) and Digital Receipt can help reduce your losses. See Public Presentations on the ARTS website. | |
| ARTS Needs YOU | |
| We are seeking volunteers to serve on the RFP Committee to create a standard RFP. Desired skills are knowledge of retail business functions and the underlying technology of applications. The initial standard RFPs will be for POS, Digital Asset Management and Warehouse Management. Please contact Richard Mader or David Hogan to learn more or to volunteer. | |
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Upcoming Meetings and Events: |
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| Data Model and IXRetail Committee Meeting, August 11-15 in Washington DC | |
| Registration is now open for the next Data Model (August 11 - 12) and IXRetail (August 13 - 15) to be held in Washington DC. The meeting registration web function has been enhanced to make this process more efficient. Hotel rooms are available for only $99 per day- call Courtyard By Marriott at 800-228-9290 or 202-737-2200 and mention the NRF-ARTS IXRetail Meeting. | |
| ARTS IXRetail Conference Scheduled for London, October 1 | |
| ARTS is to hold a one-day conference in London October 1st in conjunction with the annual IXRetail International Meeting September 29 and 30. The Conference will allow European members and prospective members to meet with the IXRetail Technical Committee to learn more about the benefits of and how to implement ARTS standard schemas. Look for more information in next month's Member Update. | |
| ARTS to Present at NRFtech, August 10-12 | |
| ARTS will present a session on the importance of standards in selecting new or updating POS hardware and software at NRFtech, August 10 - 12 in San Diego. See NRF.com for more details. | |
INTRODUCING ARTS Newest MembeRS |
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| Q2TS | Netherlands |
| SKU Systems Australia | Retail Merchandising and Inventory Management software solution developer |