ARTS MEMBERS UPDATE - May 2004

Exclusive retail standards information for Members Only  

Top Story of the Month

Schema Downloads demonstrate ARTS' Success:
Visit ARTS member vendors at Retail Systems, May 17 - 19 at McCormick Place in Chicago, and get the latest information on ARTS activities and newest standards. The following vendor members have agreed to distribute ARTS materials in their booths and answer questions about ARTS standards:
Name Booth
360Commerce 211
AccessVia 705
Cornell-Mayo Associates  1607
CRS Retail Systems, Inc.  1719
Datavantage  207
Epson America, Inc. 701
Escalate, Inc. 1840
Fujitsu Transaction Solutions Inc. 719
Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) 402
IBM Corporation  902
MMF Cash Drawer Company  1116
Sonic Software, Inc. 317
Symbol Technologies, Inc.  2502
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS America)  2049
Triversity Inc.  323
Ultimate Technology  2302
VersaPOS 1826
Workbrain, Inc. 935
ARTS appreciates the support of these members that embrace open standards in order to lower retail technology costs.

Recent Activities and Events
ARTS and the NRF CIO Council Release Workforce Management RFP
Workforce Management (WFM) is the second in a series of Standard Requests for Proposal (RFPs) designed to assist retailers in selecting the "right" software applications for their specific business practices. Retailers purchase Workforce Management applications to ensure that they provide customers with the right quantity of staff, with the right skills, at the right time. The Workforce Management RFP includes Labor Forecasting and Scheduling, Time and Attendance, and Task Management functions and will be followed soon by new IXRetail schemas to integrate the selected application. The RFP for Loss Prevention is currently in development. Contact arts@nrf.com  if you would like to participate or donate used RFPs. 

RFPs are available free of charge to ARTS and NRF members in good standing.

May IXRetail and Data Model Meetings Well Attended 
The meetings, hosted in Ft. Worth by RadioShack, drew 37 participants representing 24 companies. Major accomplishments of the meetings include: final review of schemas to support the WFM RFP, design of major enhancements to the Customer schema, significant progress in the development of Price v2 and Item Schemas and updates to the Data Model to ensure that it includes all the data elements in the IXRetail schemas. 

Upcoming Meetings and Events:
ARTS to present at the IBM Stores Systems User Group conference May 23 - 26 Hilton Anaheim, Anaheim CA. Click here for more information.
UnifiedPOS meeting June 21 - 24 NRF Offices, Washington DC The agenda will focus on the next release 1.9. Register to attend  under Meeting Registration.
IXRetail and Data Model meetings August 2 - 6 Microsoft offices, Washington DC Register to attend under Meeting Registration.
Visit ARTS at Retail Solutions, June 8-10 Birmingham UK ARTS will moderate a panel discussion on outsourcing, and PCMS Group has provided space within their pavilion for the ARTS booth.
2nd Annual Technology Summit, October 7 London UK, venue to be announced soon ARTS and NRF will again be hosting the summit in association with leading trade publication Retail Week. Data Model and IXRetail meetings will be held in London October 4 - 6. We encourage members from UK and Europe to attend - indeed these meetings are for you! 
 

                  Welcome New ARTS Members
Cabela's Inc.  United States
CommercialWare, Inc United States
JavaGreen Pvt Ltd  India
Kohl's Department Stores, Inc. United States
MCRL  Germany
Systime Computer Corporation United States
Tequila Software, Inc. Canada