Rockaway Bedding, Top 100 Retailer, Chooses STORIS -- 6th Top 100 Retailer Signed by STORIS in the Past Year

Furniture World Magazine

STORIS Management Systems, a supplier of turnkey and business systems for furniture, appliance, and electronics retailers announced the signing of Top 100 retailer Rockaway Bedding, a growing New Jersey based retail bedding- chain currently with 90 stores. As the country's third largest bedding chain, Rockaway Bedding contributes to STORIS' most successful year in the history of the company in which they,, also signed American Home Furnishings, McMahan's Furniture, Schneiderman's Furniture, Inc.. Corporation Famsa (one of the top Mexican furniture retailers) to name just a few. Donald Surdoval, President. said. "We are very pleased to have been chosen to supply one of the nation's largest bedding company's with our retail management software solution. 'We feel that their decision to purchase STORIS was greatly influenced by our company's total commitment to the furniture retail industry and we feel that this partnership will help both Rockaway Bedding and STORIS to grow and strengthen their businesses throughout the coming years." Jeff Bonham. Director of Sales and Marketing for Rockaway Bedding said, "Because our business is growing so quickly we require a software solution that will not only organize our business data but also give us quick sales analysis based on real facts and we feel that STORIS has the tools for us to do this. In addition. we felt that STORIS, in comparison to other software, was the most user friendly and the easiest software package for our not so technical people to understand and operate. Lastly, we feel that STORIS will give us the information needed to assist our salesforce in selling more confidently, as well as use our time more wisely and run our business more efficiently. With annual sales of 75+ million. Rockaway will be running a 138 user system on IBM's powerful RISC/ System 6000 Model F50. In addition to STORIS' base system. Rockaway purchased many of STORIS' add-on modules. They, have chosen to implement STORIS' Batch Bar Coding, in their warehouse as well as their retail store locations. They also purchased STORIS' EIS Merchandising and Financials, Credit Card Authorization Interface. Customer Service, Custom Label Software. and the Truck Routing Interface. Rockaway's Corporate Headquarters plans to be live in the early part of 1999. STORIS Management Systems, an IBM Business partner, provides computer turnkey solutions for furniture appliance and electronic retailers. Over 250 retailers including 21 of the TOP 100 have installed STORIS Systems in the past decade. For more information go to the Storis Web Area on furninfo.com or e-mail them at emcculloch@storis.com