Manual store operations create significant challenges for Esl Retail businesses, leading to costly errors in pricing and promotions.
The Vusion Manager is the central software platform that controls your store’s entire network of Vusion Electronic Shelf Labels. It connects your ESL Gateway AP to every Vusion ESL Price Tag. You can manage pricing and product information across all esl devices instantly. This system automates your esl network, revolutionizing in-store operations.
1. It Automates Pricing and Promotions Instantly
You can say goodbye to the slow, error-prone process of manual price updates. The Vusion Manager platform connects directly to your pricing database. This connection automates the entire pricing workflow, ensuring every esl tag on your shelf edge reflects the correct information in real-time.
How It Works: The End of Manual Price Changes
Linking to Your Central Pricing System
The system integrates seamlessly with your existing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) or central pricing database. You establish a secure link. This connection becomes the single source of truth for all product and price data displayed on your electronic shelf labels.
Real-Time Data Synchronization
Once linked, the Vusion platform continuously synchronizes data. Any price change made in your central system is immediately ready for deployment. This real-time sync eliminates delays and ensures consistency between your back-office data and the shelf edge. You can check the update status at any time.
Pushing Updates to the Shelf Edge
You can push updates to a single esl or thousands of them across the store with a single click. The software transmits the new data through the network to the designated label. The esl screen refreshes almost instantly, displaying the new price or promotion. The status of each update is tracked for confirmation.
Scheduling Future Promotions and Campaigns
You can plan ahead with powerful scheduling tools. You can set up future price changes for sales, promotions, or seasonal campaigns. The Vusion Manager will automatically execute these updates at the scheduled date and time, giving you precise control over your promotional calendar.
The Transformation: Achieving Perfect Pricing with Vusion
Eliminating Human Error in Pricing
Manual label changes are a major source of pricing errors. Automation removes this risk entirely. Retailers like POCO in Germany and Lee’s Discount Liquor in the U.S. overhauled their pricing strategies with Vusion, achieving greater accuracy and integrity. Digital tags ensure the price on the label always matches the database.
Enabling Dynamic Pricing Strategies
This automation empowers you to implement sophisticated pricing strategies that were once impossible. You gain the agility to react instantly to market changes.
- Deploy flash sales or time-sensitive discounts across the store in minutes.
- Adjust prices to match competitor promotions instantly.
- Manage centralized control over pricing and stock levels across multiple locations.
- Free up staff from tedious price changes to focus on customer service.
Freeing Up Staff for Customer-Facing Roles
Your team no longer needs to spend hours printing, cutting, and replacing paper tags. This automation frees up valuable employee time. Your staff can now focus on higher-value activities, such as assisting shoppers, improving merchandising, and enhancing the overall customer experience.
Pro Tip: By automating price updates, you can reallocate an average of 8-10 hours of labor per week per store, shifting focus from operational tasks to revenue-generating activities.
Ensuring 100% Price Compliance and Accuracy
The system guarantees flawless synchronization between the shelf price and your Point of Sale (POS) system. This 100% accuracy eliminates price discrepancies at checkout, which builds shopper trust and ensures compliance with pricing regulations. You can monitor the status of every label to confirm complete and successful updates.
2. How the Vusion Manager Centralizes Store-Wide Operations
The Vusion Manager moves you beyond individual price changes. It gives you a single command center to oversee your entire store network. This centralized control simplifies management and provides a complete view of your operations.
How It Works: A Single Dashboard for Everything
The Central Control Interface
The Vusion platform provides a powerful, unified dashboard that acts as your store’s operational hub. This interface gives you complete control from one screen. Key features include:
- User-Friendly Design: The intuitive layout reduces the learning curve. You can quickly understand trends and insights without needing deep analytical expertise.
- Real-Time Data: You receive up-to-the-minute metrics on your operations. This allows you to adapt quickly to any business demands.
- Mobile Accessibility: You can securely access crucial data from anywhere. This empowers you and your team to make smart decisions on the go.
Monitoring Label Health and Battery Life
You can proactively manage the health of every electronic shelf label in your store. The dashboard provides real-time device status updates. You can easily monitor the battery life of each ESL, ensuring your system runs without unexpected interruptions. This feature helps you plan maintenance before a label goes offline.
Tracking Update Status in Real-Time
You never have to guess if an update was successful. The dashboard shows the live status of every data transmission. You can confirm that each ESL has received and displayed its new information correctly. This provides a clear audit trail for all changes.
Managing the Entire ESL Network
Your dashboard is the central point for managing the entire Vusion ecosystem. You can organize devices, monitor network infrastructure health, and troubleshoot issues from one place. This simplifies the management of hundreds or thousands of devices across one or multiple locations.
The Transformation: From Reactive to Proactive Management
Gaining Full Operational Visibility
Centralization eliminates data silos. You gain a complete, real-time view of your store’s operational health. This transparency allows you to spot trends and identify potential problems before they escalate. You can make faster, more informed decisions with consistent and actionable data.
Reducing System Downtime and Maintenance
Proactive monitoring minimizes disruptions. By tracking the health status of each device, you can address issues before they cause downtime. This shifts your maintenance strategy from reactive fixes to proactive care, ensuring your system remains reliable.
With a centralized view, you can identify and resolve potential issues before they impact store operations, significantly improving system uptime and reliability.
Simplifying Daily Store Maintenance Tasks
The system streamlines daily tasks for your team. Technicians can access all necessary information directly through the platform. Automated work order generation and digital audit trails reduce manual tracking. This frees up your staff to focus on more critical activities.
Scaling Operations Across Multiple Stores
The Vusion Manager is built for growth. You can manage multiple store locations from a single, cloud-based interface. This allows you to enforce consistent standards, deploy promotions universally, and compare performance across your entire retail chain with ease.
3. It Enhances Inventory and Stock Management
The Vusion Manager transforms your electronic shelf labels from simple price displays into powerful inventory management tools. You gain real-time visibility of your stock levels directly at the shelf edge, creating a more efficient and responsive store environment.
How It Works: Bringing Data to the Shelf Edge
Integrating with Inventory Management Systems
You can connect the platform directly to your store’s inventory management system or ERP. This integration creates a seamless data flow, turning your central database into the single source of truth for stock information. The system tracks stock levels in real-time and can automate reordering alerts, ensuring products are replenished before they run out.
Displaying Real-Time Stock Levels on Labels
Once integrated, you can display the current stock count directly on each esl. This feature provides immediate, accurate information to both your staff and your customers. Shoppers can see product availability at a glance, while employees can verify stock status without leaving the aisle.
Highlighting Low-Stock Items with Visual Cues
The system uses visual cues to alert your team to low-stock situations. When an item’s quantity falls below a set threshold, the esl can activate a visual signal.
- LED indicators on the label begin to flash.
- This flashing light guides staff directly to the specific shelf requiring attention.
- The visual alert prompts timely restocking, improving on-shelf availability.
Identifying Out-of-Stock Products Instantly
Beyond just low-stock alerts, the system instantly identifies products that are completely out of stock. This allows your team to address empty shelf space immediately, either by replenishing from the backroom or updating the label status to inform shoppers.
The Transformation: Improving On-Shelf Availability
Speeding Up Restocking and Replenishment
Visual alerts dramatically accelerate the restocking process. Your staff no longer wastes time searching for items that need replenishment. The flashing esl guides them to the exact location, reducing search time and minimizing errors. This efficiency ensures shelves are restocked faster, keeping products available for customers.
Reducing Lost Sales from Stockouts
Empty shelves directly translate to lost revenue. When customers cannot find what they are looking for, a majority will simply switch brands or even stores. By improving on-shelf availability, you protect your sales and build customer loyalty.
An out-of-stock rate of just 8% can lead to a 4% loss in sales. Improving availability prevents this loss and captures potential revenue.
Improving Overall Inventory Accuracy
The Vusion Manager ensures the stock status displayed on the shelf perfectly matches your back-end data. This digital synchronization eliminates the discrepancies common with manual counts. With a more accurate inventory status, you can improve forecasting, optimize ordering, and reduce carrying costs.
Empowering Staff with Shelf-Level Data
You empower your employees by giving them critical data right where they need it. Staff can confidently answer customer questions about stock status and availability. They become proactive problem-solvers, able to identify and resolve inventory issues on the spot, transforming their role from task-doers to value-creators.
4. It Improves the In-Store Shopper Experience
You can transform your static shelves into dynamic, interactive touchpoints that inform and engage customers. The Vusion platform turns each electronic shelf label into a gateway for rich product information, directly addressing the needs of the modern, digitally-savvy shopper.
How It Works: Creating an Interactive Shelf
Displaying Rich Product Content and Specs
Your Vusion ESL can display much more than just a price. You can showcase key product specifications, features, and benefits directly on the high-resolution screen. This enhanced content answers common shopper questions on the spot, helping them make confident purchase decisions.
Integrating QR Codes for Reviews and Videos
You can cater to the 69% of shoppers who use their smartphones in-store to research reviews. By adding a QR code to the ESL display, you empower customers to instantly access online reviews, instructional videos, or detailed product pages, satisfying their need for deeper information.
Showcasing Promotions and Product Pairings
You can use the labels to highlight active promotions with eye-catching graphics. You can also suggest complementary products, such as pairing a specific wine with a cheese. This cross-selling strategy helps increase the average basket size and enhances the shopping journey.
Highlighting Allergen or Country of Origin Data
You can build significant trust by displaying critical information like allergens, nutritional facts, or country of origin. A 2023 survey revealed that 60% of shoppers would switch brands over misleading information, making transparency a powerful tool for loyalty. Displaying this data clearly on each label meets consumer demand for transparency.
The Transformation: Engaging and Informing Customers
Building Shopper Trust with Accurate Information
When the price and product information on the shelf are always accurate, you eliminate friction and build customer confidence. Transparent data, from pricing to product origin status, assures shoppers they are making informed choices, which fosters long-term loyalty.
Providing Instant Access to Deeper Product Details
You give customers the detailed information they expect from online shopping right in the aisle. Instead of leaving to search for information, shoppers can scan a code on the ESL and get immediate answers, keeping them engaged and moving toward a purchase. The stock status can also be displayed.
Creating a Modern, Digital Store Environment
Digital labels create a clean, modern, and tech-forward store atmosphere. This environment signals to shoppers that your business is efficient and customer-focused. The Vusion Manager helps you maintain a consistent and professional brand image, elevating the overall perception of your store.
Today’s shoppers use their smartphones during more than half (54%) of their shopping trips. An interactive shelf meets them where they are, blending digital convenience with the physical store experience.
Bridging the Online-Offline Information Gap
Interactive shelves close the gap between your online and physical stores. By providing real-time data, rich media access, and consistent promotional status, you create a seamless omnichannel experience. This strategy brings the autonomy and rich information of e-commerce directly to the shelf edge.
5. It Optimizes Employee Efficiency and Tasking
You can transform your electronic shelf labels into a powerful digital task management system for your staff. The Vusion Manager platform goes beyond pricing and inventory to guide employees through in-store tasks with unprecedented speed and accuracy. This turns your shelf edge into an active tool for operational excellence.
How It Works: Guiding Staff with Light and Data
Using ESLs for Digital Task Management
You can assign tasks like order picking, restocking, or price verification directly through the central platform. The system sends these assignments to your employees’ handheld devices. It then uses the ESL network to guide them through each step of the workflow, updating the task status in real-time.
LED Flashing for Rapid Product Location
You can eliminate wasted search time with visual guidance. When a task requires locating a product, the corresponding ESL can activate its multi-color LED.
- A flashing light makes it quick and intuitive for staff to find products.
- The light guides them to the exact item, which is especially helpful for similar-looking products like spices or baby food.
- The ESL stops flashing once the item is scanned, and the next item’s label begins to flash.
Displaying Task Details Directly on the Label
You can display critical task information directly on the high-resolution screen of each label. For an order picking task, the display can show the quantity needed. This feature keeps your staff focused and provides all necessary information at the point of action, reducing the need to check back with a handheld device.
Utilizing Geolocation for Task Prioritization
The system can use in-store geolocation to optimize workflows. It identifies an employee’s location and can assign them the nearest task. This intelligent routing minimizes travel time through the aisles and ensures work is completed in the most efficient order possible, updating the task status as they move.
The Transformation: Faster, More Accurate Workflows
Accelerating Order Picking for Click-and-Collect
You can dramatically speed up your fulfillment process for online orders. Guided picking technologies have been shown to increase pick rates from 100 to 500 units per hour while reducing labor costs by 40%. The flashing ESL guides pickers to the correct item, accelerating the entire click-and-collect workflow.
With guided picking, you can increase the number of units picked per hour by 15 to 30 percent, making your fulfillment operations faster and more cost-effective.
Reducing Employee Search Time for Products
Your team will no longer lose valuable time hunting for items. By guiding employees directly to the exact product location, the system saves them “hours of wasted searching per month.” This is especially beneficial for new or temporary staff who are unfamiliar with the store layout.
Minimizing Errors in Order Fulfillment
Visual guidance significantly improves accuracy. The flashing light ensures employees pick the correct product every time, which minimizes fulfillment errors and improves customer satisfaction. The system confirms the correct action by updating the item’s status after a successful scan.
Streamlining Planogram Compliance Checks
You can simplify planogram audits. Your staff can quickly verify that products are in their assigned locations by activating the LED on an ESL. This allows for rapid, on-the-spot compliance checks, ensuring your merchandising strategy is executed flawlessly.
6. It Fortifies Data Security and System Monitoring
In a digitally connected store, your network is your foundation. The Vusion Manager not only manages operations but also builds a secure and resilient ecosystem around your data and devices. You gain proactive oversight that protects your business from digital threats and operational disruptions.
How It Works: Proactive System Oversight
Comprehensive Device Monitoring Tools
You get a complete command center for your network’s health. The central dashboard provides real-time visibility into every device. You can monitor the connectivity status and battery life of each ESL, allowing you to anticipate maintenance needs before a device goes offline. This ensures your system operates at peak performance without interruption.
Identifying and Flagging Unusual Behavior
The modern retail environment faces numerous security challenges. A large network of IoT devices can create a wide attack surface, and integrating with legacy systems can introduce vulnerabilities. The Vusion platform actively monitors for unusual activity, helping you identify potential threats. It flags anomalies that could indicate a problem, giving you an early warning system against potential disruptions.
Secure Cloud-Based Management
Your data is protected by a system built on internationally recognized security standards. The VusionCloud platform is ISO 27001 certified, ensuring your information is managed within a secure framework. All data transmissions are protected by the VusionOX protocol, which uses augmented Bluetooth-LE standards to safeguard sensitive pricing information as it moves from your Vusion account to the shelf edge.
How to Register ESLs with Vusion Securely
You can expand your network with confidence. The process to register ESLs creates a secure, authenticated link between a new ESL and your Vusion account. This controlled pairing process ensures that only authorized devices can join your network, preventing unauthorized access and maintaining the integrity of your entire system.
The Transformation: A Reliable and Secure Ecosystem
Reducing Mean-Time-To-Resolution for Issues
Proactive monitoring transforms your approach to troubleshooting. Instead of reacting to failures, you can predict and prevent them.
By implementing comprehensive monitoring, organizations have been able to reduce issue resolution time by over 60%. Your team can use detailed diagnostics to pinpoint the root cause of a problem quickly, dramatically improving operational efficiency.
Protecting Sensitive Pricing and Store Data
You protect your most valuable assets: your data and your pricing strategy. The end-to-end security of the Vusion system shields your information from unauthorized access and manipulation. This robust protection gives you the confidence to deploy dynamic pricing and manage sensitive data without exposing your business to unnecessary risk.
Ensuring System Reliability and Uptime
A monitored network is a reliable network. By tracking the health status of your infrastructure, you minimize unexpected downtime. This proactive stance ensures your digital labels are always operational, your pricing is always accurate, and your store functions smoothly. Your customers and staff can depend on a system that works.
Gaining Peace of Mind with a Monitored Network
Ultimately, a secure and monitored network gives you peace of mind. You can shift your focus from worrying about potential system failures to optimizing your store’s performance. You know your operations are supported by a reliable, secure foundation, empowering you to innovate and grow your business.
The vusion manager is the command center for your modern, digitized retail environment, going far beyond simple price changes. It is a comprehensive store transformation engine that drives efficiency, accuracy, and profitability. By automating pricing, centralizing control, and optimizing experiences, you equip your store to thrive.
Companies that leverage data analytics can increase profits by 8-10% more than their competitors, turning operational data into a powerful strategic asset.
This platform empowers you to compete effectively in today’s demanding retail landscape.
FAQ
What is a Vusion Manager?
The Vusion Manager is the central software you use to command your store’s network. It gives you control over every electronic shelf label. You manage pricing, product data, and employee tasks from one unified dashboard.
How does it integrate with my current systems?
The platform connects seamlessly with your existing ERP or inventory management systems. This integration ensures your shelf data perfectly mirrors your central database. You achieve complete and reliable data synchronization across your operations.
Can I manage multiple stores with one account?
Yes, you can. The cloud-based system is designed for scalability. You can oversee your entire retail chain from a single interface. This allows you to deploy universal campaigns and maintain consistent standards across all locations.
What happens if an ESL battery dies?
You can prevent downtime with proactive alerts. The Vusion Manager dashboard constantly monitors the health and battery status of every label. It notifies you before a battery is depleted, so you can schedule replacements without any service interruptions.
How secure is the data transmission?
Your data is protected with robust security measures. The system uses an advanced communication protocol to safeguard all transmissions.
The VusionCloud platform is also ISO 27001 certified, which means it adheres to the highest international standards for information security management.
How long does it take to update prices?
Price updates are exceptionally fast. You can send new information to thousands of labels across your store in seconds. This agility allows you to implement dynamic pricing strategies and react instantly to market changes.
Can the ESLs do more than show prices?
Absolutely. ✅ You can use the labels to display a wide range of information.
- Real-time stock counts
- Product specifications and origin data
- QR codes for reviews or videos
- Task details for staff
This transforms your shelf edge into an interactive hub for both shoppers and employees.
