Leading home furnishings retailers Mattress Firm and Morris Home Furnishings have contracted to implement FurnishNet’s electronic transaction exchange services to improve their businesses. Mattress Firm is ranked number 28 in Furniture Today’s Top 100 list and is the nation's leading specialty retailer of conventional bedding with over 300 stores coast to coast. Morris Home Furnishings is the #1 retailer in Ohio’s Miami Valley region. Both companies have committed to implement over 80% of their business-to-business transactions to the FurnishNet electronic transaction exchange service to speed order cycles with the vendors, and reduce paperwork and manual labor.

The FurnishNet solution integrates e-mail, web applications, electronic data interchange (EDI), and XML into a unique "Any-to-Any" exchange for the processing of over 300 transaction types electronically between trading partners. The most common transactions types processed electronically include purchase orders, purchase order acknowledgements, advance ship notices, and invoices. FurnishNet is able to translate data files into appropriate formats for the electronic flow of information between trading partners of any size, running on any corporate system. Because the FurnishNet service is able to transfer data without the use of a VAN, the need for expensive EDI mapping software as well as a traditional EDI VAN network are eliminated, thereby reducing expenses and simplifying connectivity.

Over 640 of the nation’s leading retailers and manufacturers are using FurnishNet’s electronic document exchange solution to streamline their supply chains. For more information, please call 1-800-854-2263, ext. 2525, or visit www.furnishnet.com and take the Self-Guided Tour.