SCHAUMBURG, Illinois, January 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Manthan Systems today announced that Peter Charness, President America's will be presenting a "Big Ideas Session" titled " Are Your Assortment Working as Hard as you Are?" during the 100th year, NRF Big Retail Show in New York. Mr. Charness a recognized industry expert in Retail Solutions and Business Practices will be reviewing innovations in determining the success of Retail Merchandise Assortments, a critical discipline for Retailers dealing with the challenges of pleasing more customers with lower inventory investments.

Manthan will also be previewing ARC with Action Points, a unique new direction for supporting and executing critical business decisions regarding inventory management. For the first time critical merchandising business processes, such as price management, new product introduction, quick refill, assortment rationalization, forecasting and others, are all provided from a single vendor, through a comprehensive guided workflow, and based on a single highly scalable retail data warehouse.

The Big Ideas Session will be held on Tuesday, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:30am in room 3D04, Expo Hall at the NRF Big Retail Show. Visit Manthan Systems at booth 1477 to learn more about these exciting new retail capabilities from the industry's most innovative Retail Business Intelligence provider.