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| Specific Requirements Supermarkets and large departmental stores have very unique and specific automation requirements that no other segments need. The large number of SKU and high volume of transactions are factors that drive these needs.  | Inventory related requirements  | Departmentalized SKU: Merchandize are divided into, stocked as well as offered department-wise. Hence all tracking functions should be department-wise. This calls for exhaustive stock reporting department-wise. | | SKU with limited shelf life: Most grocery and health care items have limited shelf life. Hence the need for a mechanism to store the shelf-life expiry date and track items about to expire | | Batch-wise inventory: Possibility of the same item of different batches with different retail price exist. The automation system must be capable of handling batch-serial number-wise inventory. At the same time this additional piece of info should be a | | Multi-location Inventory: The system should have provision to track stocks in separate locations where items are received, priced and tagged (and possibly stored) before transfer to the floor from which they are sold. | | | POS related requirements | Fast Check-out | | Compatibility with various Point-Of-Sale Equipments like Cash Drawer, Customer (Pole) Display, Receipt Printer, Audit Trail Printer, Credit card Authorization Terminals, Weighing Scales, Barcode scanners, Magnetic Swipe card readers etc., | | Noordwijk cheap hotelsMultiple Tender Modes: Multiple modes of tender combined with the fast check-out process pose an altogether different set of constraints on the speed of operation | | Promotional Schemes: The system should automatically detect the promotional schemes applicable for the items being billed and automatically apply the same by carrying out necessary computations or prompting the user to add the necessary additional (gift) items etc., | | | Robustness of Solution | Security & Controls: Presence of multiple tills and multiple cashiers calls for additional controls and security measures. These must be achievable with combination of logical and physical measures. | | Zero Downtime: Downtime is an unacceptable. Thus any and every cause for downtime will have to have a wok-around | | | Merchandising | Reorder Tracking: Stock-out situations on fast moving items and essential items can be disastrous. This calls for an accurate and timely mechanism that detects possible stock-outs in advance and triggers re-order in the right quantities. | | Flexible Purchase Ordering Process: The system must maintain rate contracts (multiple) for the various items based on previously submitted and approved price quotes of vendors. The process of placing purchase orders must be flexible such that the system guides the user to select the items to be ordered (based re-order status), vendor and purchase price. At the same time, these operations should be uncomplicated. | | Consignment Item: The system should have provision to handle items received on consignment basis (not paid for and will be paid after selling) | | Solutions shoperretail solutions are ideally suited for super market environment with all the products in the suite finding their place: | shoper point-of-sale | Character-based edition  | online black jack strategiaSuper fast billing | | Hoteles economicos en ManilaEnables 35 column receipt printing, Customer Display, Cash Drawer activation, Credit card Authorization terminals, Magnetic swipe card readers, Hot-keys to program customizable key-boards, barcode reading | | Multiple modes of tender | | Promotional discount and gift schemes automatically detected and enabled while billing | | Key-state based secured access to menu options | | | GUI edition includes all the features outlined above with the following enhancements | Super-Classification fields helps building Departmental hierarchy which is over and above the five regular item hierarchy provided. For example the regular hierarchy could be PRODUCT/MAKE/MODEL or BRAND NAME/COLOR or FLAVOR/SIZE or PACK. Over this hierarchy one can build a super-hierarchy combining all "SOAPS" into "PERSONAL | | Batch-wise Expiry date helps tracking item shelf life | | Batch-wise Inventory tracking feature allows tracking items of multiple batches | | Multi-location inventory provides for separate stocking points in addition to the shop floor from which billing is done | | Multi-level security includes operation restriction based on user, terminal and key-state | | SHOPER can be configured to handle the POS functions for ValueShoppro. Thus even if there is a network failure, SHOPER will automatically continue on single user mode in each till. Central polling will happen automatically whenever the server is up and network connection present. | | | | shopere | All the cataloguing and reporting features mentioned above | | Information on stock movement and sales across the chain | | Performance Tracking of promotional schemes across chain | | | shoper c - Customer Appreciation Reward & Empowerment - CRM: | Customer Profiling with buying pattern and preferences (using product attributes) | | Cross promotions across product range using customer purchase history | | | | | |
