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The apparel retail software solution from Microsoft Retail
Management System is designed to help you, the specialty apparel
store retailers, improve business processes.
1. Effective, inventory tracking
2. Enhance customers' shopping experience
3. Save time and money
4. Use customizable management tools
5. Get comprehensive, flexible reports
6. Benefits of centralized information
7. Grows with your business
Want an affordable software/hardware solution bundle for
apparel retailers?
1. Effective, inventory tracking
Apparel retailers need to know when to restock popular items ?
and when to eliminate items dragging down profits. Microsoft Retail
Management System helps you get complete, accurate, and current
information so you can make intelligent reordering choices. It's
adaptable to your unique needs.
Specialty apparel retailers can
easily:
- Track and manage hard goods,
soft goods, and convenience items.
- Work with matrix and lot
matrix methods.
- Simplify inventory tracking
with serialized items and multiple serial numbers.
- Produce assembly kits and
items.
- Track inventory by specifics,
such as weighed, measured, and by bin.
- Manage an unlimited number of
inventory items and transactions.
- Place items on backorder for
future deliveries from the POS.
- Automate your inventory
replenishment based on reorder point/restock level or quantity
sold. Compare multiple suppliers and their pricing on individual
items.
- Create purchase orders that
reflect the matrices you set up within your system.
Define the matrix properties of your
inventory items in a way that makes sense to you.
2. Enhance your customers' shopping experience
Your sales staff will have access to complete customer
information that helps them sell more effectively. They will also
be able to process complex transactions seamlessly. You can
also:
- Capture, show, or hide customer
contact and demographics on the POS screen.
- Instantly access a complete
history of customer purchases, payments, and account
information at the POS. Suggest relevant up-sells, sale items, and
volume discounts to customers.
- Reprint electronic receipts to
resolve disputes, speed rebates, and verify purchase dates and
amounts.
- Target your mailings directly
to customers' special interests.
- Accommodate partial payments
and account payments.
- Handle work orders,
backorders, layaways, and quotes. Grant automatic discounts and
differential pricing to special customers. Serve others while
keeping a stalled transaction "on hold."
- Accept multiple tenders,
credit cards, debit cards, coupons, gift vouchers, foreign
currencies, and government stamps.
- Sell when your network is
down.
Check item availability for specific
customer requests
3. Save time and money
Jump-start productivity at your specialty apparel store with a
solution that's easy to learn and use, yet offers the power and
flexibility you need to adapt quickly within a changing
marketplace.
- Installs and easily set up
Microsoft Retail Management System Store Operations so that
employees can learn POS functions in minutes.
- Lock out ? or empower ? any
employee's access to sensitive data.
- Automate inventory management
to reduce shrinkage and slow-moving items.
- Speed time-consuming tasks;
for example, use wizards to bulk-update prices and inventory
data.
- Know which employees sell
best. Predict which days or hours to staff up ? or cut
back.
Check availability for customer's
specific requests.
4. Use customizable management tools
You'll have the power to quickly identify sales trends and track
results from sales campaigns because you'll have immediate insight
into daily transactions and operations.
- Configure your point-of-sale
screens to show exactly the information your cashiers and sales
clerks need.
- Customize receipts and price
labels with logos and promotional messages.
- Use various pricing structures
for markups and discounts.
- Set up new sales and
promotions ? fast.
- Get intelligent information for
buying with ordering levels, best-price suppliers, and
automatic POS.
- Make our wizards do your work.
It takes just minutes to input new items, manage inventory, and
perform everyday chores.
- Create different security levels
for each employee. Data fields can be hidden, view-only, or
changeable.
5. Get quick, comprehensive, flexible reports
Accurate and timely data help you make smarter decisions. Know
exactly what sold best in every department, category, and season;
quickly decide what to buy or mark down; and track return on
investment for marketing initiatives.
- Generate sales and inventory
reports that help make it easy to decide what to buy or mark
down.
- Track return on investment
(ROI) from your ads, mailings, promotions, sales, and
discounts.
- Preview, print, or export data
in multiple formats.
- Filter, hide, and group data
as you like it.
- Add logos and graphics for
formal reports.
6. Get the benefits of centralized information
Need to generate custom sales reports? Send financials to your
accounting program? Or sell through an e-commerce storefront?
Microsoft Retail Management System Store Operations can help
deliver.
Built on the latest Microsoft technologies, this integrated
solution keeps information moving smoothly across your entire
business and connects easily with other applications, platforms,
and peripherals. Here are a few ways it can help:
- Microsoft Retail Management
System can be integrated with legacy systems, accounting or
financial software, Electronic Draft
- Capture (EDC), credit card
services, and e-commerce storefronts.
- Make in-store traffic, catalog
sales, and phone and e-commerce orders feed each other ? all with
the help of a Microsoft partner and third-party
solutions.
- Manage accounts receivable,
then trade point-of-sale data with popular accounting software to
eliminate double entry.
- Use EDC and integrate with
leading credit card services to reduce fraud and keyboard
errors.
- Integrate Web sales from
multiple sites with the help of a Microsoft partner and a
third-party application,
- Use the Microsoft Retail
Management System POS as a data collector for back-end
Electronic Retail Planning (ERP)/Customer Relationship Management
(CRM) applications.
- Enable PDA and mobile/wireless
stations with the help of your Microsoft partner.
- Ship and track orders
online.
7. Grows with your business
Ready to open a new store? You can help protect your investment
and keep the same software and systems as your business grows into
multiple stores and retail channels with Microsoft Retail
Management System. Here are a few things to keep in mind:
- You can add new lanes or
stores to your system with minimal disruptions to retail
service.
- A common point-of-sale
platform that spans single or multi-store locations is offered
through Microsoft Retail Management System.
- Add customers and products to your
system, and flexible Microsoft SQL Server technologies let you
store and manage virtually unlimited amounts of
information.
- Invest in your business, not in IT
support. Microsoft Retail Management System does not require an
expensive IT staff to set up and maintain, and it adapts to meet
specific retail needs. As your business changes and grows, your
Microsoft Certified Business Solutions Partner can provide support
and assistance with customizing, integrating, and scaling your
solution.
- Count on Microsoft. Start a
long-lasting relationship backed by one of the world's leading
technology providers. Microsoft Business Solutions is a family of
connected applications and services for small and mid-sized
businesses, with years of experience delivering business
applications and services known worldwide for top
quality.
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