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For specialty
beverage retailers
like you, success
depends on your
ability to keep your
shelves stocked with
fast-moving,
profitable items and
on keeping tight
control over your
supplier
relationships. Your
customers need to
know you have
products they want —
and that they won't
be waiting in long
checkout lines.
Microsoft Business
Solutions Retail
Management System
gives you a liquor
retail software
solution that
provides the
point-of-sale (POS)
and inventory
management tools you
need, so that you
can negotiate the
best prices and
stock your shelves
with profitable
items. Speed up
checkout lines —
even on Friday and
Saturday nights! —
so that customers
can focus on
shopping instead of
waiting to pay.
Specialty beverage
retailers can
benefit from the
liquor retail
software solution
from Microsoft
Business Solutions
Retail Management
System in the
following ways:
-
Simplify
inventory
tracking.
Your
beer-wine-liquor
store has
hundreds of
items.
-
You need
to know
what's
selling
and what's
not, and
Microsoft
Retail
Management
System is
customized
to help you.
-
Work with
matrix and lot
matrix
methods
-
Process
credit and
debit cards
and complex
transactions
quickly and
seamlessly
Gain
control
of
products,
shelf
space,
suppliers
If you know which
items are moving and
which are not, you
can make profitable
ordering decisions
and build effective,
efficient supplier
relationships. You
can also:
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Establish
realistic
reorder
points
that help
keep you
from
overstocking
your shelves
with
products
that aren't
moving.
-
Easily
track and
manage hard
goods,
soft goods
and
convenience
items.
-
Create
customized
shelf tags.
-
Easily
produce gift
bundles
and holiday
packages.
-
Automate
your
calculation
for
inventory
replenishment
based on
accurate
reorder
point/restock
level or
quantity
sold.
-
Support
multiple
suppliers
for each
item.
-
Easily
create
purchase
orders
that reflect
matrices you
set up in
your system.
-
Track
inventory
with
specifics
such as
weighed,
measured or
by bin.
-
Simplify
inventory
tracking
with
serialized
items and
multiple
serial
numbers.
-
Put items
on backorder
for future
deliveries
from the
POS.
Give
customers
a great
shopping
experience
Your sales staff can
learn how to process
the most complex
transactions
seamlessly, and have
access to complete
customer information
that lets them sell
more effectively.
Microsoft Retail
Management System
also works with the
Microsoft Office
System, making it
easy to create and
deliver
communications that
connect you with
your best customers.
You can:
-
Quickly
access a
complete
history
of
purchases,
payments and
account
information
at the POS.
-
Capture,
show, or
hide
customer
contact and
demographics
on the POS
screen.
-
Build
rapport
— and
up-sells —
using
customers'
buying
histories.
-
Accommodate
partial
payments
and account
payments.
And suggest
relevant
up-sells,
sale items,
and volume
discounts.
-
Reprint
electronic
receipts
to resolve
disputes,
speed
rebates, and
verify
purchase
dates and
amounts.
-
Accept
multiple
tenders,
credit and
debit cards,
coupons,
gift
vouchers,
and foreign
currencies.
-
Grant
automatic
discounts
and
differential
pricing to
special
customers.
-
Target
your
mailings
directly
to
customers'
special
interests.Sell
even when
your network
is down.
-
Serve
others while
keeping a
stalled
transaction
"on
hold."Handle
work orders,
backorders,
layaways,
and quotes.
-
Customize
receipts and
price labels
with logos
and
promotional
messages.
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.
Improve
employee
productivity
Jump-start
productivity with a
solution that's easy
to learn and use,
yet lets you
maintain tight
control over
information and
inventory to protect
data and reduce
theft.
-
Employees
can learn
basic POS
functions in
minutes.
-
Lock out
— or empower
— any
employee's
access to
sensitive
data.
-
Reduce
shrinkage
by
automating
inventory
management.
-
View and
print daily
sales reports
and journals
at the POS
terminal.
-
Know
which
employee
sells best.
-
Predict
what days
and hours to
staff up
— or cut
back.
Use
customizable
management tools
Get help managing
every aspect of your
store. Along with
automating the POS
and inventory,
Microsoft Retail
Management System
lets you set up
pricing levels and
promotions the way
you want.
-
Configure
POS
screens
to
display
exactly
the
information
your
clerks
need.
-
Use
flexible
pricing
structures
for
markups
and
discounts.
Set
up
new
sales
and
promotions
—
fast.
-
Streamline
buying
with
ordering
levels,
best-price
suppliers,
and
automatic
POS.
-
Make
wizards
do
your
work.
It
takes
just
minutes
to
input
new
items,
manage
inventory
and
perform
everyday
chores.
-
Have
built-in
security
features
based
on
your
cashiers'
security
levels.
Data
fields
can
be
hidden,
view-only,
or
changeable.
Get
quick,
comprehensive
reports
Take the
lead in your
relationships
with your
distributors.
With
accurate,
timely data
about sales,
profitability,
inventory
and
customers,
you can know
exactly
what's
selling
best, who's
buying, and
when. Decide
on a dime
what to buy
or mark
down; and
track return
on
investment (ROI)
for
marketing
initiatives.
-
Generate
sales
and
inventory
reports
to
help
you
decide
what
products
you
want
to
order
from
distributors.
-
Track
return
on
investment
from
your
ads,
mailings,
promotions,
sales,
and
discounts.
review,
print,
or
export
data
in
multiple
formats.
-
Add
logos
and
graphics
to
formal
reports.
Get the
benefits of
centralized
information
Want to send
financials to your
accounting program?
Or sell through an
e-commerce
storefront?
Microsoft Retail
Management System
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, such as
Microsoft Office.
The solution:
-
Works
with
the
Microsoft
Office
System,
making
it
easy
to
create
and
deliver
communications
that
connect
you
with
your
best
customers.
-
Can
be
integrated
with
legacy
systems,
accounting
or
financial
software,
Electronic
Draft
Capture
(EDC),
credit
card
services,
and
e-commerce
storefronts
—
with
the
help
of a
Microsoft
partner
and
third-party
solutions.
-
It
also
can
be
integrated
with
all
your
business
channels
—
in-store,
catalog,
phone
and
e-commerce
— to
provide
a
superior
customer
experience.
-
You
can
ship
and
track
orders
online.
-
Manages
accounts
receivable
and
it
trades
summary
POS
data
with
popular
accounting
software
to
eliminate
double
entry.
-
Uses
EDC
to
integrate
with
leading
credit
card
services
to
reduce
fraud
and
keyboard
errors.
-
Smoothly
integrates
Web
sales
from
multiple
sites
with
the
help
of a
Microsoft
partner
and
a
third-party
application.
-
Uses
the
POS
as a
data
collector
for
back-end
Electronic
Retail
Planning
(ERP)/Customer
Relationship
Management
(CRM)
applications.
-
You
can
also
work
with
a
Microsoft
partner
to
set
up
your
system
to
enable
PDA
and
mobile/wireless
stations.
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.
-
Count
on
Microsoft.
Start
a
long-lasting
relationship
backed
by
one
of
the
world's
leading
technology
providers.
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