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 Microsoft Retail Management System Headquarters is specially designed for those of you who have multiple stores and want to see what is happening throughout the entire store chain.
Microsoft Retail Management System Headquarters is Windows-based retail enterprise management software that integrates corporate home office, in-store back office and point-of-sale applications. Microsoft Retail Management System Headquarters enables expanding retailers to respond rapidly to consumer demands, proactively manage inventory and pricing, and control the entire value chain - from customers to suppliers - over all products in all regions.
Installed to run on a computer at the head office, Microsoft Retail Management System Headquarters will regularly upload the specified store's inventory movement, financial transactions and sales data, and organize it into a comprehensive all-knowing database. The head office can then manage all the sales data and produce powerful, flexible inventory, sales, and customer profile reports.
Microsoft Retail Management System Headquarters works in conjunction with Microsoft Retail Management System, which automates all back-office and POS activities. Building on its reputation for delivering faster sales, easier management and higher profits, the award-winning Microsoft Retail Management System software incorporates features (i.e. inter¬store inventory transfers) to work with Microsoft Retail Management System Headquarters.
The Microsoft Retail Management System product line gives retailers an integrated, enterprise-wide, point-of-sale and retail management solution that allows small to mid-sized retail chains to take advantage of low prices, technical innovations in software, commodity hardware and Internet-enabling technologies.
For detailed information, visit the Microsoft Retail Management System Headquarters features page.
How Microsoft Retail Management System Headquarters Works
The three required Microsoft Retail Management System components that enable you to successfully manage your
multi-store operations are:
- Microsoft Retail Management System
- Microsoft Retail Management System Remote Communications
- Microsoft Retail Management System Headquarters
This simple, but powerful software architecture allows you to easily grow from a single store to dozens or hundreds without integration and training headaches.
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Microsoft Retail Management System
Microsoft Retail Management System operates at each store in the retail enterprise and maintains sales data in a local database. The software automates the store's back-office operations (managing inventory, controlling pricing, tracking customers, etc.) and handles all sales transactions at the checkout terminals.
Key information contained in the Microsoft Retail Management System database is regularly uploaded to the head office. At the same time, Microsoft Retail Management System Headquarters downloads the changes made at the head office to the store's database.
Microsoft Retail Management System Communications
The Microsoft Retail Management System RemoteTM software component handles communications and data exchange between the headquarters database and the retail store(s). This program automatically initiates a connection to the head office based on the schedule specified by Microsoft Retail Management System Headquarters. You can run this program on the back office computer at the store, or on any computer that has a LAN access to the store database and a modem to connect to the head office. For more information, refer to the Retail Management System Remote Communications page.
Microsoft Retail Management System Headquarters
Microsoft Retail Management System Headquarters ties all the data from all your stores together. It enables you to set policies and procedures for each store to follow and enforces those rules for the entire retail enterprise.
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Embraced by numerous companies around the world, Microsoft Retail Management System Headquarters offers retailers:
Features designed specifically for dynamic and growing companies
Integrated point-of-sale and retail management functions for multi-stores
Pre-packaged solution for low license costs and rapid investment returns
Customizable features to meet individual needs
Open access to all retail information stores in a Microsoft SQL Server database
Supported data warehousing capabilities
Accurate, up-to-date data for online analytical processing (OLAP)
Support for virtually all of Retail Management System data communications between the head office and stores using a dial-up, virtual private network (VPN) over the Internet, LAN and WAN
Use of the Internet or dial-up phone lines that slash communications costs
Microsoft Headquarters Features
Microsoft Retail Management System Headquarters employs the world’s most open and widely used Microsoft development tools to ensure an economical, pre-packaged, fully scalable retail solution.
The Microsoft Retail Management System Headquarter software's features cater to the needs of nearly every retail enterprise in the hard goods, soft goods (apparel), and convenience store industries.
With Microsoft Retail Management System Headquarter, all those important and necessary tasks that guarantee an effective management system will now become easier, faster, and more efficient:
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Inventory Control / Tracking
Microsoft Retail Management System Headquarters controls and tracks inventory at each store and for the entire enterprise. Detailed information on quantity in stock, reorder point and restock levels for each item at each store are available at the home office. Automatic inventory replenishment can be performed at the home office for all retail stores, or individually at each store if so desired.
For centrally managed operations, the master inventory database for the enterprise can be set up using Microsoft Retail Management System Headquarters and transferred to remote stores. Information on item types, departments, categories, suppliers, substitutes, aliases, parent relationships, etc., can be replicated to all stores for consistent stock identification. Sales tax rates can be programmed individually by stores to accommodate local regulations.
Microsoft Retail Management System Headquarters allows item stock transfers among the remote stores. An inventory transfer log is created to keep track of inventory movements among locations. Selected stores can be designated as the warehouses where inventory can be received and redistributed.
Purchase Orders
Microsoft Retail Management System Headquarters’ purchase order feature can identify what should be purchased, record what has been purchased, print purchase orders and handle receiving of orders for the enterprise or individual stores. It can automatically generate purchase orders based on quantity sold during a selected period, for items that fall below their restocking levels or for selected items.
Pricing/Sales/Promotions
Item prices can be changed at the home office and downloaded to specified store(s). The Sales/Promotions feature allows selected items to be put on sale across the whole enterprise. From the home office, special pricing can be programmed for selected items, categories or departments during promotion periods and then broadcast to all stores.
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Sales Tracking
Microsoft Retail Management System Headquarters maintains every sales transaction made at each store. For each transaction, detailed information, such as invoice number, date, IDs of items sold, as-sold prices, tax collected, customer 10, cashier 10 and sales rep 10, is transferred from the store and recorded in the Microsoft Retail Management System Headquarter database. For serialized and matrix items, the serial number sold or matrix type is also recorded. This allows reconstruction of any transaction made at any store and permits the generation of detailed sales and profit analysis, sales commission and tax reports. This comprehensive POS data collection is built-in to support data warehousing and OLAP.
Customer Management And Marketing
Microsoft Retail Management System Headquarters can keep a complete profile of each customer that has ever visited any store. This includes demographics, preferences, purchase history, account balance and credit information. Customer buying habits, frequency and purchase amounts are readily available at the home office. The data collected is designed to support accurate database marketing and relationship selling to targeted customers.
Employee Management
Microsoft Retail Management System Headquarters keeps records on all cashiers and sales reps employed at the stores. Microsoft Retail Management System Headquarters allows uploading of cashier attendance records from the stores for computing hours and labor cost. Sales commissions can be centrally computed at the home office based on transaction data and commission structures from sales rep profiles.
Powerful, Flexible Reports
Microsoft Retail Management System Headquarters’ powerful report generator offers instant, flexible access to a wealth of meaningful data. With the point-and-click speed, consolidated reports can be generated for the enterprise to obtain instant sales analysis, identify slow-moving items and see sales for any day, by store locations, items, departments, categories, customers or taxes. Reports and graphs may be previewed on screen, printed or exported to other Windows-based software packages.
Online Help System
The Microsoft Retail Management System Headquarters offers a comprehensive on-line help system. It essentially contains the same information presented in the Microsoft Retail Management System Headquarters User's Guide, providing a quick reference for procedures, keystroke sequences, worksheets, and commands.
In summary, Microsoft Retail Management System Headquarters does just about everything for you. The software will regularly upload stores' inventory movement, financial transactions and sales data, and organize that information into a comprehensive all-knowing database at the head office. The Microsoft Retail Management System Headquarters user is then able to track and analyze all the data pulled from all the store and produce powerful inventory, sales, and customer profile reports.
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