Retail STAR® Demo

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• Purchasing/Receiving
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Purchasing and Receiving

Perpetual inventory starts with the creation of a purchase order. During this process, Retail STAR® offers you a tremendous amount of flexibility in searching for and organizing your inventory information, which often times deals with multiple sizes, colors, and stores on a single purchase order.

Sample Purchase Order Screen. It shows how easily you can create a PO with one screen.  

Sample Receiving Screen which effeciently receives your PO.

Both in purchasing and throughout the system, the user can select the question mark or the drop-down menu key to see a list of available choices. They can then select from the list or add new items (such as vendors, departments, size runs, and inventory classifications). This one-key lookup feature makes Retail STAR® very easy to use. When ordering items, there is a two-dimensional size grid, which can also include color and store. Some industry experts would refer to this as a four-dimensional grid. We prefer to think of it as a two-dimensional size grid with optional color and store components.

When creating new inventory items that have multiple sizes, Retail STAR® can employ a single SKU (Style) structure, or you can set up your system to assign a separate SKU automatically for each product. You can also make up your own SKU or item numbers. Whether you choose the single SKU approach or assign separate SKU numbers for each size, in no case does the system unnecessarily duplicate information. An item that comes in 100 sizes and has the same vendor, description, department, etc., would only have this information stored in the database once, rather than 100 times. This is a by-product of our "relational" database design.

Receiving can be done manually or automatically by exception. Hand-held PDTs (Portable Data Terminals) may be used for receiving, and conducting physical inventories.

Price tags can be generated in any size, shape, or color, with any information the user desires. Store logos or other graphical information may be easily included by scanning them into the system. Retail STAR® supports any printer that offers a Windows printer driver.

   

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