With over 740,000 Sage customers in the UK the network of people using and gaining the full benefit of Sage systems is growing. Pythagoras, one of the UK’s leading Sage business partners’ looks at Sage 200’s benefits for the retail industry.
Sage 200 Wholesale and Retail can help overcome a retailers business issues in the following ways:
• Time saving – automated routines and touch screen terminals with automated transaction updates and product look-ups
• Cost saving – addressing your business issues quickly and helping reduce inefficiencies, to deliver rapid ROI
• Security – by controlling everything from prices, credit authorisation, merchandising, reordering, etc. providing you with the assurance that your business is protected whenever you’re away on business or holiday
• Price pressures – helping cut operational costs across your business and driving sales and stock rotation so you can increase the value of each sale and stay ahead of the competition
• Reporting – providing management with insight into the decision-making needed to run an efficient operation
Furthermore, with the retail sector being fiercely competitive the streamlining of all business processes and the 360 degree view given by Sage 200 from initial product buying through distribution , marketing, sales and reporting fully optimises businesses, giving a vital competitive edge over competitors not using Sage in retail.
The merchandise management system within Sage 200 Wholesale and Retail contains some of the following features which can help take your retail capabilities to the next level:
• Company Hierarchy: The ability to map your logistical structure and support the way you operate is vital to a company’s efficiency and productivity
• Merchandise Hierarchy: Similar to company hierarchy; applies to product ranges, styles, colours and seasons of product (e.g. summer & winter ranges)
• Promotions Management: Enables you to increase stock and manage stock levels across 1 or multiple stores during promotional periods where demand is generally greater for those individual products. Being able to manage this across all stores allows brand and product consistency across all stores.
• Allocations and dispatch: Allocations to stores can be controlled as or when your hierarchy dictates. A simple process which allows control over stock movements.
• Drill downs: Key business information and the ability to drill down as far as transaction level to view information is available.
• Budgetary control: The ability to view graphically your budgets and there performance against live actuals. Furthermore, with the ability to drill down on up to five years of data trends and market movements can be more easily identified and changes can be made accordingly.
Overall, using Sage 200 in retail will enable your business to go to the next level and potentially gain an important competitive edge over your competition. For more information on Pythagoras and how our expertise in Sage 200 software can benefit your business please call 01628 519000 or email info@pythagoras.co.uk.
Pythagoras is an experienced business solutions provider for Sage 200 and Microsoft CRM with offices in Maidenhead, London and Manchester. More than 350 Sage customers nationwide have discovered how Pythagoras’s expertise adds value to their business. These are drawn from a diverse range of sectors and markets and we have specialist teams with specific expertise in each.
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