The ease of use of producing enquiry information whilst working with pop up enquiry screens , without having to change program
Trace if product sales have gone through the till, even whilst the customer is still there
Find older invoices over several tills and several days
Product finder without cost prices but with pictures
CAN I CHECK LAST YEAR TO SEE WHAT I HAD BOUGHT OR HAD STOCK OF THEN?
A more intense look at say the whole of last year buying, stocking, and sell pattern would be done using the general enquiry screens which specifically show this detail over a longer period of time.
CAN I TRACE BACK ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS IF I SEE PROBLEMS TO SEE WHO , WHEN AND WHY THEY HAPPENED
As each of the audits above will have originated from some part of the system then by keeping the original document or transaction reference an audit trail back to the original is available. Having located the original the being sales invoice, order, goods inwards then it can be enquired on or reprinted.
HOW HAS RECENT PERFORMANCE BEEN LAST WEEK OR PERIOD?
The sales are kept as their original transactions per day , but to locate the sales total for a product per week or period would mean trawling through all previous sales to arrive at these totals. The system therefore stores a summary position for each full year of sales per product for 14 days, 53 weeks and 13 periods with a year to date total. This makes sales enquiries quick and allows for week on week or period on period comparisons.
CAN I CHECK WHICH ITEMS CAME FROM WHICH SUPPLIER?
the original deliveries obviously show when suppliers brought stock in and provided that there is only one supplier of the product then no problem. Where there are more than one product the deliveries still show separately but stock on sale and counting all gets merged together if fifo stock taking is used then based on delivery dates then the oldest stock is used first and this is assumed to be the supplier allocated to the sale. The stock audit will hold a record of deliveries and as such is useful in tracing suppliers delivery and performance against orders
AN I CONFIRM SUPPLIER PRICES TO SEE WHO IS MY PREFERRED SOURCE TO BUY FROM
there is the support of multiple supplier buy prices, and these are maintained as last cost of that supplier the important thing is to see these supplier prices at the time of maintenance or ordering to see who is your best supplier and hence preferred