BACK OFFICE - Reports
The information collected by the tills mainly but also other parts of the system is what you introduce epos for. The information is stored by date and totally up so that all you have to do is look back using the reporting pack of 150 plus different reports.
The reports are offered in different sections to cover the difference purposes like price lists, tills sales , group totals and margins, stock counts and valuations, best and worst sellers, this versus last or branch versus branch comparisons, promotion performance and many many more.
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- Data is stored and available in real time from the tills
- Totals available by day, week, period, year
- Over 160 standard reports available as standard
- Export data to excel for further analysis or distribution
- Reports designed for different levels of user
The figures and the stored reports they produce are only poosible because they are collected by the whole of the epos system.
The fact that they are available in real time makes the decision making more timely
The data of prevous years allows for comparison figures to be produced
The reports can be distrubuted as excel spreadsheet or pdf document
HOW DOES IT INCREASE MY SALES ?
You need to read the benefits section, but mostly by checking the margin being made between cost and actual sell price. You can also find the best and worst sellers and clear bad stock and buy better stock.
CAN IT SHOW WHICH DEPARTMENTS ARE OVERSTOCKED OR UNDER STOCKED ?
The stock can be valued at both cost and retail selling price allowing margin to be calculated if sold.
The average week sale can be divided into this stock figure to see how many weeks of stock holding you have and need.
FIND WHICH LINES NEED TO BE REDUCED ?
Valuations by age of stock based on goods inwards date or date of last sale can be used to find which products to delist or promote to clear.
WHICH DEPARTMENTS/GROUPS ARE SELLING AND MAKING THE REQUIRED MARGIN ?
After each sale the value of quantity sold, sales , vat,cost , discount , promotional and loyalty values get stored at department/group and sub group level. The stored totals show the actual margin made versus the target margin and can be drilled down by department into group or sub group and then down to line level.
ARE THE BIGGEST SELLERS BY QUANTITY MAKING THE BIGGEST PR0FIT ?
If sales are ranked on quantity alone then this may not show where the profit is being made. The information can identify the top or bottom sellers and also the slow movers need clearing to raise money to buy better performing stock to sell. This is called the 80/20 rule in that 80% of profit comes from 20% of the lines typically
HOW DO SALES THIS COMPARE TO LAST YEAR ?
The sales history of each year are saved in separate yearly databases allowing year on year comparisons to be performed in enquiries and reports