Sporting goods retailers: Microsoft Retail
MS helps you keep a lean inventory, build customer loyalty for
peak performance.
Keeping your sporting goods business
in top condition means you'll need a lean, fast-moving inventory
and cost-effective relationships with suppliers. You also need
the power to serve customer needs - whether you're responding
to special orders or processing transactions at top speed.
Microsoft Business Solutions Retail
Management System gives sporting goods retailers momentum to
help compete effectively. Easy to install and use, this flexible,
affordable point of sale (POS) solution helps you manage all
aspects of your inventory with pinpoint accuracy.
Among other things, you can:
- Manage a large range of inventory items
— with ease. Keep track of every item — from basketballs
and racing bikes to clothing. You'll know their warrantee
requirements, and you can track and manage hard goods, soft
goods, non-inventory labor codes. Make better buying decisions
based on inventory records.
- Keep customers and employees happy
with fast item lookups. Speed checkout processes and deliver
specialized customer service.
Keep customers
and employees happy with fast item lookups. Speed checkout processes
and deliver specialized customer service.
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Here's a checklist of seven, key benefits for
gift and hobby store retailers from Microsoft Retail Management
System.
1. Better inventory management
- Work with matrices in up to three dimensions,
such as size, color, and brand.
- Simplify inventory tracking of serialized
items with up to three unique serial numbers per item.
- Use aliases to expedite item lookups by
supplier part number, UPC, or abbreviated nicknames.
- Quickly identify inventory replenishment
based on reorder point/restock level or quantity sold.
- Reduce physical inventory counts, too!
2. Give customers a great
shopping experience
Your sales clerks can process complex transactions
more quickly and accurately — which pleases customers. They'll
also have access to complete customer information and buying histories
that helps them sell more effectively.
- Instantly access a complete history of purchases,
payments, and account information at the POS. Capture and show
customer contact and demographics on the POS screen.
- Reprint electronic receipts to resolve disputes,
speed rebates, and verify purchase dates and amounts. Accommodate
partial and full account payments. Serve others while keeping
a stalled transaction "on hold."
- Leverage customers' buying histories to
easily market to their preferences, suggest relevant up-sells,
sale items, and volume discounts. Grant automatic discounts
and differential pricing to special customers.
- Target your mailings directly to customers'
special interests.
- Accept multiple tenders, credit and debit
cards, coupons, gift vouchers, and foreign currencies. Continue
to process transactions even when your network is down.
- Handle work orders, backorders, layaways,
and quotes.
- Support multiple suppliers for each item.
3. Improve employee productivity
Jump-start productivity with a solution that's easy
to learn and use, and lets you maintain tight control over information
and inventory to protect data and reduce theft.
- Employees can learn basic POS functions in
minutes.
- Lock out — or empower — an employee from
sensitive data.
- View and print daily sales reports and
journals at the POS terminal.
- Manage ad hoc commissions and "spiffs."
- Know which associates sell best. Predict
what days and hours to staff up — or cut back.
- Automate inventory management to
reduce shrinkage.
4. Use customizable management
tools
Get help managing every aspect of your store. Along
with automating the POS and inventory, Microsoft Retail Management
System lets you set up pricing levels and promotions the way you
want.
- Configure POS screens to display exactly
the information your clerks need.
- Use flexible pricing structures for markups
and discounts.
- Set up new sales and promotions — fast.
- Streamline buying with ordering levels,
best-price suppliers, and automatic POS.
- Make wizards do your work. It takes just
minutes to input new items, manage inventory and perform everyday
chores.
- Have built-in security features based
on your cashiers' security levels. Data fields can be hidden,
view-only, or changeable.
5. Get quick, comprehensive reports
Microsoft Retail Management System has more than
one hundred reports with extensive formatting options so you
get the information the way that makes sense to you.
Stay on top of performance with accurate, timely
data about sales, profitability, inventory, and customers. Know
exactly what's selling best, who's buying, and when. Decide
on a dime what to buy or mark down, and track return on investment
(ROI) for marketing initiatives. Do analysis by department or
category, too!
Here are a few examples:
- Easily export data to Microsoft Excel
for viewing and analysis.
- Generate sales and inventory reports
that help make it easy to decide what to buy or mark down.
- Track return on investment from your ads,
mailings, promotions, sales, and discounts.
- Preview, print, or export data in multiple
formats.
- Add logos and graphics for formal reports.
6. Get benefits
of centralized information
Want to send financials to your accounting program?
Or sell through an e-commerce storefront? Microsoft Retail Management
System can help.
Built on the latest Microsoft technologies, this
integrated solution keeps information moving smoothly across
your entire business and connects easily with other applications,
platforms, and peripherals, such as Microsoft Office. The solution:
- Works with the Microsoft Office System,
making it easy to create and deliver communications that connect
you with your best customers.
- Can be integrated with legacy systems, accounting
or financial software, Electronic Draft Capture (EDC), credit
card services, and e-commerce storefronts — with the help
of a Microsoft partner and third-party solutions. It also
can be integrated with all your business channels — in-store,
catalog, phone and e-commerce — to provide a superior customer
experience. You can ship and track orders online.
- Manages accounts receivable and it trades
summary POS data with popular accounting software to eliminate
double entry.
- Uses EDC to integrate with leading credit
card services to reduce fraud and keyboard errors.
- Smoothly integrates Web sales from multiple
sites with the help of a Microsoft partner and a third-party
application.
- Uses the POS as a data collector for
back-end Electronic Retail Planning (ERP)/Customer Relationship
Management (CRM) applications. You can also work with a Microsoft
partner to set up your system to enable PDA and mobile/wireless
stations.
7. Grows with your business
Ready to open a new store? You can help protect
your investment and keep the same software and systems as your
business grows into multiple stores and retail channels with Microsoft
Retail Management System. Here's a few things to keep in mind:
- You can add new lanes or stores to your
system with minimal disruptions to retail service.
- A common point-of-sale platform that spans
single or multi-store locations is offered through Microsoft
Retail Management System.
- Add customers and products to your system,
and flexible Microsoft SQL Server technologies let you store
and manage virtually unlimited amounts of information.
- Invest in your business, not in IT support.
Microsoft Retail Management System does not require an expensive
IT staff to set up and maintain, and it adapts to meet specific
retail needs. As your business changes and grows, your Microsoft
Certified Business Solutions Partner can provide support and
assistance with customizing, integrating, and scaling your solution.
- Count on Microsoft. Start a long-lasting
relationship backed by one of the world's leading technology
providers. Microsoft Business Solutions is a family of connected
applications and services for small and mid-sized businesses,
with years of experience delivering business applications and
services known worldwide for top quality.
Want
an affordable software/hardware solution bundle for sporting goods
retailers?
To smooth your transition to an automated, point-of-sale
solution, Microsoft Retail Management System is now offering retail
bundles. The bundles are all-in-one software/hardware solutions
tailored for sporting good retailers.
Learn more about the bundles.
Besides Microsoft Retail Management System, version
1.3, the deluxe bundle for sporting goods features:
- A fully-enclosed point-of-sale unit. This
special unit prevents the need for venting and water resistance.
It's a great feature for busy sporting goods stores where accidental
water spills can happen by well-meaning staff members.
- High-end trigger scanners. This scanner
has a cord extension to allow for easy reaching over the counter
to scan merchandise.
- Top-quality thermal receipt printer. It
also has a small footprint to help with space management at
the point-of-sale area.
Overall, the deluxe bundled solution for beer, wine
and liquor retailers includes the following hardware: A retail-hardened
point-of-sale computer terminal with moisture-resistant LCD touch
screen, keyboard, receipt printer, cash drawer, line display and
barcode scanner.
Already have some of the hardware components? Great.
Contact Red River POS
about how to incorporate Microsoft Retail Management System. A
Microsoft Certified Partner will work with you to purchase and
install Microsoft Retail Management System. Easy to install and
use, Microsoft Retail Management System can be up and running
quickly, without disrupting business operations.
You and your employees can learn
POS processes in minutes, not days — so there's no need to worry
about making the transition from traditional cash registers.
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