Sage 200 Wholesale & Retail
Sage 200 Wholesale and Retail helps control the whole retailing process from buying stock, booking it in across multiple locations and branches, marketing and selling it and reporting on your business performance.
Sage 200 Wholesale and Retail also integrates with Sage 200 Point of Sale, Sage's EPoS software, giving you a complete retail solution.
The software enhances the stock management functionality of the Sage 200 Suite with the introduction of the merchandise heirarchy.
Features and Benefits
Company hierarchy. As a business grows it becomes more expansive and its structure gains in complexity, especially as new branches are opened. Sage 200 Retail and Wholesale enables you to map your logistical structure within the software to support the way you operate.
They may then define up to nine levels of store hierarchy, allowing the maintenance of store details to facilitate replenishment. This defines each store location, enabling stock levels to be replenished by easily allocating and distributing products.
Merchandise hierarchy. This works in a similar manner to the company hierarchy and can be produced to match the way your products are structured across your company.
At ‘Stock item’ levels, in-built ‘Product Matrix’ technology can be utilised, offering the flexibility to structure a product that has ‘variants’ associated to it, such as size-colour-style. We call these ‘Dimensions.’ The products can be grouped flexibly across a matrix, depending on what suits you best.
Promotions management. This enables you to increase stock turnover with special offers such as ‘3 for 2’ and ‘buy one get one free’. Customers expect consistency across a network of branches for the same company, so Sage 200 Wholesale and Retail supports this with company wide promotions that can be set up centrally.
Nominated buyers can be assigned to any given promotion and different reward types can be offered, such as a discount, within a defined time line.
Purchase orders. Setting up and processing purchase orders is made as easy as possible, providing all the information needed so you can quickly and accurately replenish stock wherever it’s needed. You can simply drag and drop items into a purchase order from the merchandise hierarchy that you’ve defined. If you have set parameters such as a rule dictating that even quantities of a certain range should be replenished, then this can be accounted for too. Entering a total quantity of any item would split this quantity evenly across the product variant range.
Sales orders. Sales orders can be processed in exactly the same manner. The drag and drop facility is particularly popular in telesales environments when speed of processing is important because customers should not be expected to be kept waiting whilst requesting a list of items they want. The systems also accounts for multiple currencies if trading with companies or customers abroad. As you would expect, all existing quantities of stock are on hand at any given time.
Allocations and despatch. Allocations and despatches can be controlled between warehouses and stores, as your hierarchy dictates. Once the stock has been allocated, the system will print picking lists for each store and despatch notes can then be produced. A very simple process which ensures total control over stock movements.
Budgetary control. A key strength of Sage 200 Wholesale and Retail is its advanced budgetary control plus its ability to analyse the performance of cost centres and departments across your business. Analysis of budgets versus actuals can be viewed graphically, with the option of displaying up to five years of historical data, and the coming year’s budgets. By drilling down to the individual transactions you can easily see the detail behind those trends.
Analysis tools. Throughout the system, custom analysis codes allow you to ‘slice and dice’ information any way you want.
Report designer. Sage 200 Wholesale and Retail is supplied with over 250 ready-made reports covering all aspects of the system, plus a wide range of documents such as credit letters and invoice layouts for everyday use in your business.
You can easily customise these reports and documents or add new ones from scratch. New fields can be added using a wizard; you can add fields which calculate values ‘on the fly’, based on custom formulae. Logos and other graphics can easily be added to customise your reports and documents.
When you run a report, a powerful filter helps you select the information to be retrieved. This includes any appropriate custom analysis codes. For example, you could run a sales report based on a particular region or sales person. You can save particular ‘views’ for future use, and frequently used reports can be added to the Sage 200 menu for easy access.
Sales enquiries. Sage 200 Wholesale and Retail lets you take this reporting one step further. You can run sales reports across all the detail within the company and merchandise hierarchy. So you can compare sales by region, area or store, and by the departments and products within these.
Drill downs. Throughout the Sage 200 Suite, key business information is readily available. Intelligent drill downs allow you to view detailed information, to transaction level if required. Additionally you can drill across to view all related information.
For further information, please download:
Sage 200 Retail Suite brochure